Tip for Reading List: Sinking Deep into Nature | Explained News, The Indian Express

Tip for Reading List: Sinking Deep into Nature | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: June 5, 2019 10:02:40 am

Tip for Reading List: Sinking Deep into Nature

Underland tells stories of underground explorations — of fungi that live beneath forests in England, catacombs in Paris, a part subterranean river in Italy, and sinkholes in the Slovenian highlands.

In a review of his new book, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, The New York Times called Macfarlane a “fetishizer of archaic and offbeat language”, whose “interest in weirdness, linguistic and otherwise, is always on display”.

To his 150,000-plus followers on Twitter, the English writer Robert Macfarlane supplies a daily ‘Word of the Day’: names of flowers, insects, features of nature, descriptors of the weather and atmosphere — often quaint and pretty, but mostly words you’d struggle to actually use while speaking or writing.