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**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

Publisher Review

Standing out even during a recent golden age of nature writing, Ed Yong dazzles with a deeply considered exploration of the many modes of sensory perception that life has evolved to navigate the world, written with exhilarating freshness * Winner of 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * [A] wondrous, lustrous, captivating book: Ed Yong’s An Immense World… left me awed and stunned – and revolted by humanity’s destructive pride and planetary abuse * Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year* * Full of extraordinary discoveries… an encyclopaedic, rigorously researched journey… recasts the world in breath-taking, bewildering immensity * Daily Telegraph * A hymn to the wonders of evolution… fascinating * Mail on Sunday * Yong succeeds in bringing a sense of grandeur to life on every scale * Financial Times *