- Published: 1 November 2022
- ISBN: 9781847926098
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $35.00
An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK)















- Published: 1 November 2022
- ISBN: 9781847926098
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $35.00
Every page finds the reader mouthing quiet whoa's, as the world she thought she knew opens out into a hundred others, improbable, strange, and fabulous.
Mary Roach, author of Fuzz and Stiff
A cornucopia of wonders... a fascinating reminder of the humbling truth that most of what happens among life forms on Earth is beyond our ken
David Quammen, author of Spillover
A journal of discovery and animal magic, a sensory exploration that is a joy to read
Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief
A whirlwind tour of animal perceptual abilities. A magnificent book
Frans de Waal, author of Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
Magnificent - an unbelievably immersive and mind-blowing account of how other animals experience our world
Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees and The Inner Life of Animals
An expansive, constantly revelatory exploration of the biosphere's sensorium... Ed Yong is my favourite contemporary science writer
William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and The Peripheral
An Immense World took my hand and brought me on a journey I'll never forget. After reading this book, I'll never look at our planet the same way again
Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed
I love this book. Reading it is a delightful sensory experience... I truly enjoyed Yong's adventures in Wonderland!
Gaia Vince, author of Transcendence
A magic well of surprising, enlightening discoveries about the sensory worlds of other species... A brilliant book, marvellous and mesmerizing
Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Genius of Birds
A stunning achievement - steeped in science but suffused with magic
Siddhartha Mukherjee, author The Emperor of All Maladies
Like stepping into a new kind of Alice in Wonderland. The perfect mixture of revelation, curiosity, science, beautiful prose and buckets full of wonders
Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
A delight... it prompts a radical rethink about the limits of what we know - what the world is, even. It is quite a book. And, I felt, putting it down, quite a world
Sunday Times
Full of extraordinary discoveries... an encyclopaedic, rigorously researched journey... recasts the world in breath-taking, bewildering immensity
Daily Telegraph
A tour of places that are, in essence, unknowable... Yet Yong...proves an outstanding guide... Beautifully written and painstakingly researched... this fantastic book leaves you wondering what else is left to be discovered
The Times, *Book of the Week*
Both eye-opening and humbling
Radio Times
Remarkable... a delight, a book that prompts awe at the world around us
Sunday Times, *Summer Reads of 2022*