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地球，充滿各種景色與紋理、聲音與震動、氣味與味道，還有電場與磁場。但每一種動物，包括人類，都被侷限在自己獨特的感官泡泡中，我們所能感知僅僅是這龐大世界中的一小部分。
在這本書中，作者艾德・楊帶領讀者突破感官的侷限，紀錄並展示那些圍繞在我們周遭、卻無法被察覺的氣味絲線、電磁波與壓力脈衝。
他探索會被火吸引的甲蟲，和能追蹤地球磁場的烏龜，以及在河中釋放電訊號的魚，甚至如同蝙蝠一樣運用聲納的人類；
他發現鱷魚鱗片上的臉部感知，竟像指尖般敏銳；巨型魷魚的雙眼，則是為了察覺鯨魚身上的反光而演化；
看似靜默的植物，則會隨著昆蟲求偶的無聲樂音共鳴，連扇貝也擁有複雜的視覺系統。
若我們能看見蜜蜂眼中的花朵、聽見飛鳥鳴禽耳中的旋律，以及狗在街上嗅到的氣味，想像我們的世界會變得如何多元且豐富。以風趣口吻、嚴謹科學證明和探險的喜悅寫下，An Immense World將帶領我們踏上一段如普魯斯特所言：「真正的旅程——不是造訪陌生之地，而是得以用另一雙眼睛去看」的感知探索驚奇生態之旅。
A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY
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.”
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD
