9780141999807

English language

Published by Penguin Books Ltd.

3 stars (1 review)

A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to be What would it be like to visit the ancient landscapes of the past? To experience the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among these other lands, as creatures extinct for millions of years roam? In this mesmerizing debut, the award-winning 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 a series of extinct ecosystems, each one rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama. Yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in fact. We visit the birthplace of …

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Subjects

  • Paleontology
  • Popular works
  • Extinction (Biology)
  • Biotic communities
  • Fossils
  • Life (Biology)
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Natural history
  • Paleobiology
  • Biological Extinction
  • Natural History
  • Paléontologie
  • Ouvrages de vulgarisation
  • Extinction (Biologie)
  • Fossiles
  • Vie (Biologie)
  • Sciences naturelles
  • Paléobiologie
  • Natural sciences

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