A vivid journey into the mysterious subterranean world of mycelium and its fruit— the mushroom. A narrative that begins 3.5 billion years in the past, fungi makes the soil that helps life, connecting huge techniques of roots from crops and bushes all around the planet, like an underground Web. By means of the eyes of famend mycologist Paul Stamets, professor of forest ecology Suzanne Simard, finest promoting creator Michael Pollan, meals naturalist Eugenia Bone and others, we expertise the facility, magnificence and complexity of the fungi kingdom.