OTHERLANDS

FOYLES NON FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERTHE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING HIGHLY COMMENDEDLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTIONA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES TELEGRAPH PROSPECT THE NEW YORKER AND BBC HISTORY WATERSTONES NON FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read Tom Holland Epically cinematic A book of almost unimaginable riches Sunday TimesThis 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 young 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 fragilit