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Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition)

Merlin Sheldrake author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:2nd Nov '23

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Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition) cover

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before

'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer

'Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventure story' Sunday Times

*WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021*
*WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 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.

'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane
'Urgent, astounding and necessary' Helen Macdonald
'Gorgeous!' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)
'Wonderful' Nigella Lawson
'This book is like one surprise after another' David Byrne
'Uplifting' Jeanette Winterson

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*

* A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year *

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 * Mail on Sunday *
Riveting and surprising at every turn ... A sensory as well as an intellectual pleasure * New Statesman *
Wondrous ... Humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth's marvels * Time, Books of the Year *
Mind-boggling ... It's tempting ... to see fungi as the biological model for a better world * Telegraph *
Truly astounding ... An engrossing, captivating journey * Spectator *
Gorgeous, intelligent, utterly absorbing ... it expands our world, and makes us look up from the page with renewed wonder * Irish Times *
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 *

ISBN: 9781847927736

Dimensions: 254mm x 199mm x 25mm

Weight: 992g

240 pages