Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Merlin Sheldrake's New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi. In the first edition of the mind-bending, "gorgeous" (Margaret Atwood), "brilliant and] entrancing" (The Guardian) Entangled Life, Sheldrake asked the reader to think like a fungus and introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. In this exquisitely designed volume, with dozens of Steve Axford's color photographs, Merlin tells us the story of fungi in a whole new way.
In Entangled Life, The Illustrated Edition, there are pages of flamboyant mushrooms in their element; unfortunate insects captured and manipulated by the Ophiocordyceps fungi; and ethereally beautiful images of microscopic mycelium that send out the networks of tubes that enmesh the soil and the things growing within it in the "wood wide web."
Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life's processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. In vivid, surprising images, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms--and our relationships with them--are changing our understanding of how life works.
Synopsis
Merlin Sheldrake's New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi. When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.
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. 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.
Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life's processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. In vivid, surprising images, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms--and our relationships with them--are changing our understanding of how life works.