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The Secret Life of Fungi

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The Secret Life of Fungi

By: Aliya Whitely
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
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Fungi are unlike any other living thing - they’re almost magically unique. Welcome to this astonishing world....

Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there’s still much to learn about the eruption, growth, and decay of their secret interconnected world.

Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with fungi - from her childhood taking blurry photographs of strange fungal eruptions on Exmoor to a career as a writer inspired by their surreal and alien beauty. This love for fungi is a love for life, from single-cell spores to the largest living organism on the planet; a story stretching from Aliya’s lawn into orbit and back again via every continent.

From fields, feasts, and fairy rings to death caps, puffballs, and ambrosia beetles, this is an intoxicating journey into the life of an extraordinary organism, one that we have barely begun to understand.

©2021 Aliya Whitely (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Ecosystems & Habitats Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science

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Just brilliant, entertaning and educational. Concise coverage of a diverse topic.
Mushrooms & all fungi are amazing!

Very interesting! So many mushrrooms

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Nothings
Natural is a great innovator. How it succeeds or survives and replicates itself.
Easy to listen to.

Surprise

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It’s one thing to mispronounce scientific terms (zoospore - particularly annoying since the author draws attention to the sound), but to be inconsistent, swapping between the correct pronunciation and another (mycelium) within a single chapter is just baffling. And almost impossible to listen comfortably to.

A humdrum book ruined by appalling narration

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If you’re new to the fungi world, this is a good little book to start with the basics and give you a general understanding of the large scale world of fungi.

A cute little book about fungi

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Not a interesting scientific look at fungi, more a personal account of someone who works with them. Didn’t learn much .

Not much

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