Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author
of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our
Minds & Shape Our Futures, a New York
Times and Sunday Times bestseller and
winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize.
Sheldrake is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam
and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground
Networks and the Fungi Foundation. A keen brewer and fermenter, he
is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and
more-than-human organisms.
“[An] ebullient and ambitious exploration . . .
Reading [Entangled Life] left me not just moved but altered, eager
to disseminate its message of what fungi can do.”—The New York
Times
“A gorgeous book of literary nature writing, ripe with insight and
erudition. . . . Food for the soul.”—The Wall Street
Journal
“Nearly every page of this book contained either an observation so
interesting or a turn of phrase so lovely that I was moved to slow
down, stop, and re-read. . . . [Entangled Life]
reminded me that fungi are, like the Universe,
sublime.”—Science
“An exuberant introduction to the biology, ecology, climatology,
and psychopharmacology of the earth’s ‘metabolic wizards.’”—Harpers
Magazine
“A poetic, mind-bending tour of the fungal world.”—Scientific
American
“Wondrous . . . Humans should consider fungi among
the greatest of earth’s marvels.”—Time (Books of the Year)
“An astonishing book.”—The Observer
“Completely mind-blowing.”—The Sunday Times
“Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our
understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense
World
“I fell in love with this book. Merlin Sheldrake is a scientist
with the imagination of a poet and a beautiful writer.”—Michael
Pollan, author of How to Change Your Mind (Bay Area Book Festival,
2020)
“A magical journey deep into the roots of Nature by an expert
storyteller . . . a must-read.”—Paul Stamets, author
of Mycelium Running
“Reading this book, I felt surrounded by a web of wonder. The
natural world is more fantastic than any fantasy, so long as you
have the means to perceive it. This book provides the means.”—Jaron
Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget
“Urgent, astounding, and necessary.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H
is for Hawk
“Dazzling, vibrant, vision changing.”—Robert Macfarlane, author of
Underland
“Gorgeous.”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Testaments
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