Underland by Robert Macfarlane
The first non-fiction book I’ve read in a while but Robert Macfarlane’s Underland reads like the best of any gripping novel. It charts his exploration underground, through ‘deep-time’, from the ‘invisible’ and forbidden city beneath Paris, to Greenland Glaciers and closer to home in the limestone caverns of the Mendips and even to Epping Forest and the ‘understorey’ – the life between the forest floor and the tree canopy. And, who knew about the world-wood-web?! The interconnection of branch to trunk, trunk to root and to the web below the surface.
Page-turning non-fiction – eye-opening, thought-provoking – it will stay with me for some time (then I’ll read it again!)