Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures Science, Nature & Math,Biological Sciences,Botany & Plant Sciences by Merlin Sheldrake with 368 pages.

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    Title : Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
    Brand : Merlin Sheldrake
    Category : Science, Nature & Math,Biological Sciences,Botany & Plant Sciences
    ISBN : 1847925197
    Page of number : 368 pages
    Publisher : Bodley Head (3 Sept. 2020)
    Language : English
    Dimensions : 16.2 x 16.2 x 24 cm
      Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
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Science, Nature & Math,Biological Sciences,Botany & Plant Sciences Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW STATESMAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*‘A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer’ Robert MacfarlaneThe more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi.These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. Their ability to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web’, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented. Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself.‘Reads like an adventure story … wondrous … beguilingly weaves together lived experience and scientific research’ Sunday Times‘An astonishing book that could alter our perceptions of fungi for ever. It seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down’ Observer‘Dazzling … reveals a world that’s both more extraordinary and more delicate than could be imagined’ Daily Mail

    I only read two and a half chapters so far, and found this book utterly fascinating.Did you know that fungi underground networks are sensitive to obstacles, heat, light, electricity, and many other stimuli? Did you know that they can find the shortest way amongst two points? That they have memory? Or that lichens break rocks into soil, and created the first soil on earth making possible for plants to colonise the planet? And these are just the first two and a half chapters…

This is a great read, and really helps give Fungi the importance they deserve – I don’t need to go into detail, that’s been done already by other reviewers, but what I must say, is after reading this book you are left with a new and exciting take on this huge but on the whole neglected Kingdom.Why not 5 stars? I do have a criticism. I found the format old fashioned – a few line drawings, with a small section of colour in the middle. If I hadn’t read the review in the New Scientist I don’t think I would have even bothered to pick it up and look through it. When it was published my Dad bought the New Naturalist, Ramsbottom’s Mushrooms and Toadstools – and as a nine year old I was absolutely hooked – first by the wonderful illustrations and then by the text. I think a lot of folk will miss out because this book looks boring, a poor layout and a lack of illustrations. I know it’s not comparable in any way but I’ve just bought my grandson – ‘Fungarium’ – and he thinks that’s great, and as a nine year old is beginning to read it.

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