An Immense World An Immense World

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

    • 4.5 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description

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A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) 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

“One of this year’s finest works of narrative nonfiction.”—Oprah Daily

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, People, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Publishers Weekly, BookPage


ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Globe and Mail, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Library 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.”

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2022
June 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
30.7
MB

Customer Reviews

JDS-Poppy ,

An immense world

A thoughtful and well edited book opening up the wonders of a world to which most of us must be ignorant.
Thank you for a fascinating read.

Piginapoke ,

Remarkable

More substance and more detail than I’ve found in almost any other book. Combined with charm and readability. Amazing work.

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