OTHERLANDS: A WORLD IN THE MAKING
By Thomas Halliday
Synopsis
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 humanity in Pliocene-era Kenya; in the Jurassic, we wander among dinosaur-inhabited islands in the Mediterranean; and we gaze at the light of an enormous moon in the Ediacaran sky, when life hasn't yet reached land.
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| Narrator | Adetomiwa Edun |
|---|---|
| Length | 11hrs |
| Catalogue No. | 15899 |
| Publisher | Penguin Audio; 2022 |