Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Autor Robert MacFarlaneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2020
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019
WINNER 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 ofLandmarks, The Lost WordsandThe Old Ways
Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet...
InUnderland, 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 howutterly beautifulabrilliantly written travel bookcan still be'ObserveronThe 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'IndependentonLandmarks
'It sets the imagination tingling...like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems'TheSunday TimesonThe Old Ways
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0141030577
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Robert Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and The Lost Words, co-created with Jackie Morris. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. The Lost Words won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times.
Recenzii
All Macfarlane's books are urgings to take a closer look at the environment we live in, and at the natural world especially.They are perception-shifters.And with its darker, delving subject matter counter-weighing its lyricism,Underlandis a magnificent feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuinely frontier-pushing, unsettling and exploratory
Robert Macfarlane is a magician with words. InUnderlandhe shows us how to see in the dark. His writing is like a vortex... Once caught,you're pulled deeper and deeper with each page
Devastating, lyrical,blazingly vivid...An examination of the darknesses invisible beneath our feet. The book's great power comes from Macfarlane's deliberate turn away from despair and towarda deliberate, loving, and luminous sense of awe
Robert Macfarlane's writing reminds us of the astonishing variety of things you can see when you go at walking speed, and of how strange and rich the world is
The great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation
Exquisite. [Robert Macfarlane] evokes so vividly places to which I and probably you will never go, and at the eeriness of the places themselves and the sense of vast scale they restore to us at a time when it can feel like the world has shrunken around us
An epic descent into a series of underground and underwater landscapes
Beautifully written and wise, this haunting book is a treasure...It reads like a seamless dive, crawl, and trek through deep time, in sense-rich landscapes, accompanied by fascinating views of the human saga. Its unique spell is irresistible
Beautifully and bravely balanced... This is a radical book in every sense.It goes as deep as it can, unafraid of the risk that what it finds will turn everything on its head
Thrilling and soulful, raw and erudite.Robert Macfarlane writes of his astonishing subterranean explorations with wondrous, indelible power...Underlandis a profound reckoning with humankind's self-imperiled position in nature's eternal order.It is a book of revelations
Robert Macfarlane has long provided us with some ofthe most distinctive and sensitivethinking about how humans understand and experience the terrestrial world.Underland[is]his most urgent, universal, and expansive book yet
What a total delight.Once again, so many enlivening encounters along paths less frequently trod.Macfarlane remains our perfect guide, reminding us there's so much in the world to wonder at
Eye-opening,lyricalandmoving...capturing thepoetry beneath the science.
Underlandis a startling and memorable book, charting invisible and vanishing worlds. Macfarlane has made himself Orpheus, the poet who ventures down to the darkest depths and returns - frighteningly alone-to sing of what he has seen
You'd be crazy not to read this book
Marvellous... Neverending curiosity, generosity of spirit, erudition, bravery and clarity... This is a book well worth reading
Descriere
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019
WINNER 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