Underland - A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane

W. W. Norton & Company

2019

384 páginas

12h 48m

ISBN-10: 0393242145

Hailed as “the great nature writer of this generation” (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of prize-winning books about the intersection between the human and the natural world. In Underland, he delivers his masterwork: an epic exploration of Earth’s vast subterranean landscape in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

Delving into what is known as “deep time,” the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present, Macfarlane takes us on an exhilarating journey to Arctic sea caves, Bronze Age burial chambers, the catacombs of Paris, the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate, a dark matter research lab searching for the origins of the universe, and a deep-sunk “hiding place” designed to store nuclear waste for 100,000 years to come.

Global in its geography, contemporary in its concerns, and written with great lyricism and power, Underland uncovers our complex, crucial relationship with the worlds beneath our feet.

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Profundo. Bem escrito. Uma sucessão de viagens claustrofóbicas por paisagens que vão desde as redes de túneis que servem como cemitério para milhões de pessoas de diversas épocas na “underland” de Paris até os gelados fiordes árticos. Essas incursões são ponto para reflexões sobre a camada do próprio ser, do íntimo do ser humano em paralelo às camadas e extratos do nosso planeta, levantando questões sobre o impacto de nossa civilização na Terra. Ideia interessante e bem conduzida.