Katherine Rundell Collection (The Golden Mole & Super-Infinite) 2 Books Set - Non Fiction - Paperback Faber & Faber

Titles in this Set: 1. The Golden Mole: And Other Vanishing Treasure 2. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne Description: The Golden Mole: And Other Vanishing Treasure The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In The Golden Mole, Katherine Rundell, the award-winning author of Super-Infinite and Impossible Creatures, takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world’s strangest and most awe-inspiring animals, including pangolins, wombats, lemurs and seahorses. But each of these animals is endangered. And so, this most passionately persuasive and sharply funny book is also an urgent, inspiring clarion call: to treasure and act – to save nature’s vanishing wonders, before it is too late. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral – and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times – unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. ...