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Otherlands - A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller (Paperback)
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Otherlands - A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller (Paperback)
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FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN
BESTSELLER THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY
COMMENDED LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, PROSPECT,
THE NEW YORKER AND BBC HISTORY WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE
MONTH 'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever
read' Tom Holland 'Epically cinematic... A book of almost
unimaginable riches' Sunday Times This is the past as we've never
seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into
deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds
that were here before ours. Award-winning young palaeobiologist
Thomas Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from
the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of
Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to
Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours
today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of
the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as
life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the
mammal dawns. Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an
emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet
also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our
own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an
endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds,
simultaneously fabulous and familiar.
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