An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | 誠品線上

五感之外的世界: 認識動物神奇的感知系統, 探見人類感官無法觸及的大自然

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內容簡介 《我擁群像》作者、新銳科普作家艾德．楊新作！以各種不同生物的感知系統，重新認識習以為常的大千世界☆英美媒體好評暢銷科普書普立茲獎得主引領我們超越五感，認識喜歡火的甲蟲、追踪地球磁場的海龜，甚至像蝙蝠一樣使用聲納的人類⋯地球充滿美景和紋理、聲音和振動、氣息和味道、電場和磁場⋯2021年普立茲釋義性報導獎得主、紐時暢銷書《I Contain Multitudes》作者Ed Yong，再次發揮其科普書寫長才，帶領讀者優遊大自然間、恣意切換視角，嘗試以各種不同生物的感知系統，重新認識我們習以為常的大千世界。Enter a new dimension—the world as it is truly perceived by other animals—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.“A stunning achievement, steeped in science but suffused with magic.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The GeneThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, author and Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong 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. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved. Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”"

作者介紹

作者介紹 Ed Yong Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he also won the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honors. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was a New York Times bestseller and won numerous awards. 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., with his wife, Liz Neeley, and their corgi, Typo.

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