Entangled Life (how Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds And Shape Our Futures)

By (author) Sheldrake, Merlin
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The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that 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 less makes sense without them.

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The million-copy bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.

''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 WRITING 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
''This book is like one surprise after another'' David Byrne
''Uplifting'' Jeanette Winterson

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*

* A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year *

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After this book, nothing will seem the same again . . . beautifully written and illustrated . . . dazzling . . . reveals a world that''s both more extraordinary and more delicate than could be imagined
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Riveting and surprising at every turn . . . A sensory as well as an intellectual pleasure
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Wondrous . . . Humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth''s marvels
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Mind-boggling . . . It''s tempting . . . to see fungi as the biological model for a better world
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Truly astounding . . . An engrossing, captivating journey
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Gorgeous, intelligent, utterly absorbing . . . it expands our world, and makes us look up from the page with renewed wonder
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One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you . . . revelatory . . . astounding . . . and brimming with infectious joy
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A true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the living world . . . I hope and trust that it will become an instant classic
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Blew my mind . . . Essential reading. Go and get swept up in a new world
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Astonishing . . . it''s impossible to finish this book without feeling awestruck
Biographical note:
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 research associate of the Vrije University, Amsterdam, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks. Entangle