Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind
In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms
$21.75
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2026
Summary
The secret world of fungi is another kingdom. They do things differently there. Diverse beyond our wildest imaginations, fungi don’t obey rules. They pop up unbidden and often dressed in curious reds and greens.
They do not seem of this world, yet fungi underpin all the life around us: the ‘wood wide web’ links the trees by a subterranean telegraph; fungi eat the fallen trunks and leaves to recycle the nutrients that keep the wood alive; they feed a host of beetles an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008639723 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0008639728 |
| Author: | Richard Fortey |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | William Collins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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PRAISE FOR RICHARD FORTEY
‘Dazzling … Richard Fortey is without peer amongst science writers’ Bill Bryson
‘This is the way science should be written: so engagingly that it makes you forget that you’re actually learning something (actually, you’re learning a lot), and carrying you swiftly from page to page… filled with insight, science, history, charm and wit’ The Times
‘Fortey’s books are always a treat. It’s not just that they are beautifully written in mellifluous prose but that his vision is wonderfully humane’ Evening Standard
‘Fortey’s prose is a joy … his sharp eye and ceaselessly inquiring mind are an inspiration’ Daily Mail
‘Delightful and beautifully written, Fortey has an eye for the world about him that would be envied by some travel writers… interesting and impassioned’ Literary Review
Richard Fortey
Richard Fortey retired from his position as senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in 2006. His previous books include the critically acclaimed Life: An Unauthorized Biography, Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, The Hidden Landscape, which won the Natural World Book of the Year in 1993 and Fossils - A Key to the Past which is now in its third edition. He also won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Science Writing in 2003. He was Collier Professor for the Public Understanding of Science in 2002, has been elected to be President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007, and is a member of the Royal Society. His latest book is Dry Store Room no 1 – The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum.
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