Lurking beneath the surface

‘We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’

The Secular Study Dave Puttick

Those words from T.S. Eliot would make a fitting summary of Underland, the latest work from Robert Macfarlane, a leading figure in what is sometimes called ‘new nature writing’, one of the biggest publishing trends of the last decade or so.