Summary of Thomas Halliday's Otherlands

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview:#1 The Alaskan horses are close to the size of ponies, and their coats are shaggy and dun. They are the truest inhabitants of the arid north, and they remain no matter the conditions. Their life expectancy is 15 years.

#2 The American lion, the largest of the three, is descended from ancestors that moved across from Eurasia about 340,000 years ago. The African lion is the daintiest. They are both large cats, and they hunt the same prey: horses and caribou.

#3 Ecosystems are built piecemeal. The aggregations of species that produce a sense of place also provide a sense of time. A community is a temporary association of living things that depends on evolutionary history, climate, geography, and chance.

#4 The first Americans were small communities of eastern Beringian humans, who thrived in the low plains of Beringia. As the climate changed, and humans gained an ever-deeper foothold in the continent, many of the native species died out.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669357667

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Insights on Thomas Halliday's Otherlands

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Alaskan horses are close to the size of ponies, and their coats are shaggy and dun. They are the truest inhabitants of the arid north, and they remain no matter the conditions. Their life expectancy is 15 years.

#2

The American lion, the largest of the three, is descended from ancestors that moved across from Eurasia about 340,000 years ago. The African lion is the daintiest. They are both large cats, and they hunt the same prey: horses and caribou.

#3

Ecosystems are built piecemeal. The aggregations of species that produce a sense of place also provide a sense of time. A community is a temporary association of living things that depends on evolutionary history, climate, geography, and chance.

#4

The first Americans were small communities of eastern Beringian humans, who thrived in the low plains of Beringia. As the climate changed, and humans gained an ever-deeper foothold in the continent, many of the native species died out.

#5

The Pleistocene North Slope in winter is one place where the environment passes out of the fundamental niche of many creatures. The constant ankle-stinging wind that hisses through the Ikpikpuk dunes is part of a vast anti-clockwise gyre of wind centred far to the south-west of here.

#6

The Beringian land bridge, which connected Alaska to Russia, was sunken by the sea. This province is just one part of an extensive biome that begins in eastern Beringia and ends on the Atlantic coast of Ireland.

#7

The steppe continues to exist because of its connectivity. Ice age weather patterns are volatile, and conditions can change dramatically from year to year. If you were to set up camp in one place for years, the populations would seem to go through extreme cycles of boom and bust, with the weather and plant life favoring horses, then bison, and so on.

#8

Summer begins in the Arctic, and the horses head to a low cloud swirling beyond a hillock. The hanging mist signals the presence