

In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page. rewinds the story of life on Earth-from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago."- The Economist LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "One of those rare books that's both deeply informative and daringly imaginative."-Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Prospect (UK) The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before.
