Underland

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• hypertexthero · Oct 7, 2026 · Recommends

  And if interested in underground in general, I can recommend Underland by Robert Macfarlane.

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• ricktdotorg · Aug 5, 2019 · Recommends

  Thirded (?). I just finished reading "Underland". Incredible read, highly recommend his work.

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• banjo_milkman · Nov 6, 2019 · Recommends

  My struggle book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Good, though I think I preferred the earlier books. It's still very compelling, but a little too much Hitler in this one Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane. Poetic landscape history, reminiscent of Sebald. Good stuff. Click here to kill everybody by Bruce Schneier. Scary. Machines like me by Ian McEwan. First McEwan…

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• joloooo · Nov 8, 2023 · Recommends

  There's a good couple of chapters on the catacombs in Robert Macfarlane's book The Underland (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53121631)

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• schlagetown · Jan 5, 2020 · Recommends

  …as some authors should not-write certain books!) Abandon more books. Browse many; read few. Choose to engage w/ books & their ideas outside the text itself. 52. Best books I've read in the last year: Underland—Robert Macfarlane How to Do Nothing—Jenny Odell Go Ahead in the Rain—Hanif Abdurraqib Daemon Voices—Philip Pullman Carceral Capitalism—Jackie Wang So Many Books—Gabriel Zaid The Collected Schizophrenias—Esmé…

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