carries us easily into these questions with ebullience and precision.' Jennifer Szalai of The New York Times called the book an 'ebullient and ambitious exploration' of fungi, adding, 'reading it left me not just moved but altered, eager to disseminate its message of what fungi can do.' Eugenia Bone of The Wall Street Journal called it 'a gorgeous book of literary nature writing in the tradition of Macfarlane and John Fowles, ripe with insight and erudition.' Rachel Cooke of The Observer called it 'an astonishing book that could alter our perceptions of fungi forever.' Richard Kerridge, reviewing the book in The Guardian, wrote that 'when we look closely, we meet large, unsettling questions. The book was published to largely positive reviews. He is the son of Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist, and Jill Purce, an author and therapist, and the brother of musician Cosmo Sheldrake. Sheldrake is an expert in mycorrhizal fungi, holds a PhD in tropical ecology from the University of Cambridge for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and his research is primarily in the fields of fungal biology and the history of Amazonian ethnobotany. It is also a personal account of Sheldrake's experiences with fungi.

It uses music and philosophy to illustrate its thesis, and introduces readers to a number of central strands of research on mycology. The book looks at fungi from a number of angles, including decomposition, fermentation, nutrient distribution, psilocybin production, the evolutionary role fungi play in plants, and the ways in which humans relate to the fungal kingdom. His first book, it was published by Random House on. Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservationĮntangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures is a 2020 non-fiction book on mycology by British biologist Merlin Sheldrake.

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