Environment & Nature audiobooks

Arctic Dreams

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award

This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.

The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North:... Read more

The Secret Wisdom of Nature

By: Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The final book in the Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter WohllebenNature is full of surprises—deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can make it rain—but what are the processes that drive these... Read more

Horizon

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 22 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN

From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western... Read more

The Sakura Obsession

By: Naoko Abe

Narrated by: Ellen Archer & Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible—and improbable—story of how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms from extinction.

Collingwood Ingram—known as “Cherry” for his defining passion—was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Visiting Japan in 1902 and again in 1907, he fell in love with... Read more

Landfill

By: Tim Dee

Narrated by: Tim Dee

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past hundred years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They now live not only on the coasts but in our slipstream following trawlers, barges, and garbage trucks. They are more our contemporaries than most birds, living their wild lives among us in towns and cities. In many ways they live as we do, walking the built-up world... Read more

Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: John York

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Walden is a work by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and to some degree a manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's... Read more

Bienenleben - Vom Glück, Teil der Natur zu sein (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Sarah Wiener

Narrated by: Ulrike Kapfer

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Am Schicksal der Bienen ist all das zu beobachten, was das Beziehungsgeflecht Mensch - Tier - Pflanze ausmacht." Sarah Wiener. Sarah Wiener, Köchin, Nachhaltigkeitsikone, Biobäuerin, Imkerin entführt uns in die faszinierende Welt der Bienen, die ein maßgeblicher Indikator für die Gesundheit unseres Lebensraumes sind. Ihr Credo: Bienenvölker... Read more

Mind Over Clutter

By: Nicola Lewis

Narrated by: Nicola Lewis

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate guide to decluttering your home in a fun, sustainable and meaningful way. Are you drowning in clutter? Do you dread opening your cupboards because of the mess that awaits inside? Are you ready to sort out your house for good and discover a happier, calmer you? If you’ve tried... Read more

The Synthetic Age

By: Christopher J. Preston

Narrated by: Scott Merriman

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species... Read more

Overrun

By: Andrew Reeves

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Politicians, ecologists, and government wildlife officials are fighting a desperate rearguard action to halt the onward reach of Asian Carp, four troublesome fish now within a handful of miles from entering Lake Michigan. From aquaculture farms in Arkansas to the bayous of Louisiana; from marshlands in Indiana to labs in Minnesota; and from the... Read more

Green and Prosperous Land

By: Dieter Helm

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

‘One of the most important books of the decade’ Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature. News about Britain’s wildlife and ecosystems tends to be grim. In Green and Prosperous Land, Oxford economist and Natural Capital Committee chair Dieter... Read more

The Home Place

By: J. Drew Lanham

Narrated by: J. Drew Lanham

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.



Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, listeners meet these... Read more

Walking with Henry

By: Rachel Anne Ridge

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when you think it's the end of your story . . . grace shows up.

Sometimes it arrives as a moment of joy in the middle of despair. Sometimes you find it next to a trusted friend along an old, well-trodden path. And sometimes, grace has fuzzy ears, a bristled mane, and hope for a new start.

Join Rachel Anne Ridge, author of the beloved... Read more

Astronomy For Beginners

By: Sally R. Ball

Narrated by: Adam McCarthy

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Astronomy is inherently more observational rather than an elemental study of science. All measurements are performed at a greater distance from the object of interest, with no control of quantities such as chemical composition, pressure, or temperature. You will also understand the study of the solar system with relation to the gravitational... Read more

There Is No Planet B

By: Mike Berners-Lee

Narrated by: Mike Berners-Lee

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, and plastics—the list of concerns seems endless.But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does... Read more

Burn

By: Albert Bates & Kathleen Draper

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

New Exclusive Content: Author Albert Bates in conversation with Soil Association’s Head of Horticulture Ben Raskin during the 2019 Hawkwood Seed Festival An 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019 How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis In order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how... Read more

The Breath of a Whale

By: Leigh Calvez

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales.



Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures,... Read more

Reptiles

By: T.S. Kemp

Narrated by: Jack de Golia

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For millions of years reptiles have walked, crawled, and slithered over the face of our Earth. From the mighty dinosaurs who dominated the land, the pterosaurs who took to the air, and the marine adapted ichthyosaurs, to the living reptiles today such as the lizards, snakes, crocodiles, and turtles, plus the single species of tuatara in New... Read more

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 Uninhabitable Earth

By: David Wallace-Wells

Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

With a new afterword

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are... Read more

Radical Joy for Hard Times

By: Trebbe Johnson

Narrated by: Laura Copland

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time of uncertainty and devastation--from pandemics to environmental catastrophe--a call to action for finding beauty, creating art, and healing in community.  

When a beloved place is decimated by physical damage, many may hit the donate button or call their congressperson. But award-winning author Trebbe Johnson argues that we need new... Read more

Grundlagen des modernen Weinbaus

By: Klaus Sander & Hans Reiner Schultz

Narrated by: Hans Reiner Schultz

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Inhalt: 01 Die Weinrebe 02 Klimatische Voraussetzungen 03 Weinbauzonen 04 Regionale Identität 05 Lehren aus der Reblauskatastrophe 06 Rebschnitt 07 Laubwandmanagement 08 Blütephase 09 Laubschnitt 10 Pilzkrankheiten 11 Pflanzenschutzmittel 12 Traubenbildung 13 Beerenentwicklung 14 Aromastoffgruppen 15 Traubenverarbeitung 16... Read more

Das Auerhuhn

By: Peter Berthold & Klaus Sander

Narrated by: Peter Berthold

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

01 Tetrao urogallus: Pferd des Waldes 02 Geschlechtsdimorphismus: Hahn und Henne 03 Lebensraum Märchenwald 04 Das Auerhuhn als Schirmart 05 Der Rest vom Schützenfest 06 Ernährung im Winter 07 Die Balz 08 Balztolle Hähne 09 Satelliten-Telemetrie 10 Genetik 11 Infraschall 12 In der Voliere 13 Schutz des Auerhuhns Feldaufnahmen: 14... Read more

The Reluctant Farmer of Whimsey Hill

By: Bradford Smith, Lynn Raven & Nancy Raven Smith

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning, humorous true story of an animal-phobic, city robotics engineer who learns too late that his new bride's dream is to have a farm where she can rescue ex-racehorses. When the newlyweds take a Meyers-Briggs Personality Test for fun, they discover their marriage is doomed. There is only one problem: they took the test after the... Read more