Paperback, 496 pages
Published Aug. 17, 2020 by W. W. Norton & Company.
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from 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 100,000 years to come—Underland 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.
I am immensely envious that the author got to visit all these magnificent places and meet such remarkable people while doing so. I am also immensely grateful that the author captures it all so powerfully and poetically that I feel almost as if I was there, too.
