Sentient
08 July 2021Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Jackie Higgins’s lyrical, literate style will charm you while her book stuns your imagination with strange, other-worldly truths' Richard Dawkins
Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe – to understand what it means to be human. Through their eyes, ears, skins, tongues and noses, the furred, finned and feathered...
Details
08 July 2021643 minutes
Joan Walker
9781529030808Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The first rule of popular science is to reveal the wonder and mystery of the world. For that reason, Sentient, written by photographer and wildlife film-maker Jackie Higgins, is my personal pick of the year.Simon Ings, New Scientist Best Books of the Year
Spellbinding . . . More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me think differently about the world this year.Alec Russell, Financial Times Best Books of the Year
Higgins makes popular science accessible – Sentient is a dizzying display of the evolutionary ingenuity not only of lifeforms, but also of zoologists, neuroscientists and biologists who have mapped new frontiers of knowledge. You may finish reading it and wish that humans could use that intelligence to stop the destruction of the habitats all of us live in.Saskia Baron, Observer
Jackie Higgins’s eye-opening account of the often bizarre or superhuman sensory systems of other animals, from Hades-dwellers to Arctic owls.Steven Poole, Telegraph Best New Science Books
