Underland by Robert Macfarlane
National Bestseller • New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • NPR "Favorite Books of 2019" • Guardian "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" • Kirkus Reviews "Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)" • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award"Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times." —Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times Book Review
"Profound in every sense of the word" -- Richard Powers, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory
"An excellent book—fearless and subtle, empathic and strange." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times
"Reading Macfarlane connects us to dazzling new worlds. It’s a connection that brings, more than anything else, joy." -- Barbara J. King - NPR
"Remarkable…Underland may be [Macfarlane’s] masterpiece." -- Colin Thubron - New York Review of Books
"One of the most ambitious works of narrative non-fiction of our age." -- William Dalrymple - Guardian
"[Robert Macfarlane’s] writing is luminous, intense.…[B]rilliant notes from the underground." -- Huw Lewis-Jones - Nature
"[Macfarlane] seems to metabolize landscape into lyrics as he walks." -- Rachel Riederer - Outside
"Through this series of haunting descents, Macfarlane plumbs the strange and alarming ways we’ve changed the world and resurfaces with revelations about how to orient us to the future, weaving landscape and language together." -- Kate Yoder - Grist
"The most impressive exercise of imagination and scholarship I’ve come across lately.…A reader never will forget this journey through geologic time." -- Tony Norman - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"With Underland Macfarlane gives us a work of nature writing for the age—and for the ages. Its eloquent but urgent prose reveals our complex relationship with nature while pushing us to think more deeply about earth’s sublime underneath." -- Amy Brady - Gizmodo
"An excellent book—fearless and subtle, empathic and strange." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times
"Reading Macfarlane connects us to dazzling new worlds. It’s a connection that brings, more than anything else, joy." -- Barbara J. King - NPR
"Remarkable…Underland may be [Macfarlane’s] masterpiece." -- Colin Thubron - New York Review of Books
"One of the most ambitious works of narrative non-fiction of our age." -- William Dalrymple - Guardian
"[Robert Macfarlane’s] writing is luminous, intense.…[B]rilliant notes from the underground." -- Huw Lewis-Jones - Nature
"[Macfarlane] seems to metabolize landscape into lyrics as he walks." -- Rachel Riederer - Outside
"Through this series of haunting descents, Macfarlane plumbs the strange and alarming ways we’ve changed the world and resurfaces with revelations about how to orient us to the future, weaving landscape and language together." -- Kate Yoder - Grist
"The most impressive exercise of imagination and scholarship I’ve come across lately.…A reader never will forget this journey through geologic time." -- Tony Norman - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"With Underland Macfarlane gives us a work of nature writing for the age—and for the ages. Its eloquent but urgent prose reveals our complex relationship with nature while pushing us to think more deeply about earth’s sublime underneath." -- Amy Brady - Gizmodo
Robert Macfarlane’s best-selling books include Underland, The Old Ways, and Mountains of the Mind. With the artist Jackie Morris he is the coauthor of The Lost Words, The Lost Spells, and The Book of Birds. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature and the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence and is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393358094 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393358097 |
| Title | Underland |
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2020-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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