Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition) by Merlin Sheldrake
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Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition) by Merlin Sheldrake
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Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition) by Merlin Sheldrake
There exists a lifeform so strange, so wondrous, so fundamentally different from anything we thought we understood that it forces us to completely rethink how life itself works. Neither plant nor animal, fungi are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded—living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. They can digest rock, enabling the first life on land. They survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. They solve problems without brains, manipulating animal behaviour with devastating precision. They have shaped human history through bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, whilst their psychedelic properties have influenced societies since antiquity and recently been shown to alleviate mental illness. Yet fungi live their lives largely out of sight, and over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented.
In this mind-altering journey, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi—organisms that sustain nearly all living systems on Earth. Discover how fungi digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil in breakthrough technologies. Learn how they connect plants in underground networks—the 'Wood Wide Web'—transforming our understanding of ecosystems. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and help us avoid environmental disaster. This million-copy bestseller is now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing these wondrous and wildly various lifeforms as never before. Winner of the Royal Society Book Prize 2021 and the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021, Entangled Life is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand our planet and the extraordinary intelligence that sustains it. "Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing." — Robert Macfarlane. "Urgent, astounding and necessary." — Helen Macdonald.
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Date Published: 02/11/2023
ISBN: 9781847927736
Number of pages: 240
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