Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Blue Clerk

By: Dionne Brand

Narrated by: Dionne Brand

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dionne Brand, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection Ossuaries, returns with a startlingly original work about the act of writing itself.

On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages—the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the... Read more

Hypertalks S4 E3

By: Linn Jansson, Erik Granholm, Nitin George & Ku ...

Narrated by: Hyper Island

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna Stenberg and Innocent Mugenga join us for the third episode of HyperTalks Season 4 to discuss the future of startups and what it takes to get your brilliant idea the funding it needs! Keep your ears open, aspiring entrepreneurs! Anna Stenberg is an Angel Investor and Founder of Women Executive Search (WES), an executive search company with... Read more

The Way Home

By: Mark Boyle

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio, or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce.The Way Home is a... Read more

Slime

By: Ruth Kassinger

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Say “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist.



There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Crude... Read more

The Ice at the End of the World

By: Jon Gertner

Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Jon Gertner

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change

“Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The... Read more

Life Finds a Way

By: Andreas Wagner

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science
In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection--instead, "progress" is typically marked... Read more

The Gaia Hypothesis

By: Elissa Rubenstein

Narrated by: Fran Gregory

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The book, The Gaia Hypothesis, is a fascinating eye-opener into the natural philosophy and law guiding our planet yesterday, today, and always. Read more

Fire in the Sky

By: Gordon L. Dillow

Narrated by: Edward Bauer

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This “accessible and always entertaining” (Booklist) combination of history, pop science, and in-depth reporting offers a fascinating account of the asteroids that hit Earth long ago and those streaming toward us now, as well as how prepared we are against asteroid-caused catastrophe.

One of these days, warns Gordon Dillow, the Earth will be hit... Read more

One Kiss or Two?

By: Andy Scott

Narrated by: Rory Barnett

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Every encounter begins with a greeting. Air-kissing, handshakes, high-fives, nose-rubs, cheek-sniffing and foot-kissing, sticking out tongues, floor-spitting, applause, and face-slapping―different cultures have developed innumerable ways of showing pleasure at someone’s arrival. Humans have been greeting each other for thousands of years. It... Read more

Island on Fire

By: Alexandra Witze & Jeff Kanipe

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the eighteenth century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution. Laki is Iceland’s largest volcano—and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history’s great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out... Read more

Dominion

By: Matthew Scully

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 19 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In a crucial passage from the Old Testament, God grants mankind power over animals. But with this privilege comes the grave responsibility to respect life, to treat animals with simple dignity and compassion. Somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong.

In Dominion, we witness the annual convention of Safari Club International, an... Read more

The Gamekeeper at Home

By: Richard Jefferies

Narrated by: John Roland

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic of English nature writing provides an entertaining account of the life of a gamekeeper in southern England during the second half of the nineteenth century. Read more

The World's Lumber Room

By: Selina Gaye

Narrated by: Edith Harson

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This book takes us on a jorney to all around the world and beyond in order to vividly explain the many varieties of dust and refuse - animal, vegetable and mineral - how it is made both by man and by nature, what happens to it, and why we need it. We find that recycling is nothing new: man has been doing it for centuries, and nature has been... Read more

Agronegócio - Abridged

By: Ricardo Garay

Narrated by: Alice Oratio

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este audiolivro foi criado para ajudar você a planejar e desenvolver seu agronegócio independente de tamanho ou segmento. Este guia oferece técnicas, meios e ferramentas para a melhor e mais eficiente prática no gerenciamento de seu negócio. Propõe uma visão sobre como desenvolver uma solução para o agronegócio que pode e deve ser customizada.... Read more

Supernavigators

By: David Barrie

Narrated by: David Barrie

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A globetrotting voyage of discovery celebrating the navigational superpowers of animals—by land, sea, and sky



Animals plainly know where they're going, but how they get there has remained surprisingly mysterious—until now.



In Supernavigators, award-winning author David Barrie catches us up on the cutting-edge science. Here are astounding... Read more

A Season on the Wind

By: Kenn Kaufman

Narrated by: Kenn Kaufman

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment.Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes unnoticed, except in a few places where these small... Read more

To the River

By: Olivia Laing

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore.Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate... Read more

The Lives of Bees

By: Thomas D. Seeley

Narrated by: William Hope

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This captivating audiobook narrated by William Hope reveals why wild honey bees may hold the key to saving the world's managed bee coloniesHumans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley's... Read more

Making Eden

By: David Beerling

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 7 billion people depend on plants for healthy, productive, secure lives, but few of us stop to consider the origin of the plant kingdom that turned the world green and made our lives possible. And as the human population continues to escalate, our survival depends on how we treat the plant kingdom and the soils that sustain it.... Read more

Carving Out a Living on the Land

By: Emmet Van Driesche

Narrated by: Emmet Van Driesche

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

New Exclusive Content: The author in conversation with editors Michael Metivier and Nick Kaye on site at his Christmas tree farm When he first envisioned becoming a farmer, author Emmet Van Driesche never imagined his main crop would be Christmas trees, nor that such a tree farm could be more of a managed forest than the conventional grid of... Read more

Why Are We Here?

By: Bruce Brodie

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the big bang, to the origin and evolution of intelligent life in a search for the meaning of human existence, Why are We Here?, by author Bruce Brodie, offers a look at evolution and the future of life on the planet. Through many years of research and study, Brodie addresses a host of questions: • How did chemistry come to life? • How did... Read more

Skogluft

By: Jorn Viumdal

Narrated by: TBD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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How to Think Like a Fish

By: Jeremy Wade

Narrated by: Jeremy Wade

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The star of the Discovery Channel's River Monsters and author of the bestselling River Monsters shares a meditation on fishing--and life.

In his bestselling first book, Jeremy Wade, the star of the hit TV series River Monsters, memorably recounted his adventures on six continents in pursuit of fish of staggering proportions and terrifying... Read more

The Dreamt Land

By: Mark Arax

Narrated by: Mark Arax

Length: 25 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought

Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood... Read more