
a book
The Golden Mole
Katherine Rundell · 2022 · 196 pages
"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 giraffe was once given to the King of France; she marched through the streets, dressed in the finest couture raincoat Paris could produce. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it neatly furled in a pouch near the hip. 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."--
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Tom Holland
“Katherine Mundell, in her beautiful but sad book on the wonders of the living world, The Golden Mole, introduces me to the concept of ‘extinction speculation’: collecting the body parts of animals in the expectation of selling them for astronomical sums when they go extinct.”↗