Descriere
'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
From bears to bats to hermit crabs, a witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's wondrous creatures . . . shot through with Rundell's characteristic wit and swagger. ― Guardian
A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end. -- Bill Bryson
A book as rare and precious as a golden mole. A joyous catalogue of curiosities that builds into a timely reminder that life on planet is worth our wonder. -- Frank Cottrell-Boyce
A loving and lovely book. -- Sarah Moss
Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power. ― Observer
'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. This is a book filled with love and hope and whiskers and wings, by turns ravishing and devastating. No one sings the praises of the world quite like Katherine Rundell.' -- Amia Srinivasan
Rundell is a class act. ― The Times
Rundell is an astonishing young talent. ― Daily Mail
It is among my proudest boasts, that I was massive Rundell fan before she became a national treasure. -- Dan Snow
Rundell's pen is gold-tipped. ― Sunday Times
She's beguiling us with an exquisitely written bestiary of the world's most astonishing animals. I shall be jealously guarding my own copy and buying several more for Christmas presents. -- Jacqueline Wilson
Teaming up with the illustrator Talya Baldwin, she has created a paper menagerie of twenty-two exquisite, daunting and vulnerable creatures. -- Literary Review
Exquisitely written. ― Times
An exuberant celebration of everything from bats, crows and hedgehogs to narwhals and wombats . . . Rundell is incapable of writing a dull sentence. ― Observer
