num_pages: 496
description: In Underland Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earths underworlds as they exist in myth literature memory and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic timefrom prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap to a deep-sunk hiding place where nuclear waste will be stored for 100000 years to comeUnderland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness burial and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind.Global in its geography and written with great lyricism Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent this is a book that will change the way you see the world.
language: English
title: Underland: A Deep Time Journey
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company