Mole disappears while answering what he thinks is an urgent summons from Rat, causing Badger to enlist help from Toad and his new airplane in a frantic search party.

Most remember the Wind in the Willows as a cosy tale—picnics on the river, Ratty and Mole, and Mr Toad’s glorious chaos. But hidden in its reeds is a chapter so strange many editions cut it entirely. Why did Kenneth Grahame place a pagan god at the heart...