Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future

Description: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing Robert MacfarlaneWinner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A mind-altering adventure through the world of fungi for readers of Robert Macfarlane and Other MindsThe smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down ObserverCompletely 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*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 natures 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 MacfarlaneUrgent, astounding and necessary Helen MacdonaldGorgeous! Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)Wonderful Nigella LawsonThis book is like one surprise after another David ByrneUplifting 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 * Author Biography 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 4s 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. Review After this book, nothing will seem the same again . . . beautifully written and illustrated . . . dazzling . . . reveals a world thats 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 earths marvels * Time, Books of the Year *Mind-boggling . . . Its 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 HawkA true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the living world . . . I hope and trust that it will become an instant classic -- GEORGE MONBIOTBlew my mind . . . Essential reading. Go and get swept up in a new world -- ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of NatureAstonishing . . . its impossible to finish this book without feeling awestruck -- ANDREW MOTION, TLS Books of the YearDelightful to read but also grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world -- ED YONG, author of An Immense WorldSentence after sentence stopped me short. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world - the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom - and the earth-shaking, hierarchy-breaking implications of Sheldrakes argument. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer -- ROBERT MACFARLANE, author of UnderlandA revelation . . . Changes the way we need to look at life, the planet and ourselves -- ISABELLA TREE, author of WildingWonderfully written . . . surprising . . . The best science writing invites people to view the world around them in a new way, and Entangled Life is a perfect example -- BRIAN COXThis is a book that, by virtue of the power of its writing, shifts your sense of the human . . . It will inspire a generation -- MICHAEL POLLAN (Bay Area Book Festival, 2020)I have been working on and reading and writing about fungi for a decade. And yet, nearly every page of this book contained either an observation so interesting or a turn of phrase so lovely that I was moved to slow down, stop, and reread . . . This book rocked me into remembering that nature, especially fungal nature, is big and encompassing and creative and destructive. It reminded me that fungi are, like the Universe, sublime -- Rob Dunn * Science *A magical journey deep into the roots of Nature by an expert storyteller . . . a must-read for citizen scientists hoping to make a positive difference on this sacred planet we share -- PAUL STAMETS, author of Mycelium RunningReading this book, I felt surrounded by a web of wonder. The natural world is more fantastic than any fantasy, so long as you have the means to perceive it. This book provides the means -- JARON LANIER, author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right NowYou may never look at fungi in the same way . . . an eye-opening exploration of this mysterious taxonomic kingdom . . . a journey into an untapped world. It is both a wonderful collection of fungal feats . . and a personal account of Sheldrakes experiences with these miraculous organisms * New Scientist *Brilliant . . . entrancing . . . when we look closely [at fungi], we meet large, unsettling questions . . . Merlin Sheldrake . . . carries us easily into these questions with ebullience and precision . . . challenging some of our deepest assumptions * Guardian *A joy . . . a captivating trip into the weird and wonderful mycorrhizal world around us - and inside us . . . full of startling revelations * Daily Mail *The oddest and most uplifting book . . . It is, to say the least, rare to find such a vast area of life on Earth - fungi - about which one knows almost nothing, and which gives promise of being so important to human life during our next century -- ANDREW MARR * New Statesman Books of the Year *If you had told me a book about fungi would be both enthralling and completely mind-blowing, I wouldnt have believed you. And yet. Dazzlingly good -- INDIA KNIGHT, Sunday TimesA triumph and a thing of vast beauty -- TOM HODGKINSON, The IdlerFungi are everywhere, and Merlin Sheldrake is an ideal guide to their mysteries. Hes passionate, deeply knowledgeable and a wonderful writer -- ELIZABETH KOLBERT, author of Under A White SkyDeeply engaging and constantly surprising . . . the magic of mushrooms is not merely mind-expanding . . . it might expand the very concept of mind -- PHILIP BALL * Prospect *As hard to put down as a thrilling detective novel, and one of the best works of popular science writing that I have enjoyed in years -- DENNIS MCKENNA, author (with Terence McKenna) of Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Growers GuideIt is impossible to put this book down. Entangled Life provides a window into the mind-boggling biology and fascinating cultures surrounding fungal life, as well as fungis innumerable uses in materials, medicine and ecology. Sheldrake asks us to consider a life-form that is radically alien to ours, yet vibrant and lively underfoot -- HANS ULRICH OBRISTThis is not just for mushroom-heads - it is science at its most uplifting -- JEANETTE WINTERSON * The Times *Playful, strange, intensely philosophical ... Until very recently, human knowledge of this most mysterious lifeform, neither plant nor animal, has been extremely limited. This is astounding, given ... their seismic impact on life on earth ... [Sheldrakes] central vision of the interconnectedness of all life-forms feels shiveringly prescient * Telegraph * Review Text Astonishing... It seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down Review Quote A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. Sentence after sentence stopped me short. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world - the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom - and the earth-shaking, hierarchy-breaking implications of Sheldrakes argument. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer Promotional "Headline" A mind-altering adventure through the world of fungi for readers of Robert Macfarlane and Other Minds Details ISBN1784708275 Author Merlin Sheldrake Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2021 ISBN-10 1784708275 ISBN-13 9781784708276 Short Title Entangled Life Language English DEWEY 579.5 Publication Date 2021-09-02 UK Release Date 2021-09-02 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-09-02 NZ Release Date 2021-09-02 Pages 368 Imprint Vintage Subtitle How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures Alternative 9781473554689 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133339849;

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