Underland : a deep time journey
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
551.447
1 available
551.447
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction
551.447
1 available
551.447
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction | 551.447 | On Shelf |
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction | 551.447 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-464) and index.
Description
"In this highly anticipated sequel to his international bestseller The Old Ways, Macfarlane 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. Woven through Macfarlane?s own travels are the unforgettable stories of descents into the underland made across history by explorers, artists, cavers, divers, mourners, dreamers, and murderers, all of whom have been drawn for different reasons to seek what Cormac McCarthy calls “the awful darkness within the world.”"--Amazon.com.
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