An Immense World
by Ed Yong
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Ed Yong's 2022 landmark explores the concept of Umwelt — the unique sensory world each animal inhabits — through dozens of creatures whose experience of reality is radically unlike our own: the electric fields sensed by sharks, the magnetic compass of birds, the ultraviolet vision of butterflies. Yong writes with infectious wonder and rigorous scientific grounding, building a portrait of Earth as a planet of unimaginably diverse inner lives. The book ultimately asks us to practise a kind of radical sensory humility. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
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After reading Ed Yong, I can't walk past a spider or a sparrow without wondering what universe they're inhabiting right beside me. This book dismantles the arrogance of human-centered perception—every creature, it turns out, lives in a sensory world we can barely imagine. Yong writes with such wonder and clarity that you'll finish feeling both humbled and exhilarated, like the world just got infinitely larger.
Book Details
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- January 1, 2022
- Language
- English
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