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Book Synopsis''Exquisite and timely.'' Maggie O''Farrell
''A rare and magical book. I didn''t want it to end.'' Bill Bryson
''A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's wondrous creatures.'' Observer
''A total miracle.'' Max Porter
** Shortlisted for Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year **
** Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing **
** A Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller **
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this passionately persuasive and sharply funny book, Katherine Rundell tells us how and why.
A lavishly illustrated collection of the lives of some of the Earth's most astounding animals, The Golden Mole is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.
A swift flies two million kilometres in its lifetime. That's far enough to get
