An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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A thrilling tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong.
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 but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.
We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth's magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved.
In An Immense World, author and acclaimed science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. Because in order to understand our world, we don't need to travel to other places; we need to see through other eyes.
About this Author
ED YONG is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he also won the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honours. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was a New York Times bestseller and won numerous awards. 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.
Reviews
"A thrilling tour of nonhuman perception . . . Nature's true wonders aren't limited to a remote wilderness or other sublime landscape. . . . There is as much grandeur in the soil of a backyard garden as there is in the canyons of Zion." --The New York Times
"A dazzling ride through the sensory world of astoundingly sophisticated creatures . . . It's Mr. Yong's task to expand our thinking, to rouse our sense of wonder, to help us feel humbled and exalted at the capabilities of our fellow inhabitants on Earth. . . . [A] deeply affectionate travelogue of animal sensory wonders." --The Wall Street Journal
"My favourite kind of book right now explains, with clarity and humour, how the world works, and no one is better at this than science writer Ed Yong. . . . An Immense World restores our wonder to animals--by describing the very different sensory worlds they inhabit. . . . Each page is a peek inside hidden alcoves, suddenly available." --Chicago Tribune
"A fascinating, mind-altering exploration of animal senses and the various ways animals have evolved to experience their surroundings. . . . The result is a project that provokes awe."--Tea Obreht, The Guardian
"Yong isn't just reconciling science writing and storytelling in this book. He's making a new form, one with deep roots in American magazine writing and growing towards a more interdisciplinary future. . . . [An Immense World] has helped me to witness forms of beauty I had no idea existed." --National Book Critics' Circle
"One of this year's finest works of narrative nonfiction . . . Yong's reporting is layered, seasoned with vivid scenes from laboratories and in the field, interviews with researchers across a spectrum of disciplines." --Oprah Daily
"Yong is an amazing interlocutor, puzzling through the mysteries of [the animal world] with plenty of anecdotes from his own reporting, from the informative to the downright entertaining. His writing invites us to delight in the world and the tools we use to understand it. . . . It's hard to overstate just how good Ed Yong is." --Literary Hub
"An Immense World takes you into the fascinating realm of animal sense. . . . If . . . your soul needs a break--and some damn joy--An Immense World is a trip worth taking." --Mother Jones
"A delight. . . . [An Immense World] 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." --The Times (UK)
"A powerful and immersive deep dive into the perceptual lives of other organisms--and a persuasive case for more empathy and understanding of the complexity, sophistication, and sheer riotous joy of the nonhuman world--it's an instant classic."--Jeff VanderMeer, author of Authority
"I don't know how to put into words the awe I felt while reading this book--for the incredible sensory diversity of our planet, and for Ed Yong's talents." --Mary Roach, author of Stiff
"There is almost no writer I admire as much as I do Ed Yong. He's an extraordinary reporter and a writer of such grace that his work seems effortless. An Immense World is a journal of discovery and animal magic, and a sensory exploration that is a joy to read."--Susan Orlean, author of On Animals
"What would we do without Ed Yong? This book feels like a tremendous burst of oxygen, animating everything around us with life and color and texture and wonder at precisely the moment we all need it."--Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
"An Immense World is an expansive, constantly revelatory exploration of the biosphere's sensorium, from the rigidly pheromonic behavioral programming of ants to the constant subsonic conversations of elephants. Ed Yong is my favorite contemporary science writer."--William Gibson, author of Agency
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