Really loved this combination of a modern day travelogue through space and a historical travel through time. I find the book engagingly written, though it is quite scholarly. The photographs give the book a nice touch. Recommended for biologists, palaeontologists, geologists and enthusiastic non-professionals with a strong interest in those fields.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for this arc. I love history and this book was fascinating. I highly recommend it.

So many thanks to NetGalley and the Columbia University Press for the opportunity to read this wonderful book!

This was such a joy! I have to admit that this topic might not be "for all" but it was in wheelhouse. Loved the explanation of 12 sites and their history. I am not a geologist but maybe I should be. The author takes the reader on a planet-wide journey to look at the history of land formations. If this sounds "interesting", you will love this book. Well-written and totally engaging. Well-recommended!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!

I studied this area some in college and loved picking up a book by a scholar in the field to dive back in. Excellent and thorough!

Islands in Deep Time is an interesting book if you love to learn more about nature and its evolution. I loved the detailed explanation with which the writer elaborated his findings. The book follows the style of a travelogue, and we are made to participate in the excursion that he and his team underwent in these regions. Wherever the description took a difficult technical turn, accompanying maps, photos, and pictures helped a lot. I was especially fascinated with the several photos of fossils, which made me marvel at the long periods, spanning millions of years, when earth had only invertebrate life form or when all the present continents were combined together and several permutations and combinations they underwent to reach the present state.

The book ends with a chapter dedicated to the sacredness of islands and the need to preserve these immense storehouses of knowledge and wisdom from the deep past. It makes you connect more with nature and realise that we are just very minor players in the history of our planet.