Robert Macfarlane is the author of best-selling, prize-winning books about nature, place, and people, including The Old Ways, Landmarks, and (with Jackie Morris) The Lost Words. He lives in Cambridge, England, where he is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge.
"Mesmerizing...Underland is a portal of light in dark
times." -- Terry Tempest Williams - New York Times Book Review
"An excellent book-fearless and subtle, empathic and strange." --
Dwight Garner - The New York Times
"Reading Macfarlane connects us to dazzling new worlds. It's a
connection that brings, more than anything else, joy." -- Barbara
J. King - NPR
"Incantatory...A worthy companion to the historian Simon Schama's
monumental Landscape and Memory." -- Marcia Bjornerud -
Wall Street Journal
"Brilliant." -- Peter Fish - San Francisco Chronicle
"Exquisite. " -- Ryan J. Haupt - Science
"Quietly prophetic. " -- Jedediah Purdy - Atlantic
"Profound in every sense of the word." -- Richard Powers
"Underland is a devastating act of witness and a clear,
cogent, lyrical examination of the darknesses invisible beneath our
feet." -- Lauren Groff
"Underland is a profound reckoning with humankind's
self-imperiled position in nature's eternal order. At once
thrilling and soulful, raw and erudite, it is a book of
revelations." -- Philip Gourevitch
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