Underland. A Deep Time Journey
Macfarlane, Robert
Sold by Libris Books, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 25 June 2020
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Add to basketSold by Libris Books, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 25 June 2020
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketLondon. Hamish Hamilton/ Penguin Books. First Edition. Fifth printing. Hard Cover. Medium 8vo 9½" x 6 ? approx. 425 pp. Black publisher's boards with silver titles to the spine. The book is square and firmly bound. No previous ownership inscriptions or remainder marks. An attractive and unobtrusive paste down of a former owner to the front endpaper. Both endpapers decorated with rock photography. Other black and white reproductions in the text. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners and spine ends sharp. The pages and closed page edges are clean. The dust jacket is crisp and complete and unclipped at £20. The colours are bright, fresh and unfaded, corners and spine ends are sharp. What is charming about this book are the genuine paste down postage stamps. There is a UK 8 ½ p stamp to the title page 'Social Refomers; Thomas Bigham'. A further dark blue postage stamp to the chapter header Slovenian Highlands. To the title page of chapter 8 'Red Dancers, Norway' are two postage stamps from Norway and to the verso of that, a paste down map and information about Norway. To the verso of chapter 10, a paste down map of Greenland . There are two Finnish postage stamps pasted down to the chapter 'The Hiding Place' Finland. It is not known whether these are present just in the UK edition but they are genuine postage stamps and charming in that regard.
An epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, 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. Global in its geography and written with great lyricism and power, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. Taking a deep-time view of our planet, Macfarlane here asks a vital and unsettling question: Are we being good ancestors to the future Earth? Underland marks a new turn in Macfarlane's long-term mapping of the relations of landscape and the human heart.
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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019
WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2020
'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways
Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet...
In Underland, 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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020
'Underland is a magnificent feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuinely frontier pushing, unsettling and exploratory' Evening Standard
'Marvellous... Neverending curiosity, generosity of spirit, erudition, bravery and clarity... This is a book well worth reading' The Times
'Extraordinary... at once learned and readable, thrilling and beautifully written' Observer
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