Secret Life of Fungi

Discoveries From a Hidden World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Aliyah Whiteley

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_____ Fungiare not like us – they are entirely, magically, something else. Welcometo the astonishing secret world of fungi. _____Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes tofrozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and thoughts; live between our toesor our floorboards; they are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats;symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence,there's still much to learn about the eruption, growth and decay of theirinterconnected world. AliyaWhiteley has always been in love with fungi - from a childhood taking blurryphotographs of strange fungal eruptions on Exmoor to a career as a writerinspired by their surreal and alien beauty. This love for fungi is a love forlife, from single-cell spores to the largest living organism on the planet; astory stretching from Aliya's lawn into orbit and back again via everycontinent.From fields, feasts and fairy rings to deathcaps, puffballs and ambrosia beetles, this is an intoxicating journey into thelife of extraordinary organism, one that we have barely begun tounderstand. _____ 'Accessible, inviting and revelatory… Aliya Whiteley animates the hidden worldof fungi in prose as rich and beautiful as the strange organisms she turns herattention to.' - Alice Tarbuck, author of A Spell in the Wild

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-22
Mått129 x 198 x 23 mm
Vikt0 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagElliott & Thompson Limited
ISBN9781783965304

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Aliya Whiteley grew up in North Devon and developed an early passion for walking and observing nature. She has written about the natural world for Mental Floss and in her fiction, which has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award among others. Whiteley’s novella The Beauty depicted a future world in which a fungus interacts with humanity and creates a new form of life, leading readers all over the world to send her photographs and articles relating to mushrooms. Her new novel, Greensmith (2020), deals with seed banks and viruses and the current global threat to diversity. She walks through the woods and fields around her home in West Sussex every day, taking inspiration from the hidden worlds around her.

Contents; Introduction ix; Erupt; 1 To Name, To Know 3; 2 A Small Field 9; 3 The Common Mushroom 17; 4 Forays and Feasts 23; 5 Learn, Carry, Collect 27; 6 Saviours 33; 7 Fruiting Cities 39; 8 Weak Seeds Need Strong Friends 45; 9 Cryptic Clues 51; 10 Blanket Coverage 55; 11 Slow Dancers, Thrown High 59; Spread; 1 Nosing 65; 2 Spire 71; 3 The Giant 75; 4 Walking the Floor 81; 5 Old Stones 85; 6 Under Alice 91; 7 Expansions 95; 8 Once Upon a Beetle 99; 9 Seven Ways to Survive 105; 10 Stowaways of the Space Age 117; Decay; 1 Gathering the Dead 125; 2 The Big Stick 129; 3 Fire, Faith and Gangrene 137; 4 Where the Rule Bends 143; 5 Killer Club 147; 6 Underground Visions 151; 7 To Live and Die in Fungi 157; 8 Grasp 163; 9 Onwards, Downwards, Upwards 167; Afterword 171; Dramatis Fungi 175; Bibliography 177; A Reading List of Fungal Fiction 185; Acknowledgements 187; Index 189