I call it marvellous: everything about the microbial world is to be marvelled at. marvellous, thrilling and richly annotated book. I Contain Multitudes is science journalism at its best - Bill Gates

He just keeps imparting one surprising, fascinating insight after the next. Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9781784700171 Number of pages: 368 Weight: 267 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm MEDIA REVIEWS ‘The sure-footedness of the writing is a joy, but also instils confidence, as does Yong’s renunciation of the breathless wonder that sometimes infects popular science writing.’ – The Guardian For the last quarter-century or so, microbiologists have been exploring what may amount to a new view of life, full of fascination and self-contradiction.’ – The New York Times ‘ I Contain Multitudes has a terrific story to tell. In a million tiny ways, I Contain Multitudes will radically change how you think about the natural world, and how you see yourself. In I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light, less as individuals and more as thriving ecosystems. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth. They sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. Even when we are alone, we are never alone.

When Orson Welles said ‘we’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone’, he was mistaken. Selected as a New York Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for The Royal Society Science Book Prize 2017 Shortlisted for The Wellcome Book Prize 2017

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