Description
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake – A Mind-Altering Adventure Through the World of Fungi
For readers of Robert Macfarlane and Other Minds, this smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.
“Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing”
- Robert Macfarlane
Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021
The more we learn about fungi, the more we realize how indispensable they are. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help prevent environmental disasters. Fungi 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, revealing how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.
“Gorgeous!”
- Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)
“Reads like an adventure story… Wondrous”
- Sunday Times
“Urgent, astounding, and necessary”
- Helen Macdonald
“A magical writer”
- Russell Brand
Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus, and Time
About the Author
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and writer. He holds a PhD in Tropical Ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in Panama’s tropical forests, where he was a predoctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is also a musician and keen fermenter. Entangled Life is his first book.
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