Underland

The unmissable new book from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Old Ways and The Lost WordsDiscover the hidden worlds beneath our feet...In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes a dazzling journey into the concealed geographies of the ground beneath our feet - the hidden regions beneath the visible surfaces of the world. From the vast below-ground mycelial networks by which trees communicate, to the ice-blue depths of glacial moulins, and from North Yorkshire to the Lofoten Islands, he traces an uncharted, deep-time voyage. Underland a thrilling new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of the relations of landscape and the human heart.'He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation' Wall Street Journal 'Packed with stories based in geography, history, myth, gossip, legend, religion, geology and the natural world. Macfarlane's writing moves and enthrals' The Times on The 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