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This fascinating book is about exploring the world. It contains the author's personal memoirs of travel to distant places, some above-ground, but mostly underground. As he explores these regions, he allows the reader to travel alongside and experience mystery, magesty, danger, and discovery. His lyrical prose makes this book such a joy! You can travel with the author to an underground astronomical observatory (yes!), to the ice cap of Greenland, to the catacombs under Paris and under Odessa, to
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A neat concept - what things worth writing about belong in the bucket of 'stuff underground from us?' So we get sections about mining, underground urban exploring, cave painting, and so forth, each of which is fascinating.
The subject matter is magical, but Macfarlane at times maybe tries to force the magic in his writing a bit too much. Sometimes I was a bit too aware of the writing and it distracted from really cool subject matter. But that's a small complaint, and each subject was an active ex ...more
The subject matter is magical, but Macfarlane at times maybe tries to force the magic in his writing a bit too much. Sometimes I was a bit too aware of the writing and it distracted from really cool subject matter. But that's a small complaint, and each subject was an active ex ...more
Beautiful and thoughtful. Very much recommended, as are all of Macfarlane's books.
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