The Golden Mole

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 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.

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.