This week, Travis and Amanda discuss and analyze the first half of UNDERLAND: A DEEP TIME JOURNEY, a scientific and philosophical exploration by Robert Macfarlane. Grab your sturdiest miner's helmet and your finest spelunking ropes because we are headed deep underground for some scientific, philosophical, and literary explorations. Macfarlane's intellectual interests -- like his journeys across Europe -- are fairly diffuse, so it's best to come to this book with an open mind. If you do, you will be rewarded with beautiful, even rhapsodic, prose and a bevy (Amanda would say an onslaught) of scientific facts. We're taking the train from the arctic circle down to the Mediterranean, so join us as we consider the many allures that the "underland" offers humankind.
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This week, Travis and Amanda discuss and analyze the first half of UNDERLAND: A DEEP TIME JOURNEY, a scientific and philosophical exploration by Robert Macfarlane. Grab your sturdiest miner's helmet and your finest spelunking ropes because we are headed deep underground for some scientific, philosophical, and literary explorations. Macfarlane's intellectual interests -- like his journeys across Europe -- are fairly diffuse, so it's best to come to this book with an open mind. If you do, you will be rewarded with beautiful, even rhapsodic, prose and a bevy (Amanda would say an onslaught) of scientific facts. We're taking the train from the arctic circle down to the Mediterranean, so join us as we consider the many allures that the "underland" offers humankind.
This week, Travis and Amanda analyze the second half of UPSTREAM, an essay collection by Mary Oliver. This one's for all you wayward souls who've wandered through the woods, built a ramshackle treehouse, or gleefully ran outside to play in the mud. Oliver's blissful and soulful (and, sure, I'll say it: at times, pretty weird!) connection to nature makes this an essay collection well worth while; consider her ruminations on some canonized American authors a nice bonus. Don your strongest SPF sunscreen and wander in the rhetorical woods with us.
The Lightly Literary Podcast
This week, Travis and Amanda discuss and analyze the first half of UNDERLAND: A DEEP TIME JOURNEY, a scientific and philosophical exploration by Robert Macfarlane. Grab your sturdiest miner's helmet and your finest spelunking ropes because we are headed deep underground for some scientific, philosophical, and literary explorations. Macfarlane's intellectual interests -- like his journeys across Europe -- are fairly diffuse, so it's best to come to this book with an open mind. If you do, you will be rewarded with beautiful, even rhapsodic, prose and a bevy (Amanda would say an onslaught) of scientific facts. We're taking the train from the arctic circle down to the Mediterranean, so join us as we consider the many allures that the "underland" offers humankind.
