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  • A Deep Time Journey
  • Written by: Robert Macfarlane
  • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
  • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (60 ratings)

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Underland

Written by: Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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Publisher's Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

Shortlisted for the Best Nonfiction Audiobook at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.

A Sunday Times bestseller

Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2019

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of The Year Award 2020

A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century

From the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways

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

©2019 Robert Macfarlane (P)2019 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

"He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation." (Wall Street Journal)

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Absorbing and profound

Sometimes, when a wonderful book and sensitive voice talent collaborate, you are gifted with those immersive moments when you no longer see the world around you — you “see” the text. . . This is one of those partnerships.

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Wonderful

Well written and well read. Such a glorious exploration of the human and earthly underlands. Thank you!

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Personal informative and entertaining

Loved this book. With enough interesting personal adventures, story and research to complete the fascinating text. The author’s journey into caves, forest below ground ecosystems, tunnels under cities, deep mines and into glaciers carry the reader with him on a wonderful search for knowledge and adventure.

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Beautiful and deep and utterly gutting

MacFarlane is a brilliant writer, able to turn the driest and hardest of ideas into pure, beautiful prose. As with most of his books, this one is part travelogue, part memoir, part cry for the preservation of our world. It's perfectly read, and devastating in its impact on a receptive listener.

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Beautiful audiobook!

This was a fantastic and rich book that I am glad to have listened to. The narrator is excellent and I believe the experience of listening to the audiobook greatly enhances an already lovely book.

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Incredible journey!

Discovery and facts are interwoven with mythology and stories. Fascinating and exhilarating listen and read.

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