Underland

hardcover, 496 pages

Published July 15, 2019 by Hamish Hamilton.

ISBN:
978-0-241-14380-3
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OCLC Number:
1090426398

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From the vast underground mycelial networks by which trees communicate to the ice-blue depths of glacial moulins, and from North Yorkshire to the Lofoten Islands, Robert Macfarlane traces a voyage through the worlds beneath our feet.

He reaches back into the deep history of the planet, through the layers of rock and ancient buried objects, and forward to the future, the legacy of the anthropocene and the world we bequeath our descendants.

Underland is Macfarlane at his dazzling best - the lyrical, the political and the philosophical come together in this profound exploration of the relationship between landscape and the human heart.

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La geologia può non smaronare

Una sorta di diario di viaggio/saggio, in cui l'autore sviscera attraverso le sue esperienze sotto terra, cosa quest'ultima rappresenta per l'umanità e in generale, per la natura. Personalmente ho trovato affascinante e magnetico come l'autore conciliasse l'approccio scientifico alla materia con uno più filosofico-poetico. Veramente consigliatissimo per chi volesse iniziarsi ai saggi.