Entangled Life

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

De: Merlin Sheldrake

Narrado por: Merlin Sheldrake

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.

“Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

ONE OF PEOPLE’S BEST BOOKS OF THE 2020S • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday

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 this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original, features more than one hundred 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. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.

Winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award • Shortlisted for the British Book Award • Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize

Earth-Shattering Insight

This was by far the most intellectually exciting work that I have had the pleasure of stumbling across. It completely rerouted the way that I imagine the world around me, including myself, and inspired a scientific zeal in me to go back to school and continue to pursue biology. Sheldrake managed to weave a term- and concept-heavy subject into a wonderland of possibility. I truly did not want it to end, and I’m sure I’ll be thinking about this book for years to come. I would highly recommend this to anyone remotely interested in science of any field, as Sheldrake has drawn mycelial lines between all aspects of life on earth with this perspective-shifting masterpiece.

fascinating

Simply changed the way I think about the world. Hard to imagine how interesting this book is for someone who has no background in science of any kind!

Merlin Sheldrake should be a professional narrator

This is a life changing book, whether you start out interested in fungi or not. I loved every minute of it and Sheldrake's voice was so smooth and calming!

Caution : mind blowing and life changing.

Reading this will change you, in a very good way. You will become more human by becoming LESS human-centric. Welcome to a new world. Thank you Mr. Sheldrake for helping me evole.

Wow... ******

When you (I am only a lawyer) start reading a book about mushrooms, you don't know what to expect. Either Merlin is an intoxicating good writer, either this book is a game changer and equally Merlin is an amazing writer.