Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
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 research associate of the Vrije University, Amsterdam, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks.
Entangled Life is an international bestseller, winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 and the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a host of other prizes, including the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2021 for Narrative Non-Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021. Entangled Life was also featured as Radio 4's Book of the Week and selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Time, among others. It has been translated into twenty languages.
After this book, nothing will seem the same again ... beautifully written and illustrated ... dazzling ... reveals a world that's both more extraordinary and more delicate than could be imagined
Mail on Sunday
Riveting and surprising at every turn ... A sensory as well as an intellectual pleasure
New Statesman
Wondrous ... Humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth's marvels
Time, Books of the Year
Mind-boggling ... It's tempting ... to see fungi as the biological model for a better world
Telegraph
Truly astounding ... An engrossing, captivating journey
Spectator
Gorgeous, intelligent, utterly absorbing ... it expands our world, and makes us look up from the page with renewed wonder
Irish Times
One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you ... revelatory ... astounding ... and brimming with infectious joy
HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk
A true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the living world ... I hope and trust that it will become an instant classic
GEORGE MONBIOT
Blew my mind ... Essential reading. Go and get swept up in a new world
ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature
Astonishing ... it's impossible to finish this book without feeling awestruck
ANDREW MOTION, TLS Books of the Year
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
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 research associate of the Vrije University, Amsterdam, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks.
Entangled Life is an international bestseller, winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 and the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a host of other prizes, including the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2021 for Narrative Non-Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021. Entangled Life was also featured as Radio 4's Book of the Week and selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Time, among others. It has been translated into twenty languages.