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. 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

Svět je podivuhodnější, zázračnější a báječnější než naše nejdivočejší představy. Zlatý krtek, bohatě ilustrovaná sbírka příběhů některých z nejpozoruhodnějších živočichů na Zemi: zlatokrt, medvěd, žirafa, luskoun, rorýs, slon a mnoho dalších, je příležitostí užasnout a zamilovat se – počítat s krásou světa, jeho křehkostí a zvláštností.

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.