{"product_id":"9780571362493","title":"The Golden Mole : and Other Living Treasure: 'A rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson by Talya Baldwin","description":"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 **** Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing **** A Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller **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 Katherine Rundell's book The Golden Mole was a Sunday Times bestseller w\/c 04-11-2023\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201811120306,"sku":"9780571362493","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9780571362493_94c0d517-3f81-43ae-80ef-c866518f924e.jpg?v=1699037715","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571362493","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}