'A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.' Bill Bryson
'A total miracle.' Max Porter

'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's wondrous creatures.' Observer

'Rundell's pen is gold-tipped.' Sunday Times
** SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR **

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.

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