This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page. The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Prospect (UK) “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”-Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky.LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE rewinds the story of life on Earth-from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”- The Economist
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