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Katherine Rundell

Biography

Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell is the internationally bestselling author of IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES. Her other books for children include ROOFTOPPERS, CARTWHEELING IN THUNDERSTORMS, THE WOLF WILDER, THE EXPLORER and THE GOOD THIEVES. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels and London, and is currently a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. For adult readers, Rundell has written VANISHING TREASURES: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures and SUPER-INFINITE: The Transformations of John Donne, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. She was the recipient of the British Book Award for Book of the Year and Author of the Year.

Katherine Rundell

Books by Katherine Rundell

by Katherine Rundell - Essays, Nature, Nonfiction

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In VANISHING TREASURES, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyes --- to see the magic of the animals we live among, their unknown histories and capabilities, and, above all, how lucky we are to tread the same ground as such vanishing treasures.