Summary
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, perc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529112115 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529112117 |
| Author: | Ed Yong |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Standing out even during a recent golden age of nature writing, Ed Yong dazzles with a deeply considered exploration of the many modes of sensory perception that life has evolved to navigate the world, written with exhilarating freshness * 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
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and an internationally bestselling author.
His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was a New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize. His second book, An Immense World, won the Royal Society Science Book Prize and was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller.
He won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk award in 2021 for his coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024.
His work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, National Geographic, New Yorker, and Wired, among others. He also regularly gives talks and interviews, and his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.9 million people.
He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Liz Neeley and his corgi, Typo. He is almost certainly looking at birds right now.
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