Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for July 2023
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2023
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781529112115Number of pages: 464Weight: 366 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 29 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Immersive and mind-blowing.'- Peter Wohlleben,author ofThe Hidden Life of Trees
'A book that prompts awe at the world around us.'- TheSunday Times
'Suffused with magic.'- Siddhartha Mukherjee,author ofThe Song of the Cell
'Magnificent.'-The Guardian
'A delight... it prompts a radical rethink about the limits of what we know - what the world is,even. It is quite a book. And,I felt,putting it down,quite a world'-TheSunday Times
'Full of extraordinary discoveries... an encyclopaedic,rigorously researched journey... recasts the world in breath-taking,bewildering immensity'- Daily Telegraph
'A magic well of surprising,enlightening discoveries about the sensory worlds of other species... abrilliant book,marvellous and mesmerizing'- Jennifer Ackerman,author of The Genius of Birds
'I love this book. Reading it is a delightful sensory experience... I truly enjoyed Yong's adventures in Wonderland!'- Gaia Vince,author of Transcendence
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