Otherlands

A World in the Making

Thomas Halliday

A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to be.

First published:: 2022
Published by:: Penguin Press
Length:: Hardcover 416 pages

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About the author

Thomas Halliday is an Associate Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham. His PhD won the Linnean Society Medal for the best thesis in the biological sciences in the UK, and he won the Hugh Miller Writing Competition in 2018. He was raised in Rannoch in the Scottish Highlands, and now lives in London with his family.