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Underland
by Robert Macfarlane
Journeys beneath the surface: caves, catacombs, mines, nuclear waste vaults, the dark matter lab, glaciers. Deep time and what we bury. His most ambitious book.
Read it if…
you want a grand book about depth and time.
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Skip it if…
you are claustrophobic.
Try instead: Mountains of the Mind →
Three things you will actually use
- Think in deep time.
- What we bury returns.
- Be a good ancestor.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the Paris catacombs.
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