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Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

By Merlin Sheldrake

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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About Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer. He received a Ph.D. in Tropical Ecology from Cambridge University 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. He is a musician and keen fermenter. Entangled Life is his first book.
www.merlinsheldrake.com

Merlin Sheldrake photo credit: Hanna Katrina Jedrosz