I was a bit afraid of reading this, as I read a publication of the author which was as interesting as it was difficult to read. I am happy that the book is rather easy to read. Hard to say what it “is about” – some topics that come to mind are how people and non-people interact and that it is not a solution to say: there are humans and there is nature – both are enmeshed and from human acting can come rich ecosystems, too. It also feels very post Anctor-Network-Theory, since the topic of human and non-human acting is there, but the focus is on trees, fungi, animals rather than on machines, inscriptions and symbolic conversions.

The descriptions of smells and different ways to find the mushrooms are great, I can imagine myself in the narration.