Entangled
Back in September, I found this book in a broken drystone wall up near Redmires reservoirs. It had been placed there by the vlogger, Jack Roscoe whose channel is called "Northern Introvert" . Fortunately, I was the first of his followers to get there. Well, I must admit that a science-based book about fungi is not the kind of book I would normally pick but because of the delightful circumstances by which I acquired "Entangled Life" by Merlin Sheldrake, I felt almost compelled to read it. Merlin Sheldrake is an expert mycologist and passionate about his chosen area of study. He attended The University of Cambridge and later undertook his PhD study of underground fungal networks in Panama's tropical forests as a predoctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is not some sort of New Age charlatan promoting magic mushrooms. He is fundamentally a respected scientist who has discovered that the more he studies mycylial network...