アンドリュー・カーネギー成人向けフィクションおよびノンフィクション優秀賞
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong (Edmund Soon-Weng Yong)
動物ごとの感覚世界の違いを軸に、見えない電場や匂い、音、触覚の広がりをたどる科学読み物。人間中心の感覚の前提を揺さぶり、別の生きものが世界をどう受け取っているかを想像させる。
作品情報
私たちが見落としている感覚の層へ、動物たちの眼差しを借りて入っていく。
レビュー要約
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緻密な取材とわかりやすい語り口で、動物の知覚を壮大な発見の連続として読ませる点が高く支持されている。情報量の多さを感じる読者もいるが、驚きと発見の密度が最後まで保たれるという声が多い。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Random House
- 発売日
- 2022-06-21
- ページ数
- 464ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 16.03 x 3.73 x 24.03 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780593133231
- ISBN-10
- 0593133234
- 価格
- 5811 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Professional & Technical/Professional Science/Biological Sciences
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 ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, People, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Chicago Public Library, Outside, Publishers Weekly, BookPage ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Economist, Smithsonian Magazine , Prospect (UK), Globe & Mail, Esquire, Mental Floss, Marginalian, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • 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
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. He has also been named a Guggenheim Fellow for science writing. 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.
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a must read book in this era
The great scientist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett said I wish she had written this book. It’s one of my fav among Lisa Feldman, Allen Langer, Yuvar Noah Harari… I’m a vegan because I love animals and this book has strengthened my love towards animals and had given me lot more of understanding of human beings. It helped my work as a psychotherapist as well.
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購入して良かった！
最高の内容でした！
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Different than I expected and SOOOOO good!
This book will change the way you see the natural world around you!
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イギリスと日本の違い？
視覚、聴覚、触覚、味覚、嗅覚が人間の５大感覚、そしてそれらを使える環境（Umwelt)内で我々は生活してます。哺乳類、鳥類も大体同様ですが、爬虫類、両生類などに味覚が存在するかは不明です。魚類、昆虫、クモ類、軟体動物などは味覚どころか視覚、聴覚などを持ってない種が大半です。つまり生物は種ごとに感覚が大きく異なり、それらに対応し、生活の環境（Umwelt)も大きく異なってきました。感覚器官進化イコール生物進化と言っても過言では有りません。人間の数百倍の嗅覚を持つ犬の鼻は、鼻孔の横に小さなスリットが有り、鼻孔から息を吐くとスリットから外気が入り込み臭いを嗅ぎ続ける事が可能です。又、フクロウは、ウサギや犬の縦長で地上平面に適した外耳では無く、大きく丸い顔がパラボラアンテナ（外耳）になり、顔で集音した音を目の横にある中耳に集め、3次元的に獲物の位置を把握します。イルカは嘴から音を発生させ、水中では音は空気中より早く、遠く届く性質を利用し何キロ先の仲間と交信します。頭の上の袋状器官で交信音を聞くのです。南氷洋と北極を回遊するシロナガスクジラは地磁気を感覚として捉え、移動すると推察されてますが、クジラ本体に磁気感覚器官は見つかってません。本書は、電場の乱れから獲物を捕らえたり、足裏で嗅覚する蚊、開口部の縁に目が点在するホタテ貝類など、生物の感覚器官は生きるため、環境に応じ、膨大な多様性の存在を説明してます。多くは21世紀に発見されてます。創造主ですら知らない、気が付かない生物の多様性を解説した著者の才能、好奇心、環境への関心が伝わってくる一冊です。著者、ED YONG氏、マレーシア生まれの中国系イギリス人、は１０代前半でイギリスに移住。COVID-19レポートでピュリッツァー賞。同じ東洋系でイギリスに移住したノーベル文学賞のカズオ・イシグロ氏を彷彿させます。イギリスも日本も落ち目なのですが、イギリスにはまだまだ人材を惹きつけ開花させる環境（Umwelt)が有り、日本には存在しない事実。三流文化国と成りつつある日本は、悲しくやり切れない現実です。
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Tiere mit anderen Augen (Ohren, Zungen...) sehen
Früher dachte man, dass Tiere die Welt so in etwa wahrnehmen wie wir auch. Nichts könnte falscher sein. Hunde sehen farbig, aber sehr viel weniger verscwommener, Einige Fische schmecken mit der Haut, einige Vögel singen in Frequenzen, die man nicht hören kann und Tiere haben z.T. Sinne, die wir nicht haben, wie das Spüren elektrischer Felder oder dem Erdmagnetfeld. Das Thema des Buches ist absolut faszinierend - nicht nur überholt es die meisten "Hier sind besonere Tierefakten"- Bücher durch Präzision und Köhärenz, es überrascht auch bei Tieren die man vermeidlich kennt und ist dabei absolut auf der Höhe der Forschung - vieles weiß man erst seit wenigen jahren. Dabei stellt der Autor auch die Experimente vor, die zu den Erkenntnissen führen (nicht so leicht herauszufinden,w as ein Tier "fühlt") und natürlich auch die Wissenschaftler dahinter. Dabei ist das Buch gut geschrieben und bisweilen durchaus komisch - aber so pickepackevoll mit Wissen, dass man nach der Lektüre praktisch dofort erneut anfangen kann zu lesen. Das man das auch will, zeigt wie gut das Buch ist - für mich ein absolutes Highlight des Jahres.
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Impressive !!
Astonish book !! Introduced an immense world I never knew about its existence and how it does operate. Ed Young made a masterpiece by importing sciences work and researchers into the public with simplified explanations
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My FAVOURITE book
It is an amazing book if you are interested in the worlds of animals around the world. It goes deep into worlds of vision, smell, touch and so so so much more! I really enjoyed this book and loved every second. It has some hard bits for me to understand, but that's because of the science behind it. Something a google search can't help. 10/10!
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Immersive
One of the best, most immersive and well researched books I have ever read. Engaging read
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Everyone needs a copy of this book. It is life changing.
If I could leave more stars I would. As an avid reader since I learned to read as a toddler, this is the best book I have ever read. It is life changing. It is scrupulously and robustly evidence based, but written in a very accessible way, and it is absolutely fascinating. Did you know that butterflies use magnetic receptors to navigate across continents? Me neither! I have bought 5 for Christmas gifts.