Underland : a deep time journey /
Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-
Underland : a deep time journey / Under land. Robert Macfarlane. - First American edition. - viii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
First chamber -- Descending -- Seeing (Britain) -- Second chamber -- Hiding (Europe) -- Third chamber -- Haunting (The north).
In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: 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 future, from the prehistoric art of Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, from Bronze Age funeral chambers to the catacomb labyrinth below Paris, and from the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come.
9780393242140 0393242145
2019000216
Civilization, Subterranean.
Underground areas--History.
Voyages and travels.
Geology.
GN755 / .M295 2019
Underland : a deep time journey / Under land. Robert Macfarlane. - First American edition. - viii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
First chamber -- Descending -- Seeing (Britain) -- Second chamber -- Hiding (Europe) -- Third chamber -- Haunting (The north).
In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: 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 future, from the prehistoric art of Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, from Bronze Age funeral chambers to the catacomb labyrinth below Paris, and from the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come.
9780393242140 0393242145
2019000216
Civilization, Subterranean.
Underground areas--History.
Voyages and travels.
Geology.
GN755 / .M295 2019