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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
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Merlin Sheldrake
Astonishing… It seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down ― Observer
Riveting and surprising at every turn… A sensory as well as an intellectual pleasure ― New Statesman
A true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the living world, beautifully written, entertaining, funny, and inspiring, while representing science carefully and responsibly. I hope and trust that it will become an instant classic — GEORGE MONBIOT
A revelation… Sheldrake engages us in a miraculous web of connections, interactions and communication that changes the way we need to look at life, the planet and ourselves –– ISABELLA TREE, author of Wilding
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The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.
Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air, and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space, and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi.
These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behavior with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol, and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. Their ability to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in breakthrough technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web’, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented.
Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live and life itself.
About the Author
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer. He received a Ph.D. in Tropical Ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a musician and keen fermenter. Entangled Life is his first book.
www.merlinsheldrake.com
Find Merlin on Twitter @MerlinSheldrake
And on Instagram @merlin.sheldrake
Book Specifications
Title: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Author: Merlin Sheldrake
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
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Published Year: 2020
Publisher: Bodley Head
ISBN: 9781847925200
Dimensions: 15.3 x 15.3 x 23.4 cm
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