In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi/ They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year 2021 Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation 2021
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Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows piranhas glide through its waters boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. The River of Doubtit is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. NATIONAL BESTSELLER At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portraitthe bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone, that sense of principle, that chastity of honour that felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it lessened ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. 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