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An Immense World

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

by Ed Yong
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/08/2023

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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 but a tiny sliver of our immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension-the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth's magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover 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. Throughout, acclaimed science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, showing us that to understand our world we don't need to travel to other places-we need to see through other eyes.
ISBN:
9780593133255
9780593133255
Category:
Wildlife: general interest
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-08-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
202.18x132.84x26.42mm
Weight:
0.37kg
Ed Yong

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.

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