Notes

and other vanishing treasure /
Katherine Rundell ; illustrations by Tayla Baldwin.

197 pages :

illustrations.

Summary: Katherine Rundell tells us how and why. An 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. (Distributor)