601 reviews for:

Otherlands: Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

4.05 AVERAGE

e1ka's review against another edition

4.5

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

patuzi's review against another edition

4.0

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Almost lyrical writing- a good clean the house book.

arctic_benji's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

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Tough to read in so sections. Where I had background knowledge such as for the Cambrian made the chapter flow easier.

comptron's review

4.0

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fascinating and beautifully written, but also quite tough to get through (especially without a strong science background). each chapter unfolded with cinematic description of a disorienting and alien landscape of a corner of our earth at some time in the long distant past, at once sweeping and intimate in its detail. i don’t have enough grounding to fully appreciate what is special/revelatory/meaningful in each landscape, and i found i struggled without characters to “follow,” but each deep pre-history vignette was lushly evocative and intriguing nevertheless.

funky_reads's review against another edition

3.5

informative medium-paced

danpeachey's review against another edition

4.5

informative medium-paced

naahlii's review against another edition

3.0

informative medium-paced

helmimatilda's review against another edition

4.0

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

blueluma's review

4.75

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

weatherton's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous informative medium-paced

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Each chapter puts you in a different section of the globe at a different paleological era. As with many nature books, it wraps up with a depressing reflection on anthropogenic climate change, which I liked a bit less than the rest of the book.