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The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful
than our wildest imaginings. 'Rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson
'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.'
Observer 'Exquisite and timely.' Maggie O'Farrell ** Shortlisted
for the Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year ** In The Golden
Mole, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the
world's strangest and most awe-inspiring animals, including
pangolins, wombats, lemurs and seahorses. But each of these animals
is endangered. And so, this most passionately persuasive and
sharply funny book is also an urgent, inspiring clarion call: to
treasure and act - to save nature's vanishing wonders, before it is
too late. 'Deeply affecting, intimate and wildly funny . . . I
loved it.' Edmund de Waal 'A wondrous ode to nature's astonishing
beauty - and an elegy for all the life we are in the midst of
destroying.' Amia Srinivasan 'An exuberant celebration of
everything from bats, crows and hedgehogs to narwhals and wombats .
. . Rundell is incapable of writing a dull sentence.' Observer
'There is a constant joy in the book . . . A sense throughout of
delight and wonder, and a reminder that these emotions also matter
- may even save us. This is the point.' New Statesman
'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 ** 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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