ENTANGLED LIFE: The Illustrated Edition

In terms of plant and nature photography, this book remains unsurpassed in its study of how fungi makes our world. It is a lavish visual journey in a beautiful new edition of the Sunday Times bestseller featuring 100 illustrations of the hidden lives of fungi. It is one of those rare books that recalibrates our understanding of the natural world and the earth-shaking implications of Sheldrake's argument. When we think of fungi we probably think of mushrooms, but they are only fruiting bodies, like apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight and make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. They provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we feel, think and behave. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original by the author, features over 100 full colour images showing the spectacular variety, strangeness and beauty of fungi, whether little clusters of creamy cone tips, tousled hyphae, amber blobs with potential anti-inflammatory, anti-tumour and insecticidal properties alongside coloured pigments. And there are Carpenter ants infected with fungus, Cladonia lichen looking like tall green trees, we notice the foraging behaviour of the wood-rotting fungus Phanerochaete velutina or a beautiful fungi with clusters of spores in bright green. Few other organisms are so good at persuading humans to disperse them with such urgency! Every page contains an observation so interesting or a turn of phrase so lovely that you are moved to slow down, stop and re-read as we are introduced to the biology, ecology, climatology and psychopharmacology of the earth's 'metabolic wizards.' A million-copy prize winning bestseller, first time discounted. 240 very large pages, 100 full page colour close-up images.
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