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Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition: How Fungi Make Our Worlds Contributor(s): Sheldrake, Merlin (Author)
Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition: How Fungi Make Our Worlds Contributor(s): Sheldrake, Merlin (Author)
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Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition: How Fungi Make Our Worlds Contributor(s): Sheldrake, Merlin (Author)
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Publisher: Random House
US SRP: $40.00 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: November 07, 2023
Physical Info: 1.0" H x 9.8" L x 7.8" W (2.15 lbs) 240 pages
"When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In the first edition of the mind-bending, "gorgeous" (Margaret Atwood), "brilliant [and] entrancing" (The Guardian) Entangled Life,
Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This new edition, abridged from the original, features over 100 full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness and beauty of fungi to life as never before. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life's processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disasters. In vivid, surprising images, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms--and our relationships with them--are changing our understanding of how life works."--Dust jacket.
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Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation. A keen brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms.
"[An] ebullient and ambitious exploration . . . Reading [ Entangled Life] left me not just moved but altered, eager to disseminate its message of what fungi can do." --The New York Times
"A gorgeous book of literary nature writing, ripe with insight and erudition. . . . Food for the soul."--The Wall Street Journal
"Nearly every page of this book contained either an observation so interesting or a turn of phrase so lovely that I was moved to slow down, stop, and re-read. . . . [Entangled Life] reminded me that fungi are, like the Universe, sublime."--Science
