The World Beneath Our Feet
The Hidden Life of Soil and Why It Matters to Us All
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Product details:
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Date of Publication 27 August 2026
- ISBN 9781399742474
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 240x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 x 8 page colour plate sections 700
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'Thrilling and delightful' - George Monbiot
'Vital, brilliant, wholly absorbing... A masterpiece of science writing' - Isabella tree
To appreciate the wonders of the world around us, we're often told to look up. But what if we need to look down instead?
Everything that happens below ground sustains all life above it - yet we rarely think about this mysterious, dark underland. In The World Beneath Our Feet soil ecologist Frank Ashwood scratches the surface and takes us on an eye-opening safari through this precious ecosystem, from the ancient forests of New Zealand to the vast black soil deposits of the US and China. Every layer of the pedosphere is a world of its own, each more alien than the last as we travel deeper into the Earth.
The ground beneath our feet hums with a staggering abundance of winding roots, interconnecting fungal networks, wriggling creatures and mind-blowing microbial life. This hidden ecosystem is the single most biodiverse habitat on the planet. Half of all our species exist underfoot, and just a handful of soil can contain an entire world. Without soil, there would be no life as we know it.
In a story of connection and communication, we meet pioneering plants and minute animals that are essential to the health and wellbeing of our planet. We learn how soil makes our very existence possible, allowing us to cultivate crops as well as storing precious carbon and the water we need to survive. We marvel at soil as the Earth's fertiliser and one the building blocks of evolution, transforming decaying matter into the birthplace of new life.
The World Beneath Our Feet opens our eyes to the hidden, wondrous world of soil and invites us all to play a part in protecting it for future generations.
