Merlin Sheldrake\'s New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi.
In vivid, surprising images, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms--and our relationships with them--are changing our understanding of how life works..
They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster.
They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life\'s processes.
Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question.
This new edition, abridged from the original, features over 100 full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness and beauty of Fungi to life as never before.
In the first edition of the mind-bending, gorgeous (Margaret Atwood), brilliant [and] entrancing ( The Guardian ) Entangled Life, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life.
Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.
Most Fungi live out of sight yet Make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems.
But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree.
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms.
Merlin Sheldrake\'s New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi