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Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition)

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Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition) by Merlin Sheldrake explores the fascinating and complex world of fungi, revealing their crucial roles in natural ecosystems. The book delves into how fungi shape our environment, influence our minds, and offer innovative solutions to various scientific challenges, all while providing stunning illustrations to enhance the reader's understanding.
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by the hidden world of fungi and their complex influence on our ecosystem. This edition combines science with stunning illustrations, offering a visually engaging and thought-provoking exploration of these remarkable organisms.

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The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now reinvented as a spectacular visual journey through the wondrous and alien world of fungi.

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before.

'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' - Robert Macfarlane

Winner of the Royal Society Science 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.

'Gorgeous!' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)

'Reads like an adventure story... Wondrous' - Sunday Times

'Urgent, astounding, and necessary' - Helen Macdonald

'A magical writer' - Russell Brand

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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Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition) is widely praised as a beautifully written and illustrated work that reveals the fascinating world of fungi. Critics have described it as dazzling, riveting, and mind-boggling, offering a sensory and intellectual pleasure. It's been noted for its ability to completely change the reader's perspective on the natural world and fungi's role within it. The book is deemed a masterpiece of science writing, with observations so interesting and phrasing so lovely that readers are compelled to slow down and absorb its content, inspiring a newfound wonder for the natural world.

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ISBN: 9781847927736

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 November 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 197.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 990g

Pages: 240

About the Author

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 musician and keen fermenter. Entangled Life is his first book. www.merlinsheldrake.com Find Merlin on Twitter @MerlinSheldrake And on Instagram @merlin.sheldrake

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