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

　　一場令人目眩神祕、意想不到的驚奇探索之旅，目的地是：真菌的世界！

　　肉眼看不見的神秘世界，隱藏在我們的視野之中，卻構成了一個廣泛多樣的生物王國，足以支持和維繫幾乎所有的生物系統。

　　才華洋溢的生物學家Merlin Sheldrake在此書中為我們解構真菌的世界，如果你想到真菌就是菇類，那可就大大低估了這個微小又重要的系統構造。透過作者不同視角的分析，不論是做麵包的酵母、埋藏在地下數英里的真菌、串連植物的網絡(稱之為木網)或是入侵昆蟲體內操控的寄生菌種，都將真菌的豐富性表露無遺。

　　真菌是生命的新陳代謝大師、地球製造者和關鍵角色，它們是治癒我們的身體，改變我們的思考方式，甚至是成為補救環境災難的解方。Merlin Sheldrake

　　揭示了這些不平凡的生物的存在與運行方式，並讓我們透過人類與生物鍊的關係，真正改變我們對生命運作方式的理解。(文/博客來編譯)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A ＂brilliant [and] entrancing＂ (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the living world--and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.

＂Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.＂--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.

In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us 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 our 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 our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. 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.

Winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award - Shortlisted for the British Book Award - Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from the University of Cambridge 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.