An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER)
Ed Yong
** WINNER OF THE 2023 ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE ** AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **
This is our world, as you've never seen it before.
'Immersive and mind-blowing' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
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 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction**
'Suffused with magic' Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Song of the Cell
'A book that prompts awe at the world around us' Sunday Times
Sunday Times bestseller, July 2023
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Reviews for An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER)
Winner of 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
[A] wondrous, lustrous, captivating book: Ed Yong's An Immense World... left me awed and stunned - and revolted by humanity's destructive pride and planetary abuse
Times Literary Supplement,
Books of the Year
Full of extraordinary discoveries... an encyclopaedic, rigorously researched journey... recasts the world in breath-taking, bewildering immensity
Daily Telegraph
A hymn to the wonders of evolution... fascinating
Mail on Sunday
Yong succeeds in bringing a sense of grandeur to life on every scale
Financial Times
Not just a study of the myriad wonders of the natural world - though wondrous they are - but also a panoramic, complex portrait of the sensory capacities that underpin a multitude of life. ... In uncovering all this, Yong also shows why we should give more thought to our place in the world.
New Statesman,
Best Books of 2022
An Immense World is an exploration of the ways in which our fellow creatures navigate, understand and interact with one another and their environment through senses. ... The result is so mind-boggling, it's tempting to say 'forget looking in deep space for astonishment'. But let's not do that. Let's continue searching there while also paying better attention to the miracles right under our noses. Yong's marvellous book shows us how.
Spectator,
Best Books of 2022
This book lifts the shroud on previously invisible dimensions of the world itself
Economist,
Books of the Year
A magic well of surprising, enlightening discoveries about the sensory worlds of other species... A brilliant book, marvellous and mesmerizing
Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Genius of Birds A stunning achievement - steeped in science but suffused with magic
Siddhartha Mukherjee, author The Emperor of All Maladies