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Underland : a deep time journey / Robert Macfarlane.

Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- (author.).

Summary:

Robert Macfarlane is the best-selling, award-winning author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's memory, and the land itself. In this highly anticipated sequel to his international bestseller The Old Ways, Macfarlane 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 {28}deep time

Record details

ISBN: 9780393242140
ISBN: 0393242145
Physical Description: viii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-464) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

First chamber -- Descending -- Part I. Seeing (Britain) -- Burial (Mendips, Somerset) -- Dark matter (Boulby, Yorkshire) -- The understorey (Epping Forest, London) -- Second chamber -- Part II. Hiding (Europe) -- Invisible cities (Paris) -- Starless rivers (The Carso, Italy) -- Hollow land (Slovenian highlands) -- Third chamber -- Part III. Haunting (The north) -- Red dancers (Lofotens, Norway) -- The edge (And©ıya, Norway) -- The blue of time (Kulusuk, Greenland) -- Meltwater (Knud Rasmussen Glacier, Greenland) -- The hiding place (Olkiluoto, Finland) -- Surfacing.