The Secret Life of Fungi

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Discoveries From a Hidden World

By Aliya Whiteley and Aliyah Whiteley

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The Secret Life of Fungi by Aliya Whiteley delves into the fascinating world of fungi, exploring their intriguing roles in various ecosystems. From their interactions with plants and animals to their contributions to human culture and medicine, the book unveils the hidden life of these remarkable organisms. This exploration of fungi reveals their complex behaviours and surprising influences on the world around us.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might like this book if you are fascinated by the often-overlooked world of fungi and want to explore their critical roles in ecosystems, medicine, and beyond. The author's engaging writing style reveals surprising connections between fungi and human life, offering a blend of science and storytelling that will appeal to nature enthusiasts and curious minds alike.

The Secret Life of Fungi

From fields, feasts and fairy rings to death caps, puffballs and ambrosia beetles, this is an intoxicating journey into the life of extraordinary organism, one that we have barely begun to understand.

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Fungi are not like us – they are entirely, magically something else… Erupting, spreading, decaying, changing.

Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with fungi – from a childhood taking blurry photographs of strange fungal eruptions on Exmoor to a career as a writer inspired by their surreal and alien beauty. This love for fungi is a love for life, from single-cell spores to the largest living organism on the planet; a story stretching from Aliya's lawn into space and back again via every continent.

Despite their familiar presence, there's still much for us to learn about the eruption, growth and decay of fungi’s connected world – one that Aliya lays out before us, linking fungal geography and history with myth; fiction and culture with science.

From fields, feasts and fairy rings to death caps, puffballs and ambrosia beetles, this is an intoxicating personal journey into the life of extraordinary organism, one that we have barely begun to understand.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783966042

Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 September 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Elliott & Thompson Limited

Edition: New edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 208

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Aliya Whiteley Aliyah Whiteley Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Aliya Whiteley grew up in North Devon and developed an early passion for walking and observing nature. Today she writes about the natural world for Mental Floss and in her fiction, which has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award, among others. Whiteley’s novella, The Beauty, depicted a future world in which a fungus interacts with humanity and creates a new form of life, leading readers all over the world to send her photographs and articles relating to mushrooms. Her new novel, Greensmith (May 2020), deals with seed banks and viruses, and the current global threat to diversity. She was formerly the Deputy Editor of Explore – a magazine that tackles one subject in depth per issue, such as dinosaurs, the solar system or indeed plant-life. She walks through the woods and fields around her home in West Sussex every day, taking inspiration from the hidden worlds around her.