Otherlands

Journeying backwards in time from the most recent Ice Age to the dawn of complex life itself, palaeontologist Thomas 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. An epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist.