Journey into Deep Time Author: [UK] Robert MacFarlane

. . Original title: ?UNDERLAND: A Deep Time Journey

. . ISBN:?9787549634330

. . Content introduction. .

"Deep time" is the concept of geological time and the unit of time in the underground world. In the legend of the Sami people, the underground world is like an inverted mirror image of the human world, and the ground is the mirror surface. "The living stand upright, while the dead walk upside down, and their feet touch each other." This book is about a dark journey, a journey of seeking knowledge about the underground world. From Mesolithic charnel houses, deep sea laboratories, forest mycorrhizal networks, to twin underground cities, underground starless rivers, wartime mass graves, to cave walls, glaciers, nuclear waste repositories... I saw some hope. Things that I will always remember, and I also saw some things that I would rather never witness. The world under our feet not only houses darkness and death, but also treasures hidden humanity and long civilization.

. . About the author. .

Robert Macfarlane, British writer, critic, Cambridge scholar, member of the Royal Society of Literature, and the youngest chairman of the Booker Prize jury.

Born in Nottingham, England, in 1976. Master of Philosophy from Oxford University and PhD from Cambridge University. Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of Literature and Environmental Humanities in the Department of English. Academic research and writing focus on the relationship between nature and literature. Articles and reviews can be found in New Scientist, The New Yorker, Nature, The Guardian, The New York Times, and Granta.

McFarlane writes nourished by walking, and his debut book pushes contemporary travel writing to new heights. The former editor-in-chief of "Granta" praised him as "the best contemporary walking literature writer", and the "Wall Street Journal" called him "the best contemporary nature writer and poet". In 2003, he won the Guardian First Book Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Won the Somerset Maugham Literary Award in 2004. In 2017, he won the E. M. Forster Literary Award. In 2019, he won the Wainwright Award and the National Outdoor Book Award.

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The author is probably a fan of Greek mythology and is really familiar with Greek gods and heroes. There is a huge amount of information, and you need to Google from time to time to stock up on your own inventory of cold knowledge. The content is interesting and boring at the same time, but as the title of the book still says, "underland" is a world we have not been able to glimpse.

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A great read that exceeded expectations! Through the suffocation of a low and narrow cave, the excitement and curiosity of exploring the unknown, and the sudden enlightenment from underground to above ground... a completely immersive reading experience, the author's writing is great, although it can be regarded as a big book, but there is no Even if you have dyslexia, you won't find it boring. This is a book worth calming down and reading.

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My love for Teacher Mai began with the preface he wrote for the book "Living Mountain". His literary talent and philosophical thinking coexist, and it makes people's hearts beat. Later I discovered that he had written books about walking and mountains, which are my favorite themes. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is "the best contemporary writer on walking literature". And this "Journey into Deep Time" can be called Mr. Mai's most ambitious "walk": going deep underground, tracing the marks left by time, and caring about the future of mankind. Activities such as caving that require entering the underground world are probably something I will never do personally, but I am full of curiosity about the unknown world underground, so I would like to thank Teacher Mai for exploring and watching it for me, and for teaching me It has to be so interesting.

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A book that broadens your horizons. You can always learn about some strange and far-reaching projects carried out by foreign scientific researchers from various books. This is indeed not well publicized in China. The concept of deep time is very magnificent. I really like the research of Muweiwang. The natural setting in Avatar Pandora is a manifestation of this concept.

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The academic version of Ghost Blowing the Lamp, I most, most, most, most like the Paris underground city. The author's description of the scene is so awesome. He opened an unattractive manhole cover and entered the world of Impressionism, Louvre and Paris. The floating museum, Shakespeare's Bookstore, the dark side of Paris - the dark history and underground carnivals, the sense of a cramped but dimly lit village, really immersive, and finally the story of the nuclear waste burial site One chapter reveals a doomsday wasteland aesthetic. . . . In fact, the layout of this book is quite large. It looks at historical ruins, natural wonders, industrial traces, scientific burial objects, and an underground odyssey. It is the B-side of human civilization anyway, opening up the folded life experience. . . . . Therefore, the mobile phones we use, the hot pot we eat, the mandibles we wear, the high-speed trains running on the ground, and the detectors flying in the sky will all eventually prove that we are our fossils.

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There are also trace fossils in our bodies, which are the traces left by the people who have passed away. The handwriting on the envelope, the football marks on the wooden steps, a habitual gesture of the person you miss. These are trace fossils. After losing it, all that is left are some faint traces. Sometimes, what remains in our hearts is not the thing itself, but the place vacated after it leaves.

Quoted from Dark Matter

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If we don’t explore, we are equivalent to doing nothing, just waiting. P56

Philip Larkin once said: The thing that outlives us is love.

No, it’s plastic, pork bones, and lead-207 that will outlast us. P65

The exquisite above-ground architecture will eventually become a chaotic urban stratum: a mixture of concrete, bricks and asphalt, cloudy crystals made of pressed glass, traces left by the corrosion and decomposition of steel. Beneath the ground, subway and sewer systems, catacombs and quarrying caves may be preserved intact into a post-human future. P147

Each of us is involved in the impact of the Anthropocene, and everyone is both the creator and the bearer of this era. In the Anthropocene, it is difficult for us to step outside of nature and examine it calmly or express our affection for it. Nature is no longer just a mountain peak in the bright sunshine in the distance, or a bird of prey hunting above a birch tree. It is a tide line laden with thick plastic debris, and millions of square miles of slowly degrading permafrost. of flammable ice. This new nature is surrounding us, and we are only just becoming aware of it. P279

We stayed like this for an hour, or a century, on that strange mountain top, bathed in sunshine. Not much was said to each other, where language was irrelevant, even meaningless, and so it slipped awkwardly through the landscape. The grandeur here makes similes and metaphors ridiculous. The story is worthless in front of it, and the usual modes of meaning-making are useless. I've never seen a place like this. P314

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