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

by **Ed Yong** (Author)

**_NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER - 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,_ Chicago Public Library, _Outside, Publishers Weekly, BookPage  
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.

In _An Immense World,_ Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. 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 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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WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL - **FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD -** LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD**

### Author Biography

**Ed Yong** is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer on the staff of _The Atlantic_, where he also won the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honors. His first book, _I Contain Multitudes_, was a _New York Times_ bestseller and won numerous awards. 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., with his wife, Liz Neeley, and their corgi, Typo.

**Number of Pages:** 464

**Dimensions:** 1.7 x 9.4 x 6.4 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** June 21, 2022

**Award:** Kirkus Prize (2022)

**Award:** Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (2023)

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- **Price:** 32.0 USD
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