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The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure

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內容簡介 人類與動物的歷史與這個星球一樣淵遠流長，但可能因為都市開發帶來各種水土汙染，導致他們的生存環境轉變或消失，許多美麗且令人驚嘆的動物其實正在消失中。作者Katherine Rundell是知名的童書作家，她熱愛大自然，時常關注自然生態與動物保育議題，也曾為寫新書，將英國水石童書獎贏來的獎金拿去買前往亞馬遜雨林的機票。這本書中，在21個來自不同地域、緯度的物種裡，無論是袋熊、格陵蘭小頭睡鯊、獨角鯨或穿山甲，Katherine帶領讀者回逤這些動物的歷史典故與獲神話傳說，介紹他們象徵的意義與實際上生物的特色，最終才回到我們自身─人類，身為目前最有智慧的靈長類物種，是否能有更多元且包容的態度，與這些比我們早好幾萬年就來到世上的動物友善共存？搭配插畫家Tayla Baldwin細膩精琢的筆觸與現代感的用色，讓整本書就如同一顆閃爍著金色光芒的寶石，一如書中介紹的美麗動物般珍貴。收錄動物：袋熊、格陵蘭小睡頭鯊、長頸鹿、雨燕、狐猴、寄居蟹、海豹、熊、獨角鯨、烏鴉、野兔、狼、刺蝟、大象、海馬、穿山甲、鸛鳥、蜘蛛、蝙蝠、金槍魚、金毛鼴鼠、人類。'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'Rundell's pen is gold-tipped.' Sunday Times'I love everything about this book: it is a rare little treasure.' Joanna Lumley** SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES AND FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS **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."

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各界推薦 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 ’A wondrous ode to nature’s astonishing beauty - and an elegy for all the life we are in the midst of destroying. This is a book filled with love and hope and whiskers and wings, by turns ravishing and devastating. No one sings the praises of the world quite like Katherine Rundell.’ -- Amia Srinivasan

作者介紹

作者介紹 Katherine RundellKatherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her bestselling books for children have been translated into more than thirty languages and have won multiple awards. Rundell is also the author of a book for adults, Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, and writes occasionally for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times.

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最佳賣點 : 以黑白線稿和金粉繪製各種瀕危的美麗生物

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