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Entangled Life
- How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
- Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Publisher's Summary
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.
“Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.
In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original, features more than one hundred full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness, and beauty of fungi to life as never before.
Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.
Winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award • Shortlisted for the British Book Award • Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
What the critics say
“Sheldrake is admirably humble, knowing that there is much more to be discovered about the fungal web all around us. He has a slightly husky, convincingly precise voice, and his mental and physical involvement in his subject is brought out by his thoughtful, amused narration and allusive, often almost poetic cast of mind.”—Christina Hardyment, The Times, Audiobook of the Week
“I fell in love with this book. Merlin is a scientist with the imagination of a poet and a beautiful writer. . . . This is a book that, by virtue of the power of its writing, shifts your sense of the human. . . . It will inspire a generation to enter mycology.”—Michael Pollan (Bay Area Book Festival, 2020)
“Fungi are everywhere, and Merlin Sheldrake is an ideal guide to their mysteries. He’s passionate, deeply knowledgeable, and a wonderful writer.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
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- Zac
- 2020-12-13
Very cool
Mention of Deleuze plus psychedelics. Very cool! I recommend people watch Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia for more on drug related information.
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- Rachel Ridley
- 2020-11-16
Great listen
I really enjoyed this listen because of the interesting scientific facts but the stories that went along with them were stimulating and easy to follow. Also the writer's voice is really relaxing. I listened to this while painting a collection of mushrooms, definitely got me in the zone :)
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- Mr Robot
- 2020-10-08
Fungi established ecosystems but nobody knows
Sheldrake is brilliant and passionate about fungi and it conveys beautifully in this book. I began getting interested in fungi from other podcasts but this book really opened my eyes to just how pivotal fungi were, and still are, in the health of our soils, waterways, and entire ecosystems. For such an enormous kingdom of life to historically be denounced or ignored is a travesty, given the data we have that overwhelmingly points to fungi having the role of establishing ecosystems, when plantlife was only just establishing on land, and building subterranean networks of mycelium that links plants, delivers nutrients, and ultimately encourages the forward evolution of other species. We owe immense gratitude to this misunderstood kingdom, and if you are a junior looking for a major in college, please look in to mycology. I'm certainly doing so myself!
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- 2beeabee
- 2020-10-29
Just Fantastic!
Merlin Sheldrake is fantastic in his capacity to educate, entertain and engage. Well done Merlin!
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- Alex White
- 2021-03-03
Fascinating!
Very well written book with the perfect narrator, exactly what I was hoping for.
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- Chris
- 2021-02-19
Incredible
One of the most fascinating reads/listens ever. Truly a book that can/will change the way you see the world.
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- Ty Schultz
- 2020-11-18
Wonderful
An absolutely fabulous dance through the fibres of life that leaves a trail of wonder,a moment of enlightenment and a fascination with the largely unseen.
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- Tracy
- 2020-10-04
fantastic
Highly recommended reading or listening. I will likely buy the book as well. Very well done on all fronts.
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- Alex
- 2020-09-28
Awesome And Calming
Great book for those looking to satisfy their mycological fix. The author does a great job of reading his work, its informing and meditative.
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- Denbeigh Whitmarsh
- 2023-10-27
Absolutely breathtaking
I have never been a reader of non-fiction, but Sheldrake has brought me to the other side. This is not only an incredible work of science, but also of littérature. One of the best books I’ve ever read.
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- Cephalopods Revenge
- 2020-05-12
Mycology for Everyone
Call me a biased Mycophile, but this was such a great book.
I preordered it, and downloaded as soon as it was available.
The pictures Merlin paints with his words are fantastic, not to mention his wonderfully soft voice that makes for easy listening. (Maybe don’t listen at night while driving, could be mistake for a lullaby).
A perfect book for the times of isolation and quarantine as it fills our minds with the childlike excitement of discovery in our neighboring woods.
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- Stacy Martin
- 2020-06-18
So good that I went and bought the book too!
First, Mr Sheldrake has a lovely, mesmerizing voice and pleasant cadence to his reading. The content is very rich and detailed, so several times I re-listened to parts just to retain as much as I could. It’s a great mix of natural history, scientific discovery, human culture and Sheldrake’s musings on how it’s all interwoven and dependent on mycelium-but yet still mysterious and emanating wonder. Didn’t want it to end!
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- Elan Sun Star
- 2020-06-20
Brilliant and insightful! plant wisdom and science
What an incredible book /audiobook. I have read 40 books on this subject but this is quite the best.. and very accessible.
From a family of plant wise elders (Rupert Sheldrake) and a very worthy leader in the field. With a fantastic narration voice and the insights from a lifetime of observation fosters by his Dad , Rupert Sheldrake , this book incorporates many of the essential wisdom needed to solve some of the most challenging issues of our time.
it is an amazing and rich compilation of philosophy and biocentrism and biophilia
I highly suggest this book
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- Gerald Albertson
- 2020-06-27
Unusually marvelous
One of the most fascinating books I have ever listened to. Sheldrake voice is made for audio books. His voice is soothing and captivating. And the subject of fungi has so much depth we doubtless will be part of its story as technology begins to unlock wonderful secrets from a life form we know so little about. In my top 10 of all time.
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- Gigi
- 2020-07-06
Fascinating insight into a hidden world
I am an educated medical professional who had no idea that the mycelial internet existed until a couple of years ago when I saw a popular film about the life of mushrooms. This wonderful book blows open one’s doors of perception with an amazing depth and breadth of information I never knew that I needed to know. Wow! Great book, highly recommend for the scientifically curious and lovers of the earth.
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- Richard
- 2020-07-08
Intriguing book, poor narration by author
A fascinating book about fungi. The author constantly finds way to shift your anthropocentric perspective. Unfortunately the author, Merlin Sheldrake, is not a professional reader and has a monotone voice that detracts from the experience rather than, as a good narrator does, adds to it. I still recommend the book, as it is so unusual and informative.
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- SamanthaG
- 2020-12-26
About as interesting as mushrooms
I found it really difficult to keep reading this book. I've really enjoyed other books about odd members of life on earth - For instance, Hope Jahren's Lab Girl (dumb name, interesting treatise on trees). There was so much I did not know about trees and their life-cycles and circulatory systems and she made it sooo interesting. Then there was Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds, mostly about octopuses. Who knew they were so smart and interesting and so short-lived. I was hoping to find the same to be true of fungi, but to me, they just didn't measure up and I found it difficult to stay engaged in learning about them.
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- C Jewell
- 2020-07-24
Incredible
This is one you'll listen to over and over again. Then you will try endlessly to figure out how to get Merlin's beautiful voice to narrate your dreams.
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- Kyle Wilson
- 2020-10-19
Fascinating!
Absolutely loved this book. What a cool perspective on the world we live in. If you’re even remotely interested in plants, trees, mushrooms, or any aspect of the systems and structures that make up planet earth, you will love this book.
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- Ran Away
- 2020-06-18
Beautiful and Informative
Wonderfully written and read! You’ll learn about fungi, be confronted with ambiguities and complex relationships, while enjoying poetic metaphors that bring the ideas to life and closer to home
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