How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures
Hardcover, 368 pages
English language
Published Sept. 3, 2020 by The Bodley Head.
I love science poetry and this it it. Full of facts but a pleasure to read.
Wonderful, informative, entertaining, and frightening. Exactly what I wanted in a book about fungus.
I would never have thought that a book about fungi could be a page-turner, I honestly couldn’t put it down. It is just a phenomenal, truly remarkable book.
For most of us fungus is a drug, a pizza topping, or perhaps an infection. For Merlin Sheldrake, a biologist who worked on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, fungus is an entire kingdom of life as diverse as plants and animals. Fungi are indeed the largest and oldest group of living organisms.
Well-researched and beautifully written. Essential reading.
rich in references, to the point that if one wants to follow them all it becomes an endless rabbit hole
I feel forlorn. There I was, two-thirds in, savoring every page, when suddenly: Epilogue. (The rest are endnotes. They look tantalizing, but I wish I'd known about them up front). Anyhow, I was enjoying it so so much and was not ready for it to end. I hope you'll be better prepared.
If you've been following the exciting work on mycorrhizal systems; if you loved Fantastic Fungi; if relationships (among humans and all living creatures) fascinate you -- you will likely enjoy this book. If you ever ponder the illusion of Self, or marvel at our Earth -- you will learn from this book and love the process.
