Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms

A magical, deeply informed book that takes us from familiar places into the strange world of fungi.

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 re...