NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A brilliant [and] entrancing (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungithe great connectors of the living worldand their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.

Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARTime, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi