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

In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced readers 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 off common 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 one’s mind, heal one’s body, and even help to remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and human relationships with them—are changing popular understandings of how life works.