Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Audiobook)

from DerekCaelin

Robert Macfarlane's voice reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's, and for me this is a compliment. He is lyrical, focused both on the human and the scientific. The passages about underground cities moved me the most. I don't think I have it in me to visit places so dark, and claustrophobic, and hid...

from mdoris

This was another amazing book by Robert Macfarlane! He allows you to be an armchair adventurer tagging along with him by going to impossible places. In our daily lives we mostly view things above the earth's crust (except perhaps parking garages below ground) but Macfarlane takes us to places bel...

from bhiggs

Amazing read. It covers all things underground. It's a history book, an environmentalism book, a geology book, and an anthropology book all in one. I love the allure of underground spaces, and the interesting and less known features of our planet. This hit all the marks for me. Highly recommended!

from neurodrew

I started this when traveling back from Las Vegas, finished it quickly because it was fascinating. MacFarlane must be in excellent shape, because he describes crawling in narrow openings, climbing and rapelling in deep caves as well as visiting mines and sites for storing nuclear waste. Very hard...

from Andy5185

Fascinating subject matter, but overall not my kind of reading. It failed to keep my attention one too many times for my liking.