# A Feast in Every Sense

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- Authors: [Diane Ackerman](https://www.bookquiver.com/diane-ackerman)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-18-0546-109-8
- Published: 2027-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Aristotle said we have five senses. Neuroscientists now think the real number may be closer to thirty – from chronoception, our mysterious internal clock, to interoception, the conversation our organs are constantly having with our brains. Three decades on from her cult bestseller A Natural History of the Senses , Diane Ackerman returns to find that science has been quietly dismantling everything we thought we knew about perception. In A Feast in Every Sense , Ackerman takes us swimming with manatees who see with their skin, inside research labs where scientists are regrowing the microscopic hairs that give us hearing, and into a bedroom where a Scottish nurse smelt her husband’s Parkinson’s disease a decade before his diagnosis. She explores the sensory signatures of outer space, the hidden scent receptors in our hearts and sperm cells, and a blind man who navigates city streets by echolocation. At a time when screens are steadily starving our natural senses, this is a book that will make you feel startlingly, exuberantly alive.