FOYLES NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERTHE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING HIGHLY COMMENDEDLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES TELEGRAPH PROSPECT THE NEW YORKER AND BBC HISTORY WATERSTONES NONFICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHThe best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read Tom HollandEpically cinematic. A book of almost unimaginable riches Sunday TimesThis is the past as weve 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.Awardwinning 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.