Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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  • aggregatedRating: 🙂okay (3/5),
  • author: Thomas Halliday,
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  • genre: non-fiction,
  • name: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds,
  • review: This was not a book I found myself being absorbed into despite the breadth of content and the topic. This is because the eras are structured most recent first and then the ancient ones at last - perhaps because we know so much more about the recent time rather than the oldest ones. But it meant that I had to read backwards on what came about rather than reading how evolution worked. In addition, the narration was filled to the brim with rapid facts - and at some point I started suspecting how it can be that so much details are available across so many ages. Which means that it was perhaps an extrapolated fiction - which is not a problem for a pop-science documentary but it is indeed a problem if you are looking for something more educational and authoritative. Still, this is a good book to understand the variances of flora and fauna and would make for a good 'coffee table' addition.,
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