•Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2023•

•Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2023•

The Earth overflows with images and textures, sounds and vibrations, tastes and smells, electric and magnetic fields. However, each member of the animal kingdom that exists within it is locked into its own unique sensory universe, capturing only a tiny fragment of a truly vast expanse. This book welcomes us into an unexplored world, into unknown dimensions of the human mind, introducing us to our planet as perceived by animals.

On its pages, we encounter beetles attracted to gigantic fires, turtles that detect the Earth's magnetic fields, fish flooding rivers with unknown electric messages, and human beings emitting signals like bats. We discover that the scaly face of a crocodile is as sensitive as the fingertips of a gifted lover, that the strange eyes of giant squids have evolved to distinguish massive whales among the frothy waters, that plants sway to the silent melodies of insects courting them, as well as that well-hidden in their shelled armor, scallops have extraordinarily complex vision. We learn what bees see inside flowers, what songbirds hear from their melodies, and what exactly dogs can smell on the streets.

In the book *An Infinite World*, author and acclaimed journalist specializing in scientific topics Ed Yong takes us beyond the limits of our own senses, teaching us how to perceive the complexity of natural scents, electromagnetic waves, and the pulses of pressures that surround us. And he vividly shows us that to understand our world, we do not need to travel to other places – we simply need to see it with different eyes.