In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the
Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the
land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic
time--from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of
the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk hiding place where nuclear waste
will be stored for 100,000 years to come--Underland takes us on an
extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and
what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind.
Global in its geography and written with great lyricism, Underland
speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent,
this is a book that will change the way you see the world.