Otherlands
Thomas Halliday
Otherlands
Thomas Halliday
- Wydawnictwo: Allen Lane
- Rok wydania: 2022
- ISBN: 978-0-241-51044-5
- Ilość stron: 384
- Format: 15.0 x 23.0 cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: Otherlands - Thomas Halliday
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.
Szczegóły: Otherlands - Thomas Halliday
Tytuł: Otherlands
Autor: Thomas Halliday
Wydawnictwo: Allen Lane
Kod paskowy: 9780241510445
ISBN: 978-0-241-51044-5
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 384
Format: 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.505 kg