UNDERLAND: A deep time journey

Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2019 'Masterly, thrilling, extraordinary' Observer 'Mesmerizing. Underland is a portal of light in dark times' New York Times Book Review Underland is an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory and the land itself. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world. 'Unquestionably, Macfarlane's magnum opus. Blessed with the scholarship of Sebald, the stylistic felicity of Bruce Chatwin and the vocabulary and syntax of Patrick Leigh Fermor' William Dalrymple, Guardian 'Remarkable. Charting invisible and vanishing worlds, Macfarlane has made himself Orpheus, the poet who ventures down to the darkest depths and returns to sing of what he has seen' Erica Wagner, New Statesman 'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary author. From the beauty and mystery of impossibly old cave paintings to an underground nuclear waste dump, this is a journey that tells the story not just of nature but of human nature' i 'A celebration of all that lies hidden beneath our feet, and a warning, if warning were needed, of the continuing, reckless human undermining of our exquisite and all too fragile planet. Macfarlane is a poet of the natural world, and this is his masterpiece so far' John Banville, Irish Times 'A wonderful book, full of wisdom and hope. Beautifully written, it is a journey into the fascinating, but mostly unknown world underneath our feet. A lyrical exploration of time, nature, memory, literature and landscape, it took Macfarlane ten years to complete, but it will take you longer to forget it' Elif Shafak