A review by annabrewer972
Otherlands: Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday

3.0

I really thought I would like this book but I couldn't get into it. I found it hard to see how everything fitted together and felt that there was neither a broad enough overview of each era, nor specific enough deep dives into particular species. Going backwards in time also didn't help - it made it hard to see the development and the changes from one era to another. The inclusion of maps was useful but they could have benefited from more labels, as the majority of the places mentioned in the text weren't marked. In addition, more illustrations would have definitely made it easier to imagine the fauna and thus the geological age.