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The Smell of Fresh Rain - The Unexpected Pleasures of Our Most Elusive Sense by Barney Shaw
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Exploring the hidden complexities of our most under-used and misunderstood sense. Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph - so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a willingness to s ...Show more
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our most Elusive Sense by Barney Shaw
$32.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
What do we actually mean when we say that something smells of fresh paint? Or frying bacon? And what does five o clock in the morning smell like? Inspired by an unsettlingly synaesthesic question put to him by his son, Barney Shaw looks into the science of smell: peering behind its sensory nature to dis ...Show more
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