7/5/2023 0 Comments Thomas halliday books![]() ![]() You bring each site to life very vividly, no matter how alien its flora and fauna seem to us now. Eoghan Daltun’s An Irish Atlantic Rainforest is absolutely fantastic, a paean to rewilding and the benefits of letting nature do what it does best Africa is the least well-studied continent in terms of palaeontology, but there are sites there which are phenomenally interesting. The difficulties came in making sure I had a global representation of sites. ![]() I wanted to make sure that I covered not just the vertebrates that get done over and over – the dinosaurs and the ice age mammals – but a variety of places and times and environments. ![]() The idea of having one chapter for each geological division of time came fairly early on. It’s quite a challenge, distilling 550m years of natural history into 300 pages. ![]() When it won, I thought: maybe I can turn that approach into something longer form. A few years ago I entered the Hugh Miller writing competition and wrote about some of the earliest four-limbed vertebrates to come on to the land, which had been found in south-east Scotland. One thing that led to it was the idea that when we think about organisms in the past, we tend to talk about them in a family-tree sense, but never stop to think about what is going on in any given slice through time. Where did the idea for Otherlands come from? ![]()
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