Underland by Robert MacFarlane

Underland by Robert MacFarlaneA beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today, the internationally bestselling, prize winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century In

prosthesis and self-care

In the four provinces of Ireland there are thirty-two counties

with simplicity and clarity

In taking this anthropomorphic approach

with disastrous effects

and our urban co-existence

or even from an excess of ego

fear and passion – all the while moving closer to an unforgettable revelation

For more than twenty-five years

recounts his trials and tribulations following in the footsteps of the ancients along prescribed paths

and in Heaney's evocation of a disappearing rural Ireland haunted by political violence

talk ranges widely