The Sunday Times bestselling tour-de-force from the author of The Lost Words and The Old Ways - an unmissable journey into the hidden worlds beneath our feet.
Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Karine Polwart and Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums, Lost In The Cedar Wood (2021) and The Moon Also Rises (2023). In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2022 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is currently completing his third book with Jackie Morris- The Lost Birds.
a brilliant, thrilling, terrifying work of literature, making me
want to think more adventurously and live more deeply.
*Amy Liptrot*
All Macfarlane's books are urgings to take a closer look at the
environment we live in, and at the natural world especially. They
are perception-shifters. And with its darker, delving subject
matter counter-weighing its lyricism, Underland is a magnificent
feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuinely
frontier-pushing, unsettling and exploratory
*Evening Standard*
Robert Macfarlane is a magician with words. In Underland he shows
us how to see in the dark. His writing is like a vortex... Once
caught, you're pulled deeper and deeper with each page
*Andrea Wulf, best-selling author of 'The Invention of Nature'*
Devastating, lyrical, blazingly vivid... An examination of the
darknesses invisible beneath our feet. The book's great power comes
from Macfarlane's deliberate turn away from despair and toward a
deliberate, loving, and luminous sense of awe
*Lauren Groff*
Robert Macfarlane's writing reminds us of the astonishing variety
of things you can see when you go at walking speed, and of how
strange and rich the world is
*Philip Pullman*
The great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation
*Wall Street Journal*
Exquisite. [Robert Macfarlane] evokes so vividly places to which I
and probably you will never go, and at the eeriness of the places
themselves and the sense of vast scale they restore to us at a time
when it can feel like the world has shrunken around us
*Rebecca Solnit*
An epic descent into a series of underground and underwater
landscapes
*Financial Times*
Beautifully written and wise, this haunting book is a treasure...
It reads like a seamless dive, crawl, and trek through deep time,
in sense-rich landscapes, accompanied by fascinating views of the
human saga. Its unique spell is irresistible
*Diane Ackerman*
Beautifully and bravely balanced... This is a radical book in every
sense. It goes as deep as it can, unafraid of the risk that what it
finds will turn everything on its head
*The Oldie*
Thrilling and soulful, raw and erudite. Robert Macfarlane writes of
his astonishing subterranean explorations with wondrous, indelible
power... Underland is a profound reckoning with humankind's
self-imperiled position in nature's eternal order. It is a book of
revelations
*Philip Gourevitch*
Robert Macfarlane has long provided us with some of the most
distinctive and sensitive thinking about how humans understand and
experience the terrestrial world. Underland [is] his most urgent,
universal, and expansive book yet
*Francisco Cantu*
What a total delight. Once again, so many enlivening encounters
along paths less frequently trod. Macfarlane remains our perfect
guide, reminding us there's so much in the world to wonder at
*Benedict Allen*
Eye-opening, lyrical and moving...capturing the poetry beneath the
science.
*Publisher's Weekly*
Underland is a startling and memorable book, charting invisible and
vanishing worlds. Macfarlane has made himself Orpheus, the poet who
ventures down to the darkest depths and returns - frighteningly
alone-to sing of what he has seen
*New Statesman*
You'd be crazy not to read this book
*The Sunday Times*
Marvellous... Neverending curiosity, generosity of spirit,
erudition, bravery and clarity... This is a book well worth
reading
*The Times*
Extraordinary... at once learned and readable, thrilling and
beautifully written
*Observer*
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