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“thomas halliday”

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  • Otherlands

    Journeys in Earth's Extinct Ecosystems

    by Thomas Halliday ...
    ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE*Shortlisted for Waterstones’s “Book of the Year 2022”One of:The New Yorker’s “The Best Books of 2022 So Far”Telegraph’s “50 best books of 2022”Sapiens for natural history: a stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

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    Otherlands

    A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

    by Thomas Halliday ...
    Narrated by Adetomiwa Edun ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    “Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ... Read more

    $27.00 CAD

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    The Lost Rainforests of Britain

    by Guy Shrubsole ...
    Narrated by Guy Shrubsole ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary PrizeTemperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain, inspiring Celtic druids, ... ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Walking the Bones of Britain

    A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

    by Christopher Somerville ...
    Narrated by Christopher Somerville ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 5 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walking correspondent of The Times and author of Coast, The January Man and Ships of Heaven) sets out to interrogate the land beneath our feet, and how it has affected every aspect of human history from farming to house construction, the Industrial Revolution to the current climate crisis ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Venomous Lumpsucker

    WINNER of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023

    by Ned Beauman ...
    Narrated by John Hastings ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    *******Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award********SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR*'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily MailThe venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might have just... ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Horizons

    A Global History of Science

    by James Poskett ...
    Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 21 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative.We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. Science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour.Copernicus relied on mathematical ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    A Brief History of Earth

    Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

    by Andrew H. Knoll ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 57 min

    ***How well do you know the ground beneath your feet?***A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist.“A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Walking the Bones of Britain

    A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

    by Christopher Somerville ...
    ‘Somerville’s infectious enthusiasm and wry humour infuse his journey from the Isle of Lewis to southern England, revealing our rich geological history with vibrant local and natural history’ Observer**‘A meticulous exploration of the ground beneath our feet. Glorious’ Katharine Norbury‘A remarkable achievement’ Tom Chesshyre**‘His writing is utterly enticing’ Country Walking...................... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Lost Rainforests of Britain

    by Guy Shrubsole ...
    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary PrizeTemperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain, inspiring Celtic druids, ... ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Venomous Lumpsucker

    WINNER of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023

    by Ned Beauman ...
    *SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR*'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily MailThe venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might have just gone extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody really cares, eit... ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

    A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

    by Steve Brusatte ...
    By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new natural history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us[New Scientist; The Times UK]National Bestseller • Top 10 Nonfiction of the Year: Kirkus • Best Science Book of the Year: The Times UKWe humans are the inheritors of a dynasty ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Horizons

    A Global History of Science

    by James Poskett ...
    'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from historyIn this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.The blinkered Western gaze focusing... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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