A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN
TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 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
'Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book really a new genre entirely' The Irish Times 'He
is the great nature writer and nature poet of this generation' Wall Street Journal
'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be'
Observer onThe Old Ways 'Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a
sense of enchantment it is a book to give to many and to return to repeatedly' Independent on
Landmarks 'It sets the imagination tingling...like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with
imagist poems' The Sunday Times onThe Old Ways
