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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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