Sherlock Holmes: the Coils of Time & Other Stories (Sherlock Holmes Adventures book 1)
“Down the long ages of time they sped.
History rewound around them, the age of steam and coal giving way to less technological times, when the epitome of science was the catapult and the well-tempered sword. London shrank before their eyes, becoming a raw-boned port upon a river of trade, then a Roman outpost beside a river of exploration; it became a camp for hunters and fishers upon the sluggish river’s swampy banks, one of the dark places of the Earth where men chanted to umbrous gods and painted themselves blue.
Down the long dark centuries they flew, into the age of unpolished stone and into that distant realm where human foot had not yet tread that blessed green isle. Great beasts no longer extant flashed across their vision, mastodons and giant sloths, then the magnificent and terrible lizards of yore, dinosaurs of the land and leather-winged pterosaurs of the upper airs. Even these strange beasts of legend, however, gave way to other, more remarkable beasts, whose fo...ssil remains were only now being wrested from the chalk cliffs of England.MoreLess
History rewound around them, the age of steam and coal giving way to less technological times, when the epitome of science was the catapult and the well-tempered sword. London shrank before their eyes, becoming a raw-boned port upon a river of trade, then a Roman outpost beside a river of exploration; it became a camp for hunters and fishers upon the sluggish river’s swampy banks, one of the dark places of the Earth where men chanted to umbrous gods and painted themselves blue.
Down the long dark centuries they flew, into the age of unpolished stone and into that distant realm where human foot had not yet tread that blessed green isle. Great beasts no longer extant flashed across their vision, mastodons and giant sloths, then the magnificent and terrible lizards of yore, dinosaurs of the land and leather-winged pterosaurs of the upper airs. Even these strange beasts of legend, however, gave way to other, more remarkable beasts, whose fo...ssil remains were only now being wrested from the chalk cliffs of England.MoreLess
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