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A Brief History of Earth
By: Andrew H. Knoll
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist.“A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked... Read more
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
By: Nick Offerman
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the... Read more
Better Living Through Birding
By: Christian Cooper
Narrated by: Christian Cooper
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.
"Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World
Christian Cooper is a self-described... Read more
The Future is Degrowth
By: Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan & Andrea V...
Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with... Read more
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Two Trees Make a Forest
By: Jessica J. Lee
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan
A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee hikes mountains home to... Read more
The Feather Thief
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
As heard on NPR's This American Life
“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor
A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an... Read more
Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
By: Marc Reisner
Narrated by: Lawrie Mott, Francis J Spieler & Kate Udall
Length: 27 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise... Read more
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Where the Water Goes
By: David Owen
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal
An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.
The Colorado River is an... Read more
The Parrot and the Igloo
By: David Lipsky
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 18 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The... Read more
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The Treeline
By: Ben Rawlence
Narrated by: Jamie Parker
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the “lung” at the top of the world.
For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet... Read more
Wasteland
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Narrated by: Chris Harper
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy—and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?
In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste... Read more
Secondhand
By: Adam Minter
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably across the country—or even halfway across the world—to people and places eager to reuse what you don’t want. In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail... Read more
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What Your Food Ate
By: Anne Biklé & David R. Montgomery
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Are you really what you eat?
David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately... Read more
The Draw of the Sea
By: Wyl Menmuir
Narrated by: Wyl Menmuir
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Wyl Menmuir’s The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the sea holds over the human imagination.
‘A beautiful portrait of lives shaped by the swell of ocean and tide - a powerful salt-thread of connection’ - ... Read more
Merchants of Doubt
By: Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
Narrated by: Liza Seneca
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
"Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."—Elizabeth Kolbert
Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the... Read more
The Brutish Museums
By: Dan Hicks
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020
'Essential' – Sunday Times
'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books
'A real game-changer'– Economist
Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of... Read more
Justice for Animals
By: Martha C. Nussbaum
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.
Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat... Read more
Woman, Watching
By: Merilyn Simonds
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman—a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds.
Referred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and... Read more
A Journey Into the Abyss
By: Miranda Greenhalgh & Emily Krestovnikoff
Narrated by: Josh Wellington
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A Journey Into the Abyss: Exploring Earth's Deepest Ocean Trench
Introducing "Exploring the Mariana Trench: A Deep-Sea Adventure." Dive into the heart of the ocean, where the pressure is immense and the darkness is all-encompassing:
🌊 Oceanic Odyssey: Journey through the depths of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans, where... Read more
The Earth Prescription
By: Laura Koniver, MD
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A life lived indoors is not a life lived. And yet many of us spend the majority of our days indoors, trapped in our own heads, addicted to our screens and online connections, and feeling more and more disconnected to our own bodies—and the planet—than ever before. Intuitively, we know that even a five-minute walk outdoors can calm us and awaken... Read more
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Ask an Ocean Explorer
By: Jonathan Copley
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
How deep do sharks swim? Have more people been into space then the deep ocean? And what effect are we having on the health of our seas? Ask An Ocean Explorer answers these questions and more!
'Our everyday lives are connected to the deep ocean in ways we seldom realise.'
In this audiobook is everything you need to know about our oceans, explained... Read more
The Treasury of Victorian Poetry
By: Robert Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Christin...
Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Peter Orr, Gwen Watford & Dav...
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. A... Read more
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The Hidden Life of Trees
By: Peter Wohlleben
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of... Read more
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Of Time and Turtles
By: Sy Montgomery
Narrated by: Sy Montgomery
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants—turtles—and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us astonishing new perspectives on time and healing.When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery... Read more
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