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long-eared

and Catherine Rayner

There are elephant birds that stand as high as a basketball hoop and lay eggs as big as watermelons

Drawing on a lifetime of walking and climbing across Britain – and following an arc from the gentle Downs of southern England to the wild peaks of Scotland’s far north – Ian Crofton combines personal experiences with a keen curiosity about the history of mountain landscapes

Otherlands @CQGardensOtherlands 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. Award winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes that underscore the tenacity of life and 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