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BESTSELLERTHE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY
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NON-FICTION'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have
ever read' Tom Holland'Epically cinematic... A book of almost
unimaginable riches' Sunday TimesThis is the past as we've never
seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into
deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds
that were here before ours.Travelling back in time to the dawn of
complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young
palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close
encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant.
Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the
mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene
Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran
Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit
the birthplace of humanity, we hear the crashing of the highest
waterfall the Earth has ever known, and we watch as life emerges
again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal
dawns.These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description
- whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs
in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is
grounded in the fossil record. Otherlands is a staggering
imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the
tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent
ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500
million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but
as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.
Úprimná spoveď matky – manželky, ktorú zlé rozhodnutia vženú priamo
do náruče odborníkov. Ako žena, matka a manželka si je vedomá
svojich chýb, ťarcha rozhodnutí je však oveľa silnejšia. Stráca
nielen svoju rodinu, ale aj to, čo jej bolo najbližšie. Svoje deti.
Skutočný príbeh, tak trochu drsný, trochu podaný s vtipom o ženách,
mužoch a deťoch, ktorým jediné rozhodnutie zmenilo život. V poradí
štrnásta kniha od obľúbenej Evity Urbaníkovej prináša príbeh, ktorý
je zasadený do prostredia rodiny a medziľudských vzťahov. Citát:
Niekedy máme v živote jednoducho smolu. Niekedy sa dostaneme do
prúseru, ani nevieme ako. Ale niekedy si za všetko, čo sa deje,
môžeme sami.
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