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Entangled Life

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

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Entangled Life

By: Merlin Sheldrake
Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The million-copy bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.

*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.

'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer
'Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventure story' Sunday Times
'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

 Animals Biological Sciences Botany & Plants Outdoors & Nature Science Thought-Provoking

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Critic reviews

After this book, nothing will seem the same again . . . beautifully written and illustrated . . . dazzling . . . reveals a world that's both more extraordinary and more delicate than could be imagined
Riveting and surprising at every turn . . . A sensory as well as an intellectual pleasure
Wondrous . . . Humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth's marvels
Mind-boggling . . . It's tempting . . . to see fungi as the biological model for a better world
Truly astounding . . . An engrossing, captivating journey
Gorgeous, intelligent, utterly absorbing . . . it expands our world, and makes us look up from the page with renewed wonder
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 Hawk)
A true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the living world . . . I hope and trust that it will become an instant classic (GEORGE MONBIOT)
Blew my mind . . . Essential reading. Go and get swept up in a new world (ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature)
Astonishing . . . it's impossible to finish this book without feeling awestruck (ANDREW MOTION, TLS Books of the Year)
All stars
Most relevant
Nature has all the answers. We have to steer our children to study sciences and save our planet. Merlin’s book should be on the science curriculum in all schools

Fascinating!

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wonderful pace. I do like the delicate and particular voice of Merlin. the ripples of interest and meaning in just a single sentence of this book could keep a person occupied for a lifetime . fascinating, this book delivers a fresh approach to information by bluring our categories for life and the processes life is involved in. Merlin very much draws the human animal in to this story as much as termites, mycelium and apples.
.a book to listen to several times

deeply this book burrows

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Absolutely fascinating.!
All the experts in the world need to know more about this and try to incorporate this field of knowledge into their work. Then somehow the world will become a better place.

This is the future

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book, thank you Merlin. Being a soil scientist & plant nutritionist come gardener it was a joy to listen to a language & understanding I harmonise with instinctively so well.

Fabulous

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The incredible world of fungus, moulds and the way the interact and bridge every living thing. Fungus really is the enabler to much of life’s wonders. This well written book is an open door to a selection of niche subjects that would otherwise be the preserve of mycologists.

Fascinating, wonderful and at times bizarre

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