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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