hardcover, 496 pages
Published July 15, 2019 by Hamish Hamilton.
From the vast underground mycelial networks by which trees communicate to the ice-blue depths of glacial moulins, and from North Yorkshire to the Lofoten Islands, Robert Macfarlane traces a voyage through the worlds beneath our feet.
He reaches back into the deep history of the planet, through the layers of rock and ancient buried objects, and forward to the future, the legacy of the anthropocene and the world we bequeath our descendants.
Underland is Macfarlane at his dazzling best - the lyrical, the political and the philosophical come together in this profound exploration of the relationship between landscape and the human heart.
Periodic, tedious assertions built of an exclusionary “we” cluster beneath exhilarating blooms of micronarrative.
[Boonwurrung Country, 2 January 2022]
