Fungi are not like us - they are entirely, magically, something else. Welcome to the astonishing secret world of fungi.
Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with fungi - from a childhood taking blurry photographs of strange fungal eruptions on Exmoor to a career as a writer inspired by their surreal and alien beauty. This love for fungi is a love for life, from single-cell spores to the largest living organism on the planet; a story stretching from Aliya's lawn into orbit and back again via every continent. Despite their familiar presence, there's still much to learn about the eruption, growth and decay of their interconnected world.
From fields, feasts and fairy rings to death caps, puffballs and ambrosia beetles, this is an intoxicating personal journey into the life of extraordinary organism, one that we have barely begun to understand.
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
ISBN: 9781783966042
Number of pages: 208
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
If you loved Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer & Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard you need to read this book!
A blend of science, nature, folklore and a sprinkling of Whiteley’s childhood mushroom...
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Covering everything from sourdough to spore prints, plastic-eating mushrooms to the effects of fungi on the human body, and even the lives of lichens, this book zips along at a pace, covering every aspect of the lives... More
I'd never really thought about mushrooms and fungi much before reading this book, beyond thinking that they were kind of cool. I'd come to like eating mushrooms in the last few years, I was aware of them... More
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