Through concepts like ilira (the Inuit word for a sense of fear and awe, as subjective experience), Macfarlane explores the landscapes of forests and rivers, caverns and caves, and oceans and ice. Underland is a compilation of personal journeys into dark places where local guides share their knowledge about a specific place. While you may find yourself drawn to particular chapters, Macfarlane seeks to identify patterns and make connections to enrich how people might move and think together across landscapes.

Free flowing thoughts inspired by memory, dreams, cultural history and place attachment, Solnit speaks of personal growth by way of loss and rediscovery. When you get lost, shes says on page 22, “the world has become larger than your knowledge of it”. Over the course of our lives we have the opportunity to traverse great distance, and some people travel further than others.