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

Lyric and Thought Provoking

A climber talks of what lies beneath. This is not a geology book, but rather a book about us.

Tiring

So, generally speaking, this is a good book, and well-read.

However, I don’t know about you, but at times, I do get tired by yet another highly intelligent writer discovering things and flooding us with his creative awe-demanding findings and conclusions.

Maybe we should all just inspire our own awe just a bit more?

Stunningly beautiful

Take yourself on this journey. You will not regret it. And ,it will change your dreams for the better.

excellent

Fascinating information about topics I've never thought about!!! Makes you think at the same time it entertains you.

Meandering

This book had snippets of great writing that felt poorly stitched together. I often got lost as to where he was only to realize the book had gone off on another unrelated tanget. The narrator did a great job and kept me engaged enough to finish. Overall it was ok. Not bad not great.