Environment & Nature audiobooks

Rendezvous mit einem Oktopus. Extrem schlau und unglaublich empfindsam

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sophie von Kessel

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Acht Arme, drei Herzen und eine Seele! Der heimliche Star der Meere: der Oktopus.  Er kann 1600 Küsse auf einmal verteilen, er kann mit seiner Haut schmecken, Farbe und Form ändern und sich trotz eines Körpergewichts von 45 Kilogramm durch eine apfelsinengroße Öffnung zwängen. Und nicht nur seine körperlichen Superkräfte machen den Achtarmigen... Read more

Die Seele der Tiere - Abridged

By: Konrad Lorenz & Adolf Portmann

Narrated by: Konrad Lorenz & Adolf Portmann

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1 | Konrad Lorenz: Moralanaloges Verhalten geselliger Tiere Sendung: 16.10.1955, SWF Bei Tieren in geselligen Verbänden sind Verhaltensweisen etabliert, die reflektorisch Aggression hemmen und ihrer Funktion nach dem moralischen Verhalten analog sind. Tieren kann jedoch kein Grundcharakter zugeschrieben werden, - der Fuchs als raubgierig und... Read more

The Weather Detective

By: Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.

The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.

In this first-ever English translation of The Weather Detective,... Read more

Too Big to Walk

By: Brian J. Ford

Narrated by: Chris Courtenay

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought. In this meticulous and... Read more

Out of the Clouds

By: Linda Carroll & David Rosner

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen.

In the wake of... Read more

Chosen Country

By: James Pogue

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In Chosen Country, listeners are given an extraordinary inside look at America’s militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.

In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation of the Malheur National... Read more

Diet for a New America

By: John Robbins

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable nineteen percent. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of... Read more

Still Waters

By: Curt Stager

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Lakes are changing rapidly today, not because we are separate from nature but because we are so connected to it. But while many of our effects on the natural world are new, from climate change to nuclear fallout, our connections to it are ancient, as core samples from lake beds reveal. In Still Waters, Curt Stager introduces us to the secret... Read more

Honey Farm Dreaming

By: Anna Featherstone

Narrated by: Rebecca Harper

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in this delightful memoir about a decade of life on a small Australian farm.

This is an audiobook for anyone who enjoys being transported to another life and lifestyle, or who is interested in bees, homesteading, small farming, animals, organic gardening, farmers markets, human nature and the hilarity and hardship that goes... Read more

Animal Lessons

By: Danielle MacKinnon

Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Develop a deeper, more positive relationship with the animals in your life and become a better person using Animal Lessons. All around you, animals are acting as therapists, trainers, mentors, and gurus—if you pay attention. They want to guide you toward the next step in your personal evolution, and this first-of-its-kind book shows you how to... Read more

Fallout

By: Fred Pearce

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An investigation into our complicated 8-decade-long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste.

From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, Fukushima to the growing legacy of lethal radioactive waste, humanity’s struggle to conquer atomic energy is rife with secrecy, deceit, human error, blatant disregard for life,... Read more

Origin Story

By: David Christian

Narrated by: Jamie Jackson

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating history of the universe -- from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future. Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day -- and even into the... Read more

Ruthless Tide

By: Al Roker

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood—the deadliest flood in US history—from New York Times bestselling author, NBC Host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker.May 1889: After a deluge of rainfall—nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours—swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as... Read more

The Man Who Climbs Trees

By: James Aldred

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A professional tree climber encounters gorillas, snakes, spiders, and birds of prey, as well as answers and perspective, hundreds of feet up, all over the world Every child knows the allure of climbing trees. But how many of us get to make a living at it, spending days observing nature from the canopies of stunning forests all around the world?... Read more

Malastrega

By: Eliana Olivotto

Narrated by: Cristina Gianni

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Malastrega: Lo scenario di questa fiaba è il bosco, un mondo tra il fantastico ed il reale dove ogni senso è colpito. L' olfatto è catturato dalla fragranza balsamica dei pini e delle resine, dai piacevoli aromi di erbe e di fiori, dalle essenze preparate dai folletti, segreti abitanti del bosco, dall' erba appena falciata, dal profumo di fieno... Read more

Kings of the Yukon

By: Adam Weymouth

Narrated by: Charlie Anson

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling journey by canoe across Alaska, by critically acclaimed writer Adam Weymouth.

The Yukon river is 2,000 miles long, the longest stretch of free-flowing river in the United States. In this riveting examination of one of the last wild places on earth, Adam Weymouth canoes along the river's length, from Canada's Yukon Territory, through... Read more

Boying Up

By: Mayim Bialik

Narrated by: Mayim Bialik

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Mayim Bialik, Jeopardy! host and star of The Big Bang Theory and author of the #1 bestseller Girling Up, puts her Ph.D. to work to talk to teen boys about the science and pressures of growing up male in today's world. A must-have book for all teenage boys!

Why does my voice crack like that? What should I eat to build muscle? How do I talk to... Read more

The Magic of Tiny Business

By: Sharon Rowe

Narrated by: Sharon Rowe

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is a powerful book—tiny is mighty. Sharon Rowe's simple shift in thinking is a profound idea, precisely what we need to hear.”
—Seth Godin, author of Linchpin

Too many of us feel trapped by work that keeps us from living our purpose. We fantasize about starting our own business, yet we're warned against falling into debt, working eighty... Read more

A Naturalist at Large

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the finest scientists and writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded marvelous, mind-altering (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Bernd Heinrich finds himself at his beloved camp in Maine, plays host to... Read more

This is Planet Earth

By: New Scientist

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This Is Planet Earth is dedicated to the wonders of Planet Earth, the most amazing place in the known Universe.

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.

Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was... Read more

The Fair Chase

By: Philip Dray

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity.

From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America's most sacred-but also most fraught-traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect "soft" urban Americans with nature and to the legacy... Read more

Run the Storm

By: George Michelsen Foy

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it... Read more

Atlas of a Lost World

By: Craig Childs

Narrated by: Craig Childs

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How... Read more

Inconvenient Facts

By: Gregory Wrightstone

Narrated by: Brian Holsopple

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

You have been inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks, and “experts” saying that our climate is changing for the worse and it is our fault. Increases in droughts, heat waves, tornadoes, and poison ivy—to name a few—are all blamed on our “sins of emissions” from burning fossil fuels and increasing carbon dioxide in the... Read more