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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

Start date: December 1, 2024

Finish date: December 31, 2024

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Jan 15, 2025 aPriL does feral sometimes rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: academic-notations, favorites, science, a-jack-in-the-box-pop-surprise, non-fiction

‘Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds’ by Thomas Halliday is wonderfully descriptive! I forgot he was describing places that no longer exist in our time! Instead, I wondered if there were tour packages…

Kidding! But it is beautifully written. I highly recommend this comprehensive ‘travelogue’ based on recent science discoveries. It is incredible what scientists are able to suss out from bones and old rocks and sediment.

I have copied the book blurb:

”“A kaleidoscopic and evocative j ...more

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Dec 15, 2024 bup rated it it was amazing

Shelves: science, dinosaurs, our-dying-planet, 2024, nonfiction-books-are-300-pages-rule

What a fantastic ride back through time, with stops at several significants points in earth's history.

And what a writer! I only started keeping track of some of the wonderful words he used when I was about two-thirds of the way through the book, when I noticed what a difference they were making, but he pulls up so many underused, evocative, fun to hear in my head, words that imbue life into the prose like the soundtrack of a Guardians of the Galaxy movie recalls jammin' songs that we haven't tho ...more

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