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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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** WINNER OF THE 2023 ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE ** AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** Discover the world as you’ve never seen it before – through the eyes of animals. The perfect Christmas gift for readers interested in nature, animals and the world around us. ‘Immersive and mind-blowing’ Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of TreesThe 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 TimesSunday Times bestseller, July 2023
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| Weight | 0.371 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 464 |
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| Year Published | 2023-6-29 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1529112117 |
| About The Author | Ed Yong's first book, I Contain Multitudes, about the amazing partnerships between microbes and animals, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Wellcome Book Prize. It was a New York Times bestseller. He is a science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honours. 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. |
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 |
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| Other text | [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 |
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