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An Immense World

byEd Yong

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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**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 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

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

About 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, founder of Liminal Creations, and his corgi, Typo. He is almost certainly looking at birds right now.
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Details
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9781529112115
  • Length: 464 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 29mm x 128mm
  • Weight: 368g
  • Price: £12.99
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