FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN
BESTSELLERTHE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY
COMMENDEDLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR
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.
Piate pokračovanie najúspešnejšej tínedžerskej fantasy ságy
súčasnosti. Prečítajte a podľahnite sérii Trón zo skla tak ako
milióny čitateľov po celom svete! Dlhá cesta na trón sa pre Aelin
Galathynius ešte len začala. Prisahala však, že sa svojmu
kráľovstvu už nikdy neotočí chrbtom. Hlavne, ak je jediná, kto
dokáže zostaviť armádu proti Temnému kráľovi a jeho beštiám. No
Erawan neohrozuje Aelin len svojím vojskom, ale aj tieňmi z jej
minulosti, bývalými spojencami a nepriateľmi. Na obzore sa však
črtá vojna nebývalých rozmerov a Aelin sa musí rozhodnúť, koho a čo
obetuje, aby zachránila svoj svet pred úplným zničením.
Stále hľadáte nejaké knihy on-line a už Vás nebaví prechádzať všetky e-shopy?
Nájdite všetky knihy, ktoré si chcete kúpiť. Pridajte si ich do košíka a nechajte nás, aby sme porovnali ceny a dostupnosť e-shopov s knihami a zobrazili Vám tie najvýhodnejšie ponuky!
Potom už stačí len prejsť do vybraného e-shopu a knihy si objednať...