Sentient
24 June 2021Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In Sentient, Jackie Higgins 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.
'Spellbinding . . . More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me think differently about the world this year.' – Financial Times Best Books of the Year
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Details
24 June 2021324 pages
9781529030792Imprint: 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 yearSimon 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.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
