Comments on: Book review – Underland: A Deep Time Journey/2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:18:50 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Exercise 1.1: Influencial books – Susanne's OCA Graphic Design Blog/2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-51938Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:43:56 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3667#comment-51938[…] Underland: A Deep Time Journey [and sequel to The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot] (Robert Macfarlane, 2019)“Macfarlane hopes that “deep time awareness might help us see ourselves as a part of a web of gift, inheritance and legacy stretching over millions of years”.” /2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/ […]

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]]>By: Book review – Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-42883Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:51:17 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3667#comment-42883[…] about the plans for long-term underground storage of nuclear waste in Finland in Macfarlane’s Underland, Gordon adds an interesting discussion on the challenges of designing warning signs for distant […]

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]]>By: Book review – London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-33416Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:21:45 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3667#comment-33416[…] he writes. It is his channelling of deep time that most brought to mind Robert Macfarlane’s Underland, from which he quotes on several occasions (and of which London Clay‘s cover reminded me). […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-11583Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:31:35 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3667#comment-11583[…] rapture at the scale and grandeur of nature. Greenland does this to you, and Gertner gratefully mines their writings for inspiring […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-7928Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:01:49 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3667#comment-7928[…] (see also my reviews of A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice and Underland: A Deep Time Journey), and Gertner gratefully mines their writings for inspiring […]

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]]>By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2019 | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-7506Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:51:34 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3667#comment-7506[…] There were several wonderful travel narratives I read this year, and I was torn between this one and Gange’s The Frayed Atlantic Edge. Macfarlane won. Underland is a beautifully written and contemplative travel companion to our planet’s many subterranean realms. Read more… […]

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]]>By: Book review – Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/17/book-review-underland-a-deep-time-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-4085Mon, 20 May 2019 09:27:00 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3667#comment-4085[…] five months apart on the subterranean realm, and I previously reviewed Robert Macfarlane’s Underland: A Deep Time Journey. Here I will turn my attention to […]

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