Environment & Nature audiobooks

Moments of Doubt and Other Mountaineering Writings

By: David Roberts

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of 20 essays and articles on mountaineering and adventure by David Roberts, selected from the published works of two decades, showcases one of the most highly regarded writers in the field. The articles are composed of three types: Adventures (Roberts' own climbs and outings), Profiles (other adventurers), and Reflections... Read more

Fishing

By: Charissa Felts

Narrated by: J.A. Lydic

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This is it! You arrived at the right place. You are going to be taken through the steps and be shown the tricks of bass fishing. Catching an extensive bass is an excellent accomplishment, and an enjoyable thing to do (a thing you want to take a picture of and post it on the internet, definitely). The masters have the experience. You have the... Read more

Dawn Again

By: Doniga Markegard

Narrated by: Doniga Markegard

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild is a memoir of exploration and survival that will inspired you to better tend to the planet, even if it’s simply tending the soil in your own back yard!By recounting her own wilderness immersion, animal tracking, and farming experiences, [Dawn Again] deftly traces a line from the incredible complexity... Read more

Ask the Experts: The Environment

By: Scientific American

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth book in our Ask the Experts series, The Environment tackles questions about the world around us. In this book, our experts field queries on the weather, natural disasters, natural resources, climate change, and unusual phenomena. Read more

The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks

By: Donald R. Prothero

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings... Read more

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

By: Helen Jukes

Narrated by: Mandy Williams

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive—a year of living dangerously—watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of honeybees and learning an altogether different way of being in the world."As strange, beautiful, and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings as bees in a hive. I loved it."--Helen... Read more

The Bird Way

By: Jennifer Ackerman

Narrated by: Jennifer Ackerman

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think.

“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique... Read more

Deep Roots, Dark Forests

By: Vanessa K. Eccles

Narrated by: Vanessa K. Eccles

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep Roots, Dark Forests explores the unseen, the unnoticed, and the uncared for in our lives. It's the simple everyday things that are the most fascinating—the flowers, the forest, the decaying architecture in an old southern town. It's the silent, quick blooms of an azalea, the big, pure magnolia blossoms, and the wide roots of a live oak that... Read more

Psilocybin Mushrooms

By: Liam Wolfe

Narrated by: Paul Austin

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Psilocybin or magic mushrooms are natural happening and are expended for their hallucinogenic impacts.They belong to a group of drugs or medications known as psychedelics, as a result of the progressions experienced recognition, mind-set, and thought. The key ingredients found in magic mushrooms is psilocybin. At the point when psilocybin is... Read more

The Age of Reptiles: The History and Legacy of the Mesozoic Era and the Dinosaurs

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in the Triassic but especially in the Jurassic period, reptiles came to dominate the oceans, the land and even the skies. There has never been anything else quite like this period in terms of the success of a particular type of creature. For almost two hundred million years, reptiles were the only significant creatures on Earth. They... Read more

Indoor Succulent Care

By: Allen R. Griffin

Narrated by: Christelle Van Tonder

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the only Succulent Beginner's Guide That You Need!Get ready to jumpstart your succulent caring journeyYou'll be fascinated and thrilled about what you can achieve by raising your own succulents. Succulents can provide you with a sense of peace and bring out the best in your interior design. One of the best investments you can make is to... Read more

Virga & Bone

By: Craig Childs

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons—a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the... Read more

The Starship and the Canoe

By: Kenneth Brower

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1978, The Starship and the Canoe is the remarkable story of a father and son: Freeman Dyson is a world-renowned astrophysicist who dreams of exploring the heavens and has designed a spaceship to take him there. His son George, a brilliant high school dropout, lives in a treehouse and is designing a giant kayak to explore... Read more

The Jurassic Period: The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era Most Associated with Dinosaurs

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The early history of our planet covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. The current view of science is that planet Earth is around 4.6 billion years old. The first four billion years... Read more

Deep Sleep Set: 30 Non-Looping Soothing Sounds

By: Patrick Lynen

Narrated by: Jonathan Hayworth

Length: 27 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

THE ULTIMATE DEEP SLEEP SET : Relax, De-stress Or Fall Asleep To The Soothing Sounds Of Nature, Calming Guitar Or Spherical Soundscapes With Deep Theta Impulses Feel tense after a long, stressful day? Do you have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep? Be swept away to a peaceful place with the Deep Sleep Set. Your passport to NATURAL... Read more

American Hemp Farmer

By: Doug Fine

Narrated by: Doug Fine

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The inside story of the world’s most fascinating and lucrative crop from gonzo journalist–turned–hemp farmer Doug Fine. Hemp, the non-psychoactive variant of cannabis (or marijuana) and one of humanity’s oldest plant allies, has quietly become the fastest industry ever to generate a billion dollars of annual revenue in North America. From hemp... Read more

Smoke & Mirrors

By: Gemma Milne

Narrated by: Gemma Milne

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'
David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and... Read more

Tendre vers le zéro déchet

By: Mélissa de La Fontaine

Narrated by: Marie-Josée Forget

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Mélissa de La Fontaine a amorcé un virage zéro déchet après avoir découvert ce mode de vie grâce à l’expérience de l’initiatrice du mouvement, la Franco-Américaine Béa Johnson. Dès lors, elle a décidé de revoir ses habitudes de consommation et de réduire au maximum son empreinte écologique. Son livre, Tendre vers le zéro déchet, est le fruit de... Read more

A Sand County Almanac

By: Aldo Leopold

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. As the forerunner to such important books as Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at... Read more

Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

Narrated by: Tommy Pico

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.



Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a nature... Read more

Rivers of Power

By: Laurence C. Smith

Narrated by: Victor Bevine

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping natural history of the world’s rivers and their ancient, complex relationship withhuman civilizationRivers, more than any road, technology, or political leader, have shaped the course of human civilization. Theyhave opened frontiers, founded cities, settled borders, and fed billions. They promote life, forge peace, grant power,and can... Read more

Our Gigantic Zoo

By: Thomas M. Lekan

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How did the Seregenti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?



In this book, Thomas M. Lekan illuminates the controversial origins of this national park by examining how Europe's greatest wildlife conservationist, Bernhard Grzimek, popularized it as a global destination. In... Read more

Biomimicry

By: Janine M. Benyus

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This ""valuable and entertaining"" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems.Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are... Read more

Footprints

By: David Farrier

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What will the world look like in ten thousand years—or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us?



In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure... Read more