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'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 AWARDS **

** Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing **

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 to the moon and back twice over - and then once more to the moon. A pangolin keeps its tongue furled in a pouch by its hip. A Greenland shark can live five hundred years. A wombat once inspired a love poem.

'Rundell's pen is gold-tipped.' Sunday Times
'I love everything about this book: it is a rare little treasure.' Joanna Lumley
'Beautifully written.' Monty Don

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure: 'A rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson

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'Exquisite and timely.' Maggie O'Farrell'A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.' Bill Bryson'A witty, intoxicating paean... Read more

    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 20/10/2022
    ISBN13: 9780571362493, 978-0571362493
    ISBN10: 0571362494

    Number of Pages: 208

    Non Fiction , Natural History

    Description

    '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 AWARDS **

    ** Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing **

    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 to the moon and back twice over - and then once more to the moon. A pangolin keeps its tongue furled in a pouch by its hip. A Greenland shark can live five hundred years. A wombat once inspired a love poem.

    'Rundell's pen is gold-tipped.' Sunday Times
    'I love everything about this book: it is a rare little treasure.' Joanna Lumley
    'Beautifully written.' Monty Don

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