An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
21 June 2022
Pages
464
ISBN
9780593133231

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong takes us on a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception (The New York Times), allowing us to experience the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that other animals perceive.

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

A dazzling ride through the sensory world of astoundingly sophisticated creatures. -The Wall Street Journal

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses to encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who 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 that remain unsolved.

Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called the only true voyage … not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.

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