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An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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The stunning Sunday Times bestseller that will transform the way you perceive the world - from Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.
SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
This is our world, as you've never seen it before.
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of this world.
In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, welcoming us into previously unfathomable dimensions - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. Showing us that in order to understand our world, we don't need to travel to other places; we need to see through other eyes.
A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
Winner of the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
'Immersive and mind-blowing' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
'A book that prompts awe at the world around us' Sunday Times
'Suffused with magic' Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Song of the Cell
'Magnificent' Guardian
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An Immense World by Ed Yong is highly praised for its captivating and fresh exploration of animal sensory perception. Reviewers commend its rigorous research and marvel at the extraordinary discoveries presented. The book is described as a stunning, immersive achievement that broadens our understanding of the natural world and our place within it.
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ISBN: 9781529112115
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 June 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 369g
Pages: 464
About the Author
Ed Yong's first book, I Contain Multitudes, about the amazing partnerships between microbes and animals, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Wellcome Book Prize. It was a New York Times bestseller. He is a science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honours. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times, Scientific American, and more. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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