496 pages
English language
Published Aug. 18, 2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
4 stars
(1 review)
Underland: A Deep Time Journey is a book by Robert Macfarlane and the sequel to The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. Initially published in English on 2 May 2019 by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and on 4 June 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company in the US, the book has been translated into over a dozen languages. An audiobook, read by Matthew Waterson, was also released in June 2019 by HighBridge Audio. The book has received many awards and honours. It was a Sunday Times, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times Bestseller, it is a 2020 American Library Association Notable Book, and has won The 2019 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, The 2019 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing, and was named the 2020 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. The book has been placed …
Underland: A Deep Time Journey is a book by Robert Macfarlane and the sequel to The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. Initially published in English on 2 May 2019 by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and on 4 June 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company in the US, the book has been translated into over a dozen languages. An audiobook, read by Matthew Waterson, was also released in June 2019 by HighBridge Audio. The book has received many awards and honours. It was a Sunday Times, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times Bestseller, it is a 2020 American Library Association Notable Book, and has won The 2019 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, The 2019 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing, and was named the 2020 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. The book has been placed on many lists for best books of 2019 and was named as number 56 of the "100 best books of the 21st century" by The Guardian in September 2019. The book was also named the second best reviewed book of the year by the review aggregator Book Marks, having collected 35 total reviews by December 2019 with 26 marked as "rave", seven as "positive", and two as "mixed".
