Probed, pierced, and revered The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor Veronica della Dora University of Chicago Press, 2020. 416 pp

Earth's mantle acts as a metaphor for the planet's unknowns, for its beauty, and for its fragility In her new book, The Mantle of the Earth , geographer Veronica della Dora explains how Earth's mantle has provided a capacious metaphor for the terrain that sustains human life and the manner in which it is imagined and investigated. This is a metaphor that thrives on the lifting of veils and the piercing of interiors, as well as the "warp and weft" of a web of life and the weaving together of social and physical phenomena into narratives that convey the rich texture of this environment.