"Brilliant."
– Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle

"Incantatory."
– Marcia Bjornerud, Wall Street Journal

"Chilling."
– Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times

"Visionary."
– Bathsheba Demuth, Chicago Review of Books

"Exquisite."
– Ryan J. Haupt, Science

"Quietly prophetic."
– Jedediah Purdy, Atlantic

"[Macfarlane’s] best and most lyrical book."
– Economist

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come—Underland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind.

Global in its geography and written with great lyricism, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.