Otherlands

Providing ‘an exploration of the Earth as it used to existâ€, Thomas Halliday visits 16 sites – one for each Cenozoic epoch and the preceding geological periods – and records what life they held. From animals surviving in the frozen Alaska of the Pleistocene, through pterosaurs in the Jurassic and creatures that roamed Pangaea, to the emergence of stromatolites, he tells the story of a planet that becomes ever less familiar over the course of millions of years.