Entangled life
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The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.
'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane
Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021
The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi.
These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. Their ability to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web’, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented.
Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 september 2021
Aantal pagina's: 368
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Merlin Sheldrake
Hoofduitgeverij: Vintage
AI-gegenereerd: Nee
Editie: 1
Product breedte: 130 mm
Product hoogte: 34 mm
Product lengte: 196 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 128 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 30 mm
Verpakking lengte: 197 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 348 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9781784708276