A Sunday Times bestseller. Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2019. Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of The Year award 2020. A guardian best book of the 21st century.
From the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old WaysIn 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.
'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.
'You'd be crazy not to read this book' - The Sunday Times.