Otherlands : a world in the making
Halliday, Thomas (Paleobiologist)2022
Book
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.
Main title:
Otherlands : a world in the making / Thomas Halliday.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2022.
Collation:
352 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241405741 (hbk)
Dewey class:
560560 HAL560.HAL
Language:
English
BRN:
3205288