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The Golden Mole

The Golden Mole

and Other Vanishing Treasure ('A rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson)

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  • Release Date: 11/09/2025
  • Barcode: 9780571395316
  • Genre: Science Nature & Math
  • Sub-Genre: Earth Sciences
  • Imprint: Faber
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
The Golden Mole

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and Other Vanishing Treasure ('A rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson)
A lavish new edition of Katherine Rundell's fascinating bestiary, featuring three new additions to the treasure trove of vanishing wonders - sharks, raccoons, and hummingbirds - freshly illustrated by Talya Baldwin.

A lavish edition of Katherine Rundell's gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary, featuring three new additions to the treasure trove of vanishing wonders.

'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

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES AND FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.

A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.

A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to get to the moon and back -- then back to the moon.

There's a fable that storks deliver babies. In fact, the Nazis used them to air-drop propaganda.

A lavishly illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of the world's most endangered animals, this sumptuous, expanded and updated edition of The Golden Mole is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck - to fall for the likes of the wondrous pygmy hippo, the seahorse, the narwhal and, as astonishing and endangered as them all, the human.

Katherine Rundell's book The Golden Mole was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 03-11-2023

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  • Contributor: Talya Baldwin (Illustrated by)
  • Illustrator: Talya Baldwin
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