![]() ![]() The difficulties came in making sure I had a global representation of sites. I wanted to make sure that I covered not just the vertebrates that get done over and over β the dinosaurs and the ice age mammals β but a variety of places and times and environments. The idea of having one chapter for each geological division of time came fairly early on. Itβs quite a challenge, distilling 550m years of natural history into 300 pages. ![]() ![]() When it won, I thought: maybe I can turn that approach into something longer form. A few years ago I entered the Hugh Miller writing competition and wrote about some of the earliest four-limbed vertebrates to come on to the land, which had been found in south-east Scotland. One thing that led to it was the idea that when we think about organisms in the past, we tend to talk about them in a family-tree sense, but never stop to think about what is going on in any given slice through time. Where did the idea for Otherlands come from? ![]()
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