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Explore the amazing ways animals see, hear, and feel the world, with Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDid you know that there are turtles who can track the Earth's magnetic fields? That some fish use electricity to talk to each other? Or that giant squids evolved their enormous eyeballs to look out for whales?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world is so much BIGGER and more \"immense\" than we humans experience it. We can only see so many colors, we can only feel so many sensations, and there are some senses we can't access at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the amazing ways animals perceive the world is an excellent way to help understand the world itself. And this young readers adaptation of the mega-bestseller \u003ci\u003eAn Immense World\u003c\/i\u003e is perfect for curious kids and their families. 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Yong's spectacular new book is not just a mesmerizing examination of the wonders of life on Earth; it's no less than a biography of life itself' EMILY ST JOHN MANDELAll around us, just beyond our awareness, life proceeds in astonishing ways. The 100-ton blue whale easily crosses oceans, singing to fellow whales thousands of miles away. Alongside it a bacterium swims in a drop of seawater that is as vast for it as an ocean is to the whale. Hummingbirds move too quickly for us to follow, while plants move too languorously for us to perceive.   Every living thing operates at its own scale – the blend of size, range, pace, longevity, and influence that define the contours and rhythms of a life. We tend to think of the human scale as life’s default. But in Life Beyond Measure, Ed Yong coaxes us outside of our medium-sized, medium-lived, medium-paced, moderately mobile range and introduces us to entirely new worlds, some that could fit between two grains of sand. Fireflies assembling their luminous chorus; a bristlecone pine that's older than paper rounds the corner of its fifth millennium; shorebirds that fly across the world's biggest ocean without stopping; Pando, a forest that may be a single tree; and a host of other dazzling, disorienting entities expand our understanding of what life can be.   Mind-bending, exhilarating, and profound, Life Beyond Measure is a call to cast off our human perspective, to lose ourselves in the vastness and strangeness of nature, and by doing so, to discover how intimately connected to the rest of life we are.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510030311797,"sku":"9781847928207","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847928207.jpg?v=1787130287"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-ed-yong.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}