0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world

Not currently available

Otherlands - A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller (Hardcover) Loot Price: R587
Discovery Miles 5 870
Otherlands - A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller (Hardcover): Thomas Halliday

Otherlands - A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller (Hardcover)

Thomas Halliday

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R587 Discovery Miles 5 870

Bookmark and Share

Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.

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 '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. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant. 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. These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in the fossil record. 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.

General

Imprint: Allen Lane
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2022
Authors: Thomas Halliday
Dimensions: 240 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 978-0-241-40574-1
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Palaeontology > General
LSN: 0-241-40574-2
Barcode: 9780241405741

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

Partners