***WINNER OF FOYLES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR***Watch thundering herds of dinosaurs crash through thick forests.Dive into a sea of glass reefs, emerging from the water to see monkeys fighting for survival on an accidental raft . . .**Travel millions of years into the past, to when dinosaurs and woolly mammoths roamed the earth.Find out how plants and trees and creatures great and small shared a world very...

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Brought to you by Penguin.A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to beWhat would it be like to visit the ancient landscapes of the past? To experience the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among these other lands, as creatures extinct for millions of years roam? In this mesmerizing debut, the award-winning palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath-taking up close encounter with worlds that a...