Underland

A Deep Time Journey

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Beschreibung

<p><b>A beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today, </b><b>the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of <i>Landmarks, The Lost Words </i>and <i>The Old Ways</i></b><br><b><br>A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER</b><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020</b></p><p><b>'You'd be crazy not to read this book' <i>The Sunday Times</i></b></p><p><b>A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century</b></p><p>In <i>Underland</i>, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart.</p><p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020 </b><br><b><br>'Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book, really a new genre entirely'</b> <i>The Irish Times</i></p><p><b>'He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation'</b> <i>Wall Street Journal</i></p><p>'<b>Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be</b>' <i>Observer </i>on <i>The Old Ways</i></p><p><b>'Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder</b>... Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' <i>Independent </i>on <i>Landmarks</i></p><p><b>'It sets the imagination tingling</b>...like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' <i>The</i> <i>Sunday Times </i>on <i>The Old Ways</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780141030579

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

188 x 133 x 35 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)