Otherlands : a world in the making / Thomas Halliday.

UK : Penguin Books, 2023.

xxii, 384 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. 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.

9780141991146 (pbk)

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