Chris Fitch is a writer, geographer, and storyteller based in New Zealand. He is a senior staff writer for Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, which has seen him travel from Greece to Australia, from Kenya to the Galapagos Islands, uncovering stories about wildernesses, culture, conservation, and more. Previously he lived in the Solomon Islands, South Korea, and Taiwan. His debut book, Atlas of Untamed Places was nominated for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. His second book, Globalography, was published in November 2018.
Remarkable places ... glorious illustrations. * Wanderlust magazine * Chris Fitch is fascinated by these fantastical underworlds, and has gone in search of enigmatic cave paintings, eerie plague pits, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the illicit smuggling tunnels snaking between Mexico and the USA. * The Simple Things magazine * Accompanied by stunning photography and illustrative maps, this book is a great way to escape from the outside world by diving into the depths of another. 5 STARS ***** * How It Works magazine * With evocative maps and stunning photography, Subterranea shows that the underground realm is just as captivating as the above-ground world around us. * Daily Mail * An incredible and evocative journey into the most exotic and unknown realms on the planet ... Here is a book that makes you stop and wonder at every page; a deeply engaging guided tour through an eerie world where mankind's old myths and legends seem to acquire a mesmerising reality. * Sinclair McKay * An original and timely odyssey into our mysterious underworld ... Thrilling proof that science and imagination share the ground beneath our feet. * Nicholas Crane, presenter of BBC2's Coast and Great British Journeys *