The Golden Mole

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

Katherine Rundell, Talya Baldwin

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9780571362516
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Biological Sciences

'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.

Table of contents

• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Wombat
• The Greenland Shark
• The Giraffe
• The Swift
• The Lemur
• The Hermit Crab
• The Seal
• The Bear
• The Narwhal
• The Crow
• The Hare
• The Wolf
• The Hedgehog
• The Elephant
• The Seahorse
• The Pangolin
• The Stork
• The Spider
• The Bat
• The Tuna
• The Golden Mole
• The Human
• Author’s Note
• About This Book
• Acknowledgements
• Further Reading
• Also by Katherine Rundell
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright