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.
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*
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