**Winner of the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize**
Discover the world as you've never seen it before - through the eyes of animals.
'Immersive and mind-blowing' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
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 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 Times
Sunday Times bestseller, July 2023
The Sunday Times Bestseller on how animal senses reveal the world around us
Award-winning science writer Ed Yong takes readers on an astonishing journey through the hidden senses of Earth's creatures. From the magnetic compass of migratory birds to the ultraviolet vision of bees and the echolocation of bats, Yong welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.
Drawing on the latest research in neurobiology and animal behaviour, An Immense World explores how each species lives within its unique environment, uncovering the sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields that form its sensory bubble of experience.
This is science writing at its most transporting: 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.
Winner of the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
A New York Times, Guardian, Economist, Spectator, TLS and New Statesman Book of the Year
'Immersive and mind-blowing' Peter Wohlleben
'Suffused with magic' Siddhartha Mukherjee
'A book that prompts awe at the world around us' Sunday Times
