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Otherlands : a world in the making / Thomas Halliday.

Otherlands : a world in the making / Thomas Halliday.
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ISBN 9780241510445 (paperback)
Name Halliday, Thomas (Paleobiologist) author
Title Otherlands : a world in the making / Thomas Halliday.
Published London : Allen Lane, 2022.
©2022
Description xx, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary What would it be like to experience the ancient landscapes of the past as we experience the reality of nature today? To actually visit the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among their spectacular flora and fauna, to witness their continental shifts? In Otherlands, the multi-talented 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 sixteen lost ecosystems, each one rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama. Every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the shambling rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in fact. We visit the birthplace of humanity on the shores of the great lake Lonyumun, in Pliocene-era Kenya; in the Miocene, we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the world has ever known as it fills the evaporated Mediterranean Sea; we encounter forests of giant fungus nine metres tall in Devonian-era Scotland; and we gaze at the light of a full and enormous moon in the Ediacaran sky, when life hasn't yet reached land.
Subjects Paleobiology
Extinction (Biology)
Biotic communities
Life (Biology)
Fossils
Natural history
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