Bajotierra

Why descend? What do we know of the worlds that lie beneath our feet? What can they teach us about ourselves? Bajotierra is an epic exploration of the underground world through the author's travels to varied landscapes of the subsoil and the mythology, literature and memory that accompany them. In this extraordinary journey through our relationship with the darkness, the burial, the past and the future of our planet, we move from the origins of the universe to a post-human Earth, passing through the burial chambers of the Bronze Age, the catacombs of Paris , the macro-infrastructure for storing nuclear waste in the depths of Finland, the melting of Greenland's glaciers, the rivers disappearing underground, the caves under the Arctic ice and the fungal network through which the trees communicate. In his usual eagerness to find the links between the landscape and the human heart and thanks to a lyrical and powerful prose, the author exposes and illuminates this hidden part and, appealing to our time, invites us to see the world from a new perspective. perspective that inquires about the origin and loss but also about hope and fear for the future of our existence.