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The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure

by Katherine Rundell

  

€ 13.75 

ISBN: 9780571362509

Shortlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awards.

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

'Rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson
'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' Observer
'Exquisite and timely.' Maggie O'Farrell

** Shortlisted for the Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year **

In The Golden Mole, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's strangest and most awe-inspiring animals, including pangolins, wombats, lemurs and seahorses. But each of these animals is endangered. And so, this most passionately persuasive and sharply funny book is also an urgent, inspiring clarion call: to treasure and act - to save nature's vanishing wonders, before it is too late.

208 pages.

Main Edition

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Usually despatched in 2-5 working days.

Date of Publication: 02/11/2023

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