An Immense World

The stunning Sunday Times bestseller that will transform the way you perceive the world – from Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.

SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This is our world, as you’ve never seen it before.

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

‘Immersive and mind-blowing’ Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees

‘A book that prompts awe at the world around us’ Sunday Times

‘Suffused with magic’ Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Song of the Cell

‘Magnificent’ Guardian

Author Biography

Ed Yong’s first book, I Contain Multitudes, about the amazing partnerships between microbes and animals, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Wellcome Book Prize. It was a New York Times bestseller. He is a science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honours. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times, Scientific American, and more. He lives in Washington, D.C.