Environment & Nature audiobooks

Our Wild Calling

By: Richard Louv

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Richard Louv has done it again. A remarkable book that will help everyone break away from their fixed gaze at the screens that dominate our lives and remember instead that we are animals in a world of animals." -Bill McKibben, author of Falter Richard Louv's landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect... Read more

The Adventures of a Curious Cat

By: Curious Zelda

Narrated by: Georgia Maguire

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

'Curiosity is more than a desire to discover. It's a lifestyle, and a purrvilege. It's hours of observing a fly on the wall. It's entering the sock drawer just before it closes. It's sniffing the lampshade one more time . . .'

Such is the wisdom of Curious Zelda: social media star, agony aunt, yoga teacher, cat. In The Adventures of a Curious Cat... Read more

Love, Sex & Mushrooms

By: Cardy Raper

Narrated by: Linda McGinnis

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

When a young girl, Cardy Raper told her mother, “When I grow up I want to be a scientist and make grand discoveries!” Her mother responded, “You could become a nurse.” Science was a man’s world then. Cardy refused to take “no” for an answer.   Her dream seemed attainable when she met her mentor, Professor John “Red” Raper at the University of... Read more

Giants of the Monsoon Forest

By: Jacob Shell

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A journey through the hidden world of elephants and their riders.
High in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world’s last
stands of mature wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with
elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly)
under cover of... Read more

Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers

By: Jessica Wang

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the bone-chilling cry of "Mad dog!" possessed the power to upend the ordinary routines and rhythms of urban life. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but... Read more

Peregrine Spring

By: Nancy Cowan

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan’s memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she’s learned from her birds. From retrieving her falcon from the local police “lock... Read more

Fungipedia

By: Lawrence Millman

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terrence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings.



Fungipedia presents a delightful A–Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries—on topics as varied as Alice in Wonderland, chestnut blight, medicinal mushrooms, poisonings, Santa Claus, and waxy caps—this collection... Read more

Our Symphony with Animals

By: Aysha Akhtar

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A leader in the fields of animal ethics and neurology, Dr. Aysha Akhtar examines the rich human-animal connection and how interspecies empathy enriches our well-being.Deftly combining medicine, social history, and personal experience, Our Symphony with Animals is the first book by a physician to show how deeply the well-being of humans and... Read more

Forest Explorer

By: Brian Herald

Narrated by: Susan Spaulding

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

AN ODE TO EXPLORING OUTSIDE!Join the adventure of siblings Nino and Tenna. From the imagination of an actual preschooler!While on a walk in the woods, Nino, a thoughtful and curious boy, explores the sights, sounds, and scents of nature. He spots insects, he hears critters, he smells flowers and...smoke from a fire?? This story offers an... Read more

The Eight Master Lessons of Nature

By: Gary Ferguson

Narrated by: Gary Ferguson

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world to live a better, more fulfilling life
 
Looking around at the world today—a world of skyscrapers, super highways, melting ice caps, and rampant deforestation—it is easy to feel that humanity has actively severed its ties... Read more

The Lion Tracker's Guide To Life

By: Boyd Varty

Narrated by: Boyd Varty

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Somewhere deep inside, you know what your gift, purpose, and mission are. Boyd Varty, a lion tracker and life coach, reveals how the wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize these essential ingredients in a meaningful life.

Know how to navigate, don’t worry about the destination, and stay alert. These are just a few... Read more

The Hidden World of the Fox

By: Adele Brand

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ecologist Adele Brand has devoted her life to understanding the fabled yet enigmatic fox. Now she reveals their secrets in this extraordinary portrait of our most remarkable wild neighbors.
The fox. For thousands of years myth and folklore have celebrated its cunning intelligence. Today the red fox is the nature’s most populous carnivore, its... Read more

Ghostland

By: Edward Parnell

Narrated by: Sam Woolf

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare ‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his... Read more

Teaching the Trees

By: Joan Maloof

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of natural-history essays, biologist Joan Maloof embarks on a series of lively, fact-filled expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Through Maloof's engaging, conversational style, each essay offers a lesson in stewardship as it explores the interwoven connections between a tree species and the animals and... Read more

The Rise of Wolf 8

By: Rick McIntyre

Narrated by: Geoff Sugiyama

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves.” —Washington Post“[The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings.” —Marc Bekoff, Psychology TodayYellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild... Read more

Building a Better World in Your Backyard

By: Paul Wheaton & Shawn Klassen-Koop

Narrated by: Michael Hatak

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Luxuriant Environmentalism Make a huge, positive, global difference from your own home! Prioritize comfort over sacrifice while saving thousands of dollars. Explore dozens of solutions and their impacts on carbon footprint, petroleum footprint, toxic footprint, and other environmental issues.If 20% of the population implemented half the... Read more

Seven Worlds One Planet

By: Jonny Keeling & Scott Alexander

Narrated by: Jonny Keeling & Scott Alexander

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Welcome home. A place 200 million years in the making.

Long ago, our planet had only one gigantic land mass. Then something monumental happened. That supercontinent ruptured and seven different worlds were born.

Each of those worlds - or continents - evolved, and continues to evolve, its own way of life. From the jungle... Read more

Green Growth That Works

By: Lisa Ann Mandle, Zhiyun Ouyang, James Salzman &...

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Rapid economic development has been a boon to human well-being. It has lifted millions out of poverty, raised standards of living, and increased life expectancies. But economic development comes at a significant cost to natural capital—the fertile soils, forests, coastal marshes, farmland—that support all life on earth, including our own.

Green... Read more

50 Dinosaur Tales

By: Sabrina Ricci & Garret Kruger

Narrated by: Sabrina Ricci & Garret Kruger

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Gualicho takes a bite out of the ornithopod's back as it runs away from her, causing it to stumble and fall. She jumps on top of the body and rips open its neck with her teeth. The ornithopod becomes still and limp.Satisfied, Gualicho begins to feast. But, after only two bites, she senses something is wrong. She lifts her head and sees... Read more

Lost Feast

By: Lenore Newman

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods.



When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of... Read more

Exposure

By: Robert Bilott

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist” (The New York Times Book Review)—the incredible true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous chemical PFOA, uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in history—affecting virtually every person on the... Read more

El mundo que nos dejáis

By: Lucas Barrero

Narrated by: Lucas Barrero

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Durante años, cuando se hablaba del terrible impacto que tendría el cambio climático, se solía mencionar a las generaciones futuras. Pues bien, estas ya están aquí y han nacido en un planeta al borde del colapso. Por eso, cada vez más estudiantes de todo el mundo toman conciencia del problema y se suman a la huelga del movimiento Fridays for... Read more

El planeta inhóspito

By: David Wallace-Wells

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Una vez hemos reconocido que nuestro mundo llega a su fin, ¿qué podemos hacer? Este sobrecogedor relato de cómo estamos precipitando el planeta hacia su Armagedón nos descubre amenazas inimaginables hasta en nuestras peores pesadillas. Es peor, mucho peor, de lo que imaginas. Hoy, la subida del nivel del mar es una causa de alarma generalizada... Read more

What Do Animals Think and Feel?

By: Karsten Brensing

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In What Do Animals Think and Feel?, the biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that animals, by any reasonable assessment, have developed the sophisticated systems of social organization and behaviour that human beings call 'culture'. Dolphins call one another by name and orcas inhabit a... Read more