A review by sarahweyand
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

I have told a lot of people that this book is like the Planet Earth TV series in literature form, and I really think that's the best way to describe it. I learned so much while reading, more than almost any nonfiction book I've read this year. Yong is a wonderful author and is so thorough, yet readable. It takes a great amount of work to convey the senses through text, and I think he did a fantastic job. I could easily see this book being turned into a miniseries.

An Immense World is certainly not light reading. While Yong succeeds in breaking down complex topics and ideas into digestible chunks of information, this isn't exactly a beach read. At times I felt the pace was a little slow, and I occasionally felt like I was drowning in new concepts..

If you're willing to get down an dirty with a dense but beautiful text about some new and familiar animals, this is absolutely the book for you.
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