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The Golden Mole

And Other Vanishing Treasure

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The Golden Mole

By: Katherine Rundell, Talya Baldwin
Narrated by: Lenny Henry
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Summary

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.

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Critic Reviews

"A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end." (Bill Bryson)

"Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power." (Observer)

"Rundell's pen is gold-tipped." (Sunday Times)
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