WILLOUGHBY BOOK TALK
UNDERLAND: A DEEP TIME JOURNEY by Robert MacFarlane
An in-person event in the Keyes Gallery
Hosted by Rabia
National Bestseller • New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • NPR "Favorite Books of 2019" • Guardian "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award
"Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times." —Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times Book Review
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come—Underland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind.
Global in its geography and written with great lyricism, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.
“Remarkable…Underland may be [Macfarlane’s] masterpiece.” — New York Review of Books
“Incantatory…A worthy companion to the historian Simon Schama’s monumental Landscape and Memory.” — Wall Street Journal
“One of the most ambitious works of narrative non-fiction of our age.” — Guardian
