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

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

Yong tells a short story about an animal, provides a lot of information about how that happened, and tells readers step by step how scientists learned it, as well as what we still don't know. This structure is consistent throughout most of the chapters. All the terms are defined, and he balances the technical aspects with making it accessible to people like me who haven't opened a biology textbook since they were a teenager. There is some cursing, the footnotes are delightful, the transitions between chapters are smooth and the enthusiasm for animals and the natural world doesn't dim. 
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