Under Our Feet
An irresistible and playful journey through a unique underground landscape
Most of us have a more accurate picture of the deepest depths of the ocean than we do of the ground beneath our feet. A handful of earth can contain thousands of animal species, metres of fungal threads and billions of bacteria. Soil is also an archive, and digging a kind of time travel. In De Grote Peel, a protected Dutch peatland, Nikki Dekker finds a world of interconnectedness from which we have much to learn, especially for those looking for the ‘why’ of existence.
Non-FictionPrint
Author
Nikki Dekker
Year of publication
2024
Publisher
De Bezige Bij
Page count
216
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Under Our Feet is full of enchanting facts about soil life and musings about the advance of time, carbon and ecological restoration. Nikki Dekker’s amazement is highly contagious.
de Volkskrant
A wonderful book about depth and what it takes to share the world with other life forms, under and above ground.
Marjolijn van Heemstra, author
Nikki Dekker
Nikki Dekker (b. 1989) is a writer and radio producer.