Otherlands: A World in the Making
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Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year, a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, The Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing - highly commended, longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, a Best Book of the Year in The Sunday Times, Telegraph, Prospect, The New Yorker and BBC History, a Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month! This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Award-winning palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Books
Udgave
0
ISBN
9780141991146
Sprog
engelsk
Sider
416
Udgivelsesdato
02-02-2023
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3084630
EAN nr.
9780141991146
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
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