Underland

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart.

A beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today, the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways.

Endorsements

A Sunday Times bestseller.

Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2019.

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2020.

'You'd be crazy not to read this book' — The Sunday Times.

A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century.

Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020.

'Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book, really a new genre entirely' — The Irish Times.

'He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation' — Wall Street Journal.

'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be' — Observer on The Old Ways.

'Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' — Independent on Landmarks.

'It sets the imagination tingling... like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' — The Sunday Times on The Old Ways.