Underlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Landscape - Softcover

TED NIELD holds a doctorate in geology and works for the Geological Society of London as Editor of the monthly magazine Geoscientist. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and a member of the Meteoritical Society. He is the author of Supercontinent (2007) and Incoming! (2011). He lives in London.

[This book has] great charm and humour... [I was] genuinely moved by its messages... [Geology] can be oracular still, fiercely warning us against the degradation of our planet, and in the hands of Ted Nield it edges its way towards art - Jan Morris, Literary Review

A poetic remembrance of forgotten time and lost perspectives - Iain Finlayson, The Times The ability to see the past and the future is both a blessing and a curse. I found that particularly strong testimony coming from someone who has spent a career in the oil industry - Paul Pearson, TLS

Nield brilliantly explores this underworld of mines, quarries, brickworks and concealed formations to show how much of the character and history of our country is written in rocks - Richard Fortey

This is an entirely novel, and powerfully illuminating, look at the world literally below our feet and in front of our eyes. Read it and your vision will improve - Bill McKibben

Expansive and enthusiastic, brimming with insights and extraordinary details, Underlands is a dispatch from the Deep Time of geology. In guiding you through the unseen world below us it delivers what the best books do: a transformation in perspective - Gavin Francis

Nield's memoir moves seamlessly between personal history, family history, industrial history - and geological time. Underlands will make you see the ground beneath your feet in a whole new light - Neil Ansell

Nield eloquently explores the foundations on which our cities have been built and the geological wonders that lie beneath us - Mayfair Magazine

[Readers] will be both informed and enchanted by Underlands, a personal memoir with an important scientific message - Andrew Robinson, Engineering and Technology

Nield deftly combines geological information, with history, politics, philosophy and personal memoir to highlight the important role geology plays in so many practical aspects of our lives... A great read - Geoscientist

[A] heartfelt book - Alastair Mabbott, Herald"

"[This book has] great charm and humour... [I was] genuinely moved by its messages... [Geology] can be oracular still, fiercely warning us against the degradation of our planet, and in the hands of Ted Nield it edges its way towards art" - Jan Morris, Literary Review

"A poetic remembrance of forgotten time and lost perspectives" - Iain Finlayson, The Times"The ability to see the past and the future is both a blessing and a curse. I found that particularly strong testimony coming from someone who has spent a career in the oil industry - Paul Pearson, TLS

"Nield brilliantly explores this underworld of mines, quarries, brickworks and concealed formations to show how much of the character and history of our country is written in rocks" - Richard Fortey

"This is an entirely novel, and powerfully illuminating, look at the world literally below our feet and in front of our eyes. Read it and your vision will improve" - Bill McKibben

"Expansive and enthusiastic, brimming with insights and extraordinary details, Underlands is a dispatch from the Deep Time of geology. In guiding you through the unseen world below us it delivers what the best books do: a transformation in perspective" - Gavin Francis

"Nield's memoir moves seamlessly between personal history, family history, industrial history - and geological time. Underlands will make you see the ground beneath your feet in a whole new light" - Neil Ansell

"Nield eloquently explores the foundations on which our cities have been built and the geological wonders that lie beneath us" - Mayfair Magazine

"[Readers] will be both informed and enchanted by Underlands, a personal memoir with an important scientific message" - Andrew Robinson, Engineering and Technology

"Nield deftly combines geological information, with history, politics, philosophy and personal memoir to highlight the important role geology plays in so many practical aspects of our lives... A great read" - Geoscientist

"[A] heartfelt book" - Alastair Mabbott, Herald