The Underground Sea
Miners and the Miner’s Strike
Canongate, 2024
The Underground Sea brings together a collection of rare texts by John Berger on miners and miners’ strikes. The collection includes a transcript and image-essay of his 1973 Open University & BBC documentary exploring Émile Zola’s Germinal; alongside a number of Berger essays and interviews from the writer’s archive.
Co-edited with Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and designed by Scott King & Tom Etherington, The Underground Sea was published on the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike of 1984–85.
Hardback and paperback, 128 pages.
Miners and the Miner’s Strike
Canongate, 2024
The Underground Sea brings together a collection of rare texts by John Berger on miners and miners’ strikes. The collection includes a transcript and image-essay of his 1973 Open University & BBC documentary exploring Émile Zola’s Germinal; alongside a number of Berger essays and interviews from the writer’s archive.
Co-edited with Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and designed by Scott King & Tom Etherington, The Underground Sea was published on the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike of 1984–85.
Hardback and paperback, 128 pages.
