{"product_id":"otherlands-by-thomas-halliday-book-price-in-bangladesh","title":"Otherlands by Dr Thomas Halliday","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Otherlands by Dr Thomas Halliday – A Clear Journey Through Earth’s Lost Worlds and Ancient Ecosystems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOtherlands by Dr Thomas Halliday takes readers through sixteen ancient ecosystems from different points in Earth’s history. Each chapter visits a real fossil site and rebuilds the plants, animals, climate, land, water, and relationships that once existed there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe journey moves backward through time. It starts near the last Ice Age and continues toward the earliest complex life more than 500 million years ago. Halliday visits places that later became Alaska, Kenya, Italy, Antarctica, Australia, and other parts of the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book uses evidence from fossils, rocks, chemistry, climate records, and modern biology. Halliday explains what scientists can learn from these clues and then describes each lost world in a clear, visual way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReaders meet mammoths, early humans, giant penguins, dinosaurs, strange sea life, ancient forests, and many species that no longer exist. The book also explains how ecosystems change when climate, geography, and living things change together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSixteen Ancient Worlds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOtherlands is organized as a series of visits to different periods and places.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach chapter focuses on one ecosystem. Halliday explains the landscape first and then introduces the plants and animals that lived there. He shows how they found food, avoided danger, reproduced, moved, and responded to their surroundings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis structure makes a very large subject easier to follow. Earth history covers hundreds of millions of years, so dividing it into individual places gives readers something clear to picture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIce Age grasslands, Eocene forests, Jurassic islands, and Ediacaran seas had their own climate, food webs, and physical conditions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReaders can move from one lost world to another while learning the basic ideas behind palaeontology, evolution, geology, and ecology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Journey Moves Backward Through Time\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMost history books move from the oldest period toward the present. Halliday takes the opposite direction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book begins with a world that feels closer to ours and then travels farther into deep time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis choice helps readers notice how familiar things slowly disappear. Mammals change. Flowering plants become less common. Continents move. Seas open and close. Entire groups of animals appear in later chapters only because the reader is moving backward toward their beginnings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe farther the book goes, the less familiar Earth becomes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalliday keeps the timeline understandable by focusing on one place at a time. Readers do not need to memorize every geological period to enjoy the journey.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFossils Provide the Evidence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe scenes in Otherlands are based on scientific evidence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFossils can preserve bones, teeth, shells, leaves, pollen, footprints, burrows, and other traces of life. Rocks can provide information about water, temperature, soil, volcanoes, and ancient environments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScientists combine these clues to build a picture of a lost ecosystem.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalliday explains how researchers can make careful conclusions from material that may be millions of years old. A tooth can suggest diet. A limb can suggest movement. Pollen can show which plants grew nearby. Chemical signals can give clues about temperature or rainfall.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book also makes clear that scientific knowledge can change when new fossils, methods, or evidence appear. Reconstructing the past requires evidence, comparison, and careful interpretation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePliocene Kenya and Early Human Relatives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the places visited in the book is Pliocene Kenya.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalliday describes a landscape where early human relatives lived among many other animals. The scene helps place human evolution inside a wider ecosystem rather than treating it as a separate story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReaders see the kinds of plants, predators, prey, and environmental conditions that shaped life in the region.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe chapter includes australopithecines and shows them as animals living in a real environment with daily risks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis approach helps make early human history easier to picture. Instead of seeing only a fossil skull in a museum, the reader can think about the climate, trees, food, and other species around that individual.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHuman evolution becomes one part of Earth’s much larger biological history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEocene Antarctica Was Green\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eModern Antarctica is covered by ice, but it has not always looked that way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOtherlands takes readers into an Eocene Antarctic forest during a much warmer period in Earth’s history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe continent supported rich plant life and animals that would seem surprising in Antarctica today. Penguin describes the book’s journey through lush Antarctic rainforests and colonies of giant penguins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt also helps readers understand that the positions of continents and the global climate have never been fixed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAntarctica’s past shows why fossils are useful when scientists study climate history. Evidence of forests and animals in places that are now frozen tells us that Earth has passed through very different conditions before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Mediterranean Has Changed Too\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalliday also visits the region that became the Mediterranean.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt one point in its history, the Mediterranean basin experienced major changes in water level and connection with the Atlantic Ocean.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book describes a landscape very different from the sea people know today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGeological events can change habitats on an enormous scale. Water can disappear, return, isolate populations, connect regions, and change the movement of animals and plants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy placing readers inside these old landscapes, Halliday makes geology easier to understand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe shapes on a modern map can feel permanent because they change too slowly for a person to notice. Over millions of years, coastlines, mountains, seas, and islands can become completely different.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDinosaurs Are Part of a Larger Ecosystem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDinosaurs appear in the book, but Halliday also pays attention to the world around them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlants, insects, small animals, climate, water, and geography all matter when explaining how an ecosystem worked.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis wider view is useful because prehistoric books often focus heavily on the largest animals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOtherlands asks readers to think about food webs and relationships. A predator depends on prey. Herbivores depend on plants. Plants depend on soil, water, light, and sometimes animals. Changes in one part of the system can affect many others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalliday also explains how species migrate, adapt, cooperate, compete, and disappear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis makes the book valuable for readers interested in ecology as well as dinosaurs and fossils.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExtinction Happens More Than Once\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEarth’s history includes several major extinction events as well as many smaller losses.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOtherlands shows ecosystems before and after large changes. Species that once filled a landscape can disappear, and other groups can later take their place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalliday uses these patterns to explain that ecosystems can be both strong and fragile.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLife often continues after major disruption, but the species and environments that return may be very different from what existed before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe past gives readers examples of environmental change on a scale much larger than recorded human history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeep Time Becomes Easier to Picture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumbers such as 50 million or 500 million years can be difficult to imagine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalliday handles this problem by describing specific places in detail.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA reader can picture a forest, a shoreline, an animal moving through grass, or a group feeding near water. These images give each period a physical setting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book still includes dates and scientific information, but the landscape descriptions help prevent the numbers from becoming abstract.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis approach is useful for general readers who want to learn about deep time without reading a textbook.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClimate Change Is Part of Earth’s History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEarth’s climate has changed many times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTemperatures have risen and fallen. Ice sheets have expanded and disappeared. Sea levels have changed. Atmospheric conditions have also changed over geological time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOtherlands explains these shifts through particular ecosystems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePast changes show how strongly climate can affect life, migration, extinction, and geography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA warmer or cooler world does not simply change the temperature. It can change rainfall, vegetation, oceans, food webs, and where species are able to live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Book Connects Past and Present\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalliday frequently brings the reader back to the modern world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAncient ecosystems can help explain why current ecosystems deserve careful attention. Places that look permanent today can change or disappear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePenguin Random House highlights the Great Barrier Reef as one example. A huge ecosystem can seem too large to lose, yet the fossil record shows repeated examples of major environmental change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book uses deep history to give context to present concerns about biodiversity, climate, and conservation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReaders can learn about ancient life while also gaining a wider view of the planet today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten for General Readers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThomas Halliday is a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist, but Otherlands is written for a broad audience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book introduces scientific ideas through places, animals, and clear examples. Readers may meet unfamiliar terms, but they are usually connected to a scene that helps explain them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis makes the book suitable for people who enjoy popular science, natural history, evolution, geology, palaeontology, climate science, and wildlife.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStudents can also use it to build a wider understanding of how these subjects connect.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe writing has enough scientific detail to teach something useful while remaining readable for people who do not work in science.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecognition and Publication Details\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOtherlands was first published by Allen Lane in 2022.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePenguin published the UK paperback in February 2023. Penguin Random House lists a U.S. paperback edition from February 14, 2023, with 416 pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the 2022 James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePenguin also describes Thomas Halliday as the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Otherlands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Dr Thomas Halliday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThomas Halliday is a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis research focuses on long-term patterns in the fossil record, especially mammals. Penguin lists him as an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Birmingham.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis PhD received the Linnean Society’s John C. Marsden Medal, and he won the Hugh Miller Writing Competition in 2018.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook Quality at Bookish Wonderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBookish Wonderland offers this title with premium eye-soothing cream paper, crystal-clear printing, and high-quality stitched plus glue binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe softer paper tone can feel comfortable during longer reading sessions. Clear printing helps with scientific names, dates, and detailed descriptions. 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For stock, customization, or delivery questions, you can contact Bookish Wonderland through Facebook or Instagram.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Good Choice for Science and Nature Readers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOtherlands by Dr Thomas Halliday gives readers a broad view of Earth’s past through sixteen carefully rebuilt ecosystems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book covers animals, plants, climate, geology, extinction, evolution, and the way living things depend on their surroundings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIts chapter structure makes a very large subject easier to understand. Each lost world becomes a clear example of how Earth has changed through deep time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReaders who enjoy natural history, fossils, evolution, prehistoric life, climate science, or environmental writing should find useful material throughout the book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOrder your copy from Bookish Wonderland for nationwide delivery, Cash on Delivery, premium cream paper, clear printing, and strong stitched plus glue binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you require any customization or have any questions, please inbox us via FB or Insta.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookish Wonderland","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43732737720417,"sku":null,"price":373.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43732737753185,"sku":null,"price":457.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/1788\/8609\/files\/Otherlands_by_Dr_Thomas_Halliday_in_BD.jpg?v=1789254456","url":"https:\/\/bookishwonderland.com\/products\/otherlands-by-thomas-halliday-book-price-in-bangladesh","provider":"Bookish Wonderland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}