Underland : a deep time journey / Robert Macfarlane.

By:

Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019Edition: First American editionDescription: viii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780393242140
0393242145

Other title:

Under land

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

GN755 .M295 2019

Contents:

First chamber -- Descending -- Seeing (Britain) -- Second chamber -- Hiding (Europe) -- Third chamber -- Haunting (The north).

Summary: In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe to a post-human future, from the prehistoric art of Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, from Bronze Age funeral chambers to the catacomb labyrinth below Paris, and from the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	GN755 .M295 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001483352

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

First chamber -- Descending -- Seeing (Britain) -- Second chamber -- Hiding (Europe) -- Third chamber -- Haunting (The north).

In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe to a post-human future, from the prehistoric art of Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, from Bronze Age funeral chambers to the catacomb labyrinth below Paris, and from the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come.

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