An Immense World
Pulitzer-winning Atlantic science writer Ed Yong walks through the sensory worlds animals occupy that humans cannot access, from the electric fields catfish read along a riverbed to the polarized light bees navigate by, the ultrasonic worlds bats hunt inside, and the magnetic compasses migrating birds carry in their skulls. Yong moves species by species, sense by sense, building toward an argument that human perception is one narrow channel inside an enormous library of animal experience. The book draws on hundreds of interviews with sensory biologists and reframes the dominant-species story Sapiens readers know.
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Pulitzer-winning Atlantic writer Ed Yong opens the sensory worlds of animals, from electric-field catfish to magnetic-compass birds, in a 2022 popular-science blockbuster.
Yes. An Immense World was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and won several science writing awards. Ed Yong previously won a Pulitzer for his Atlantic COVID-19 reporting.
An Immense World was written by Ed Yong, published in 2022 by Random House.
An Immense World is a standalone novel by Ed Yong, not part of a series.
An Immense World is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.