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The Secret Life of Fungi

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The Secret Life of Fungi

By: Aliya Whitely
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
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Fungi are unlike any other living thing - they’re almost magically unique. Welcome to this astonishing world....

Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and 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 their secret interconnected world.

Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with fungi - from her 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.

From fields, feasts, and fairy rings to death caps, puffballs, and ambrosia beetles, this is an intoxicating journey into the life of an extraordinary organism, one that we have barely begun to understand.

©2021 Aliya Whitely (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Ecosystems & Habitats Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science
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Beautifully read with a soft feminine voice. Very well researched and poetically presented. A very enjoyable journey through the world and history of fungi

Enlightening listen

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I found the narrator’s voice jarring and unsuitable for this book. The writer is fairly young, as is a lot of the recent research referred to. Narrator didn’t sound like who would wake up hung over after a dance party in the forest. Narration made listening to this difficult.

Didn’t find the narrator suites this

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This was a chance decision to listen to. Non-fiction, biology. The author’s passion for her subject, intertwined with personal anecdotes, along with her passion for language made this an interesting journey. I liked finding out interesting facts on the every day and the unusual.

Not my usual genre

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This was written so amazingly that i didn't feel like it was a clinical description given of the fungi and the author did an amazing job of incorporating it into her telling of her life story and her love of this amazing organism. I would recommend this to everyone

inspiring

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Having previously read other secret life or hidden life type books I expected more detail about fungi and instead it was more a compilation of the author’s experiences in searching out fungi.

Not really what I expected

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