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