Underland

A Deep Time Journey

De: Robert Macfarlane

Narrado por: Matthew Waterson

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this highly anticipated sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe to a post-human future, from the prehistoric art of Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, from Bronze Age funeral chambers to the catacomb labyrinth below Paris, and from the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come. Woven through Macfarlane's own travels are the unforgettable stories of descents into the underland made across history by explorers, artists, cavers, divers, mourners, dreamers, and murderers, all of whom have been drawn for different reasons to seek what Cormac McCarthy calls "the awful darkness within the world."

©2019 Robert Macfarlane (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Beautifully presented

This is a very engaging and beautifully narrated book about various under land worlds. The audiobook version is well performed.

The writing style is sublime.

I loved how arresting the word choice is and it was so full of interesting history and stories I couldn’t stop listening.

Meditative and Fascinating

There is a lot in this book. While it covers a wide range of topics built loosely around its central theme, there is a powerful center, the idea of impermanence and what we are to leave behind. I found this book to be incredibly fascinating. One of the best I've listened to this year.

I have a feeling I will be revisiting this very soon

Truly one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. I loved it so much, I bought the hard copy so I could hold it in my hands & keep it near.
Thank you, Robert.

Gripping and important read.

McFarland engages his readers with astonishing descriptions and insight. He takes us with him into the under land.