Life Beyond Measure: Nature’s Hidden Wonders at Every Scale

In his prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller, An Immense World, Ed Yong invited us to perceive the world through other animals’ senses.Now he transforms our view of the world once again by revealing the hidden wonders of life at different scales. 'Utterly extraordinary. 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