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#1 The riven trunk of an old ash tree marks the entrance to the underland. The underland is a labyrinth that deepens steeply into the earth. It is a cold, dark space full of sound and scenes that move slowly.
#2 The Minotaur is a figure on a coin designed by a metalworker on an island in the Mediterranean 300 years before the founding of the Roman Empire. The coin's...
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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...
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A journey through the far north from the Shetland Islands to Greenland and beyond: "A wonder-voyage . . often beautiful" (Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland ). The stark, vast beauty of the remote landscape of Arctic Europe has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history, and mythology, Gavin Francis offers a unique portrait of the northern fringes of Europe. His journey begins...
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