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OTHERLANDS - THOMAS HALLIDAY KARTONIERT (TB)

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. To read Otherlands is to time travel  to see
the last 550 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time  but as a series of
worlds  simultaneously fantastical and familiar.

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