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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

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The bit that I'm on is whether nature is red in tooth and claw and how Darwinism can be interpreted as right or left wing.

About the author: Journalist and author of Witch’s Garden — Plants in folklore, magic and traditional medicine (2020, also by Welbeck/Kew), Miss Willmott’s Ghosts (2022, Blink Publishing), and more. Extended summary: A semi-human investigator tries to find out what three scientists discovered on the fungal planet Nacre. Sheldrake is a rare scientist who is not afraid to speculate about the truly profound implications of their work. Bringing together technology, medicine, food, culture, and nature, this fascinating book will open your eyes to the wonders of the hidden kingdom all around us. 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.An invaluable reference book to aid identification at home, but a little too big to be used in the field. You will go mad if you just try to look through guidebook photos for things that look a bit like your specimen! They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation.

However if you have an interest in the natural world and are just discovering the world of Fungi, the title of this review is apt. Leading mycological artists have been specially commissioned to ensure accurate, detailed illustrations. In this book, leading fungal biologists Lynne Boddy and Ali Ashby bring you closer to 300 species of mushrooms and lichens through fascinating facts, mushroom datasets, and detailed illustrations. The acclaimed and award-winning author and artist of A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars have created a timely—and funny! Featured quite prominently are illustrations by James Sowerby (1757–1822), Joseph-Henri Léveillé (1796–1870), Anna Maria Hussey (1805–1853), and Elsie Maud Wakefield (1886–1972).He is the coauthor of New Naturalist: Fungi, Checklist of the British and Irish Basidomycota, and British Chanterella and Tooth Fungi. This book gave me a deeper understanding and appreciation for trees and made me think about how much we could be learning from our distant relatives, rather than thinking everything else needs to learn from us. Since then I have gone from being zero to hero and especially with regard to soil because since 1982 I've been gardening with the no dig method. The more attentive already realise that the material from which that mesh is woven is partly fungal. We owe a great debt to Sheldrake for lifting his eyes from the microscope for long enough to enlighten us about the wonders of fungi.

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