Fantastic Fungi, Paul Stamets
Fantastic Fungi, Paul Stamets
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Fantastic Fungi
How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet

Author: Paul Stamets

Narrator: Eugenia Bone

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The Life-Affirming, Mind-Bending Companion Audiobook to the Hit Documentary FANTASTIC FUNGI.

Viewed in over 100 countries and selling hundreds of thousands of tickets, Schwartzberg’s documentary Fantastic Fungi has brought the mycological revolution to the world stage. This is the film’s official companion audiobook, that expands on the documentary’s message: that mushrooms and fungi will change your life– and save the planet.

Paul Stamets, the world’s preeminent mushroom and fungi expert is joined by leading ecologists, doctors, and explorers such as Michael Pollan, Dr. Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone, Fantastic Fungi director Louie Schwartzberg, and many more. Together these luminaries show how fungi and mushrooms can restore the planet’s ecosystems, repair our physical health, and renew humanity’s symbiotic relationship with nature. Join the Movement: Learn about the groundbreaking research that shows why mushrooms stand to provide a solution to environmental challenges, a viable alternative to traditional medicine, and a chance to radically shift consciousness. Most Comprehensive Fungi book in the world: Admire the astounding, under appreciated beauty with over 400 gloriously-shot photographs of the mycelial world’s most rare and beautiful species in their natural environment. World’s Leading Fungi Experts: Edited by preeminent mycologist Paul Stamets, who contributes original pieces, Fantastic Fungi includes original contributions by bestselling author and activist Michael Pollan, alternative medicine expert Dr. Andrew Weil, award-winning nature and food writer Eugenia Bone, Fantastic Fungi director Louie Schwartzberg, and so many more. The book’s roster of experts make this the most comprehensive survey of the diverse benefits and extraordinary potential of these amazing organisms.
This audiobook is beautifully narrated by contributing author Eugenia Bone.

Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2019 Earth Aware Editions and Louie Schwartzberg (P)2024 Echo Point Books and Media, LLC

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eduardo

Sublime. It's sometimes hard to concentrate on the text, because the photos are so exquisitely distractingly beautiful. Make the effort anyway. Many voices, culturally diverse, offering perspectives and findings you may not have heard before -- there is much new to me here. [Update 2019-12-25] I just......more

Goodreads review by Katrina

I’ll forward this critique with the fact that for a long time Paul Stamets was my hero and I’m studying to be a mycologist so the topic of this book speaks to my soul. However, in the years following his TED talk I’ve found that Stamets makes a lot of claims without scientific studies to back them u......more

Goodreads review by Marzie

A beautiful companion to the lauded documentary about Paul Stamets' life's work researching fungi, mycelial networks, and the effects of fungi on human health and psychoactivity. With distractingly beautiful photography, this book reiterates in written form all of the amazing facts about fungi and t......more