otherlands a world in the making by thomas halliday

Otherlands is a naturalist's travel guide, albeit one of lands distant in time rather than space, showing us the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fantastical and familiar. We visit the birthplace of humanity in Pliocene-era Kenya in the Jurassic, we wander among dinosaur-inhabited islands in the Mediterranean and we gaze at the light of an enormous moon in the Ediacaran sky, when life hasn't yet reached land. 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 fact. The book was simultaneously published in English by Allen Lane (UK and Commonwealth), Random House (USA and. He goes as far back in time as approximately 555 million years ago.

2023 by Dr Thomas Halliday (Author) 457 ratings 1 Best Seller in Dinosaurs See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds is a nonfiction book about palaeontology written by Thomas Halliday, a British palaeontologist. Journeying backwards in time from the most recent Ice Age to the dawn of complex life itself, and across all seven continents, Halliday immerses us in a series of extinct ecosystems, each one rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama. Follow the author Thomas Halliday Otherlands: A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller Paperback 2 Feb. What would it be like to visit the ancient landscapes of the past? To experience the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among these other lands, as creatures extinct for millions of years roam? In this mesmerizing debut, the award-winning palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath-taking up close encounter with worlds that are normally unimaginably distant. A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to be Otherlands by Thomas Halliday review an extraordinary history of our almost-alien Earth Imagine the history of life on Earth as a road across Australia, Thomas Halliday suggests.

Otherlands a world in the making by thomas halliday