A ‘BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR’
Financial Times and New ScientistA ‘BEST NEW SCIENCE BOOK’
The TelegraphA ‘MASTERPIECE OF NATURE AND SCIENCE WRITING’
The Washington Post
'You will never see in the same way again. With potentially endless reverberations for our creative and perceptive states, Higgins delivers a series of delicious lessons in what it is to be sensate.'
Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan
'How would the First Encounter with an extraterrestrial alien change our view of ourselves? Great science fiction explores the question. But we don’t need science fiction. The aliens are all around us. Jackie Higgins’s lyrical, literate style will charm you while her book stuns your imagination with strange, other-worldly truths.'
Richard Dawkins
'Higgins's most extraordinary achievement in an extraordinary book may be that in the course of her investigations she seems to have discovered a new sense: the sense of how to write compelling popular science.'
The Wall Street Journal
Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan
'How would the First Encounter with an extraterrestrial alien change our view of ourselves? Great science fiction explores the question. But we don’t need science fiction. The aliens are all around us. Jackie Higgins’s lyrical, literate style will charm you while her book stuns your imagination with strange, other-worldly truths.'
Richard Dawkins
'Higgins's most extraordinary achievement in an extraordinary book may be that in the course of her investigations she seems to have discovered a new sense: the sense of how to write compelling popular science.'
The Wall Street Journal
AN ‘EPIC ACCOUNT OF
HOW THE SENSES MAKE SENSE’
The Times
‘A MIRACLE ON EVERY PAGE’
Scott Weidensaul, author of A World on the Wing‘FILLED WITH THE WONDER OF KNOWING
& THE INFINITE SURPRISES OF NATURE’
Stephen Rutt, author of Wintering
'Sentient is a revelatory book that opens us to whole new realms of experience. Thank you Jackie Higgins for enlarging our understanding of what the world looks, feels, tastes and smells like.'
Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus
'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
'This, more than any other book, has made me think differently about the world this year.’
Alec Russell, Editor FT Weekend
'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.’
The Observer
Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus
'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
'This, more than any other book, has made me think differently about the world this year.’
Alec Russell, Editor FT Weekend
'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.’
The Observer
