Fungi, often overlooked, play a crucial role in sustaining life on Earth, functioning as metabolic masters and key players in ecological systems. This new edition of Sheldrake's work delves into the diverse kingdom of fungi, showcasing their beauty and complexity through over 100 full-color images. It challenges traditional notions of individuality and intelligence, illustrating how fungi can influence our minds, heal, and even address environmental issues. The book offers a fresh perspective on our interconnectedness with these remarkable organisms.
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before 'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer 'Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventure story' Sunday Times *WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021* *WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRTITING 2021* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021* The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world, and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself. 'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane 'Urgent, astounding and necessary' Helen Macdonald 'Gorgeous!' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Wonderful' Nigella Lawson 'A magical writer' Russell Brand 'This book is like one surprise after another' David Byrne 'Uplifting' Jeanette Winterson * A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year *
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding
of our planet and life itself. 'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert
MacfarlaneThe more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.
"The more we learn about fungi, the less it makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world, and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself."--From back cover
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.'One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you.
