Entangled Life

BOOK SUMMARY

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.

In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original, features more than one hundred full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness, and beauty of fungi to life as never before.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Sheldrake is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation. A keen brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms.

PRAISE

"[An] ebullient and ambitious exploration . . . Reading [Entangled Life] left me not just moved but altered, eager to disseminate its message of what fungi can do." —The New York Times

"A gorgeous book of literary nature writing, ripe with insight and erudition. . . . Food for the soul." —The Wall Street Journal

"An encapsulating look at the importance of fungi to our ecosystem and world—as key players in biological processes, as crucial healing instruments and more. You'll never look at mushrooms the same way again." —People

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Trade paperback
368 pages
Non-fiction
8 in H | 5.1 in W | 0.8 in T | 0.6 lb