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Underland: a deep time journey

By Macfarlane , Robert

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2019
ISBN
9780393242140, 9780393242157, 0393242145
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
16 MB (16503004 bytes)
Edition
First American edition
Pages
384 pages ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
CivilizationSubterranean;Geology;Underground areas;Underground

Description

"In [this book, the author delivers] 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."--From publisher's description.

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