Entangled Life

Name: Entangled Life
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9781784708276
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How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

By Merlin Sheldrake

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( 41,197 ratings, 5,577 reviews)

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Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake explores the fascinating world of fungi, revealing their crucial role in our ecosystems, medicine, and everyday life. The book delves into the complex relationships fungi have with plants, animals, and humans, offering intriguing insights into their impact on the natural world and our future.
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by the hidden world of fungi and their profound impact on our ecosystem, biology, and even our minds. It's perfect for those who love discovering the interconnectedness of life and the profound mysteries of the natural world.

Entangled Life

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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Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake is a captivating exploration of the mysterious and marvellous world of fungi. Through engaging storytelling and rigorous scientific research, Sheldrake guides readers on a journey that unravels the secret life of fungi and their profound impact on our understanding of the natural world. This book reveals how fungi, often overlooked and misunderstood, are crucial to all life on Earth. From their roles in ecosystem balance and nutrient cycles to their emerging significance in medicine and technology, fungi are Earth's metabolic masters and eco-engineers.

As Sheldrake delves deeper, he presents extraordinary insights into the ways in which fungi communicate with plants and animals, form intricate networks, and influence the climate. The book artfully bridges the gap between scientific literature and narrative non-fiction, making complex concepts accessible and evocative. Readers will find themselves immersed in the magnificent and hidden world of fungi, discovering their astonishing capabilities to break down pollutants, nourish the soil, and even affect human consciousness.

Here's what the critics say about Entangled Life:

"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

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

The more we learn about fungi, the less the world makes sense without them. They can alter human cognition, heal our bodies, and offer solutions to ecological crises. In Entangled Life, Sheldrake illuminates the unseen threads that weave life together, showing how fungi are fundamental players in the vast web of life. This book is a call to re-imagine our relationship with the natural world and appreciate the incredible organisms that help support and sustain it.

Acclaim for Entangled Life:

"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

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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Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake is a truly transformative read, praised for its beautiful writing and illustrations. Reviewers find it dazzling, riveting, wondrous, and mind-boggling, enlightening readers about the extraordinary and delicate world of fungi. The book is described as a masterpiece, reshaping perspectives on nature with an infectious joy and wonder, and opens the eyes of readers to the interconnectedness and marvels of fungal life.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784708276

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 368

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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 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. Entangled Life is an international bestseller, winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 and the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a host of other prizes, including the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2021 for Narrative Non-Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021. Entangled Life was also featured as Radio 4's Book of the Week and selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Time, among others. It has been translated into twenty languages.