Ed Yong 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. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was a New York Times bestseller, exploring the amazing partnerships between microbes and animals.
Toppings are very excited to welcome him to the bookshop for his new book, An Immense World. Here, Ed coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us.
Because in order to understand our world we don’t need to travel to other places; we need to see through other eyes.
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 but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions – the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.