Underland: A Deep Time Journey

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Price
$17.95  $16.69
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
Pages
496
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.0 X 1.3 inches | 0.85 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393358094

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About the Author
Robert Macfarlane is the author of prizewinning and bestselling books about landscape, nature, people, and places, including The Lost Words and Underland. His work has been translated into many languages and his books have been widely adapted for film, television, stage, and radio. In 2017, he was awarded the EM Forster Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Reviews
Profound in every sense of the word.--Richard Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory
Reading Macfarlane connects us to dazzling new worlds. It's a connection that brings, more than anything else, joy.--Barbara J. King
One of the most ambitious works of narrative non-fiction of our age.--William Dalrymple
[Macfarlane] seems to metabolize landscape into lyrics as he walks.--Rachel Riederer
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
An excellent book--fearless and subtle, empathic and strange.--Dwight Garner
[Robert Macfarlane's] writing is luminous, intense....[B]rilliant notes from the underground.--Huw Lewis-Jones
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