巨大的世界：动物的感官如何揭示我们周围的隐藏领域 英文原版 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us EdYong

基本信息

Format Hardback | 464 pages

Dimensions 164 x 243 x 38mm | 799g

Publication date 21 Jun 2022

Publisher Random House USA Inc

Language English

ISBN10 0593133234

ISBN13 9780593133231

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《纽约时报》畅销书--普利策奖得主科学记者埃德-永 "惊心动魄"（《纽约时报》）、"令人眼花缭乱"（《华尔街日报》）的作品，展示了动物感知世界的截然不同的方式，将使你充满好奇，并永远改变你的观点。

"今年优秀的叙事性非虚构作品之一"--《奥普拉日报》。

地球充满了视觉和纹理、声音和振动、气味和味道、电场和磁场。但是每一种动物，包括人类，都被封闭在自己独特的感官泡泡中，只能感知到我们巨大世界的一小部分。

在《巨大的世界》中，埃德-阿勇哄骗我们超越我们自己的感官范围，让我们感知我们周围的气味、电磁波和压力脉冲。我们遇到了被火吸引的甲虫，能够追踪地球磁场的海龟，让河流充满电信息的鱼，甚至还有像蝙蝠一样挥舞声纳的人类。我们发现鳄鱼有鳞的脸就像情人的指尖一样敏感，巨型乌贼的眼睛是为了看到闪闪发光的鲸鱼而进化的，植物发出求偶虫听不见的歌声，甚至简单的扇贝也有复杂的视觉。我们了解到蜜蜂在花中看到了什么，鸣禽在其曲调中听到了什么，以及狗在街上闻到了什么。我们听着现场关键性发现的故事，同时展望许多尚未解决的谜团。

有趣、严谨、充满发现的喜悦，《巨大的世界》将我们带入了马塞尔-普鲁斯特所说的 "真正的旅行......不是为了访问陌生的土地，而是为了拥有其他的眼睛。"

入围Kirkus奖

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling" (The New York Times), "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong

"One of this year's finest works of narrative nonfiction."--Oprah Daily

The 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, 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."

FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE

作者简介

埃德-永是普利策奖得主，是《大西洋》杂志的科学作家，他在那里还获得了乔治-波尔克科学报道奖以及其他荣誉。他的书《我包含众多》是《纽约时报》的畅销书，并赢得了许多奖项。他的作品出现在《纽约客》、《国家地理》、《连线》、《纽约时报》、《科学美国人》等杂志上。他与他的妻子Liz Neeley和他们的柯基犬Typo住在华盛顿特区。

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.