Entangled Life Illustrated
Author(s): Merlin Sheldrake
Science & Environment | Children's Week - Secondary
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures is now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before.
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 *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 - Mail on Sunday
Riveting and surprising at every turn ... A sensory as well as an intellectual pleasure - New Statesman
Wondrous ... Humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth's marvels - Time, Books of the Year
Mind-boggling ... It's tempting ... to see fungi as the biological model for a better world - Telegraph
Truly astounding ... An engrossing, captivating journey - Spectator
Gorgeous, intelligent, utterly absorbing ... it expands our world, and makes us look up from the page with renewed wonder - Irish Times
One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you ... revelatory ... astounding ... and brimming with infectious joy * HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk
A true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the living world ... I hope and trust that it will become an instant classic - GEORGE MONBIOT
Blew my mind ... Essential reading. Go and get swept up in a new world - ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature
Astonishing ... it's impossible to finish this book without feeling awestruck - ANDREW MOTION, TLS Books of the Year
Delightful to read but also grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world - ED YONG, author of An Immense World
'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 WRTITING 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*
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
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 1000.0
- : 30 July 2023
- : h248mm x w196mm x s28mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Merlin Sheldrake
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 579.5
- : 240
- : PSQ
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