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  • Published: 3 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473580824
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Narrator: Merlin Sheldrake
  • RRP: $24.99
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Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures





A mind-altering adventure through the world of fungi for readers of Robert Macfarlane and Other Minds

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The 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' 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*

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
'A magical writer' Russell Brand
'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 *

©Merlin Sheldrake 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

  • Published: 3 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473580824
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Narrator: Merlin Sheldrake
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Merlin Sheldrake

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

Praise for Entangled Life

Far more than a book about mushrooms...[Entangled Life] explores the intelligent work of the organisms and the important role fungi play in shaping history... If you're looking for a captivating, educational and unique listen, this is certainly one to consider

Gardens Illustrated

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