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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Underland, Macfarland delivers an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds -- as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He 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...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane's distinctive voice,...
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