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Underland :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition
First American edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
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.
Call Number
551.447 MACFARLANE
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
ISBN
9780393242140
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