2023/155: Otherlands — Thomas Halliday

2023/155: Otherlands — Thomas Halliday

You can never visit the environments through which titanic dinosaurs strode, never walk on their soil nor swim in their water. The only way to experience them is rockwise, to read the imprints in the frozen sand and to imagine a disappeared Earth. [loc. 440]

Halliday's evocative, poetic journey into the past of our planet is an immensely readable survey of what's preserved in the fossil record.( Read more... )