A lavish new edition of Katherine Rundell’s fascinating bestiary, featuring three new additions to the treasure trove of vanishing wonders – sharks, raccoons, and hummingbirds – freshly illustrated by Talya Baldwin.
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.
Hardback. Signed bookplate included.
