Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Underland is a Sunday Times Bestseller, Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2019, and Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2020. It is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future, written by Robert Macfarlane, one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 496 pages
Publication date: 27 August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

A captivating gift for the adventurous soul in your life, penned by one of the most celebrated and adored nature writers of our time, the internationally bestselling, award-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words, and The Old Ways. A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020. You would be foolish not to immerse yourself in this captivating masterpiece. The Sunday Times, A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century. In Underland, Robert Macfarlane transports us on a mesmerizing journey beneath our feet. From the icy depths of Greenland's glaciers to the underground networks through which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea caves, this is a profound exploration of the planet's past and future. Global in its scope, gripping in its voice, and haunting in its implications, Underland is a remarkable addition to Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart. SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020. Macfarlane has reinvented the book, truly creating a new genre altogether. The Irish Times, He is the preeminent nature writer and nature poet of our generation. Wall Street Journal, Macfarlane has demonstrated how a brilliantly written travel book can still be utterly captivating. Observer, on The Old Ways. Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder, few books evoke such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to gift to many and to revisit repeatedly. Independent, on Landmarks. It sets the imagination alight, like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems. The Sunday Times, on The Old Ways.

Weight: 404g
Dimension: 129 x 195 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780141030579