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2019 selection · Nonfiction
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane appears in NPR’s 2019 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, science!, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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