Summary
In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and m... Full description
- First chamber
- Descending
- Part I. Seeing (Britain)
- Burial (Mendips, Somerset)
- Dark matter (Boulby, Yorkshire)
- The understorey (Epping Forest, London)
- Second chamber
- Part II. Hiding (Europe)
- Invisible cities (Paris)
- Starless rivers (The Carso, Italy)
- Hollow land (Slovenian highlands)
- Third chamber
- Part III. Haunting (The north)
- Red dancers (Lofotens, Norway)
- The edge (Andøya, Norway)
- The blue of time (Kulusuk, Greenland)
- Meltwater (Knud Rasmussen Glacier, Greenland)
- The hiding place (Olkiluoto, Finland)
- Surfacing.