Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Good Good Pig

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later... Read more

Garbology

By: Edward Humes

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century.



In Garbology, Edward Humes... Read more

Mind of the Raven

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernd Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world.... Read more

Being a Beast

By: Charles Foster

Narrated by: Charles Foster

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate naturalist explores what it’s really like to be an animal―by living like them

How can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing... Read more

Walking the Nile

By: Levison Wood

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda, where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water, Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile. He followed the river for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations—Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of... Read more

West Mountain Epilogue - Abridged

By: Jay Parini

Narrated by: Jay Parini

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A reading by Jay Parini of thirty-three of his most celebrated poems.

Jay Parini's readings are always an event, but too rare. For the first time, Parini has recorded his best known and most recent poems in an audiobook that welcomes the listener to enter his universe, which revolves around his deep connection to nature and underlines his... Read more

Under the Stars

By: Dan White

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the High Sierra to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil's playground into a source of adventure, relaxation, and renewal.



Whether he's camping nude in cougar country, being attacked by wildlife while "glamping,"... Read more

The Heart of the Wild

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Williams tells the story of her initiation by the living land when she was 7 years old. While taking a school trip she ended up alone, in the dark, in Mount Timpanogos Cave. For a brief but powerful moment she felt the beating heart of the mountain. She says, “For the rest of my life I’ve been trying to retrieve that sacred space I felt inside... Read more

Engineering Eden

By: Jordan Fisher Smith

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The fascinating story of the century-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness as told through the prism of a tragic death at YellowstoneWhen twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness... Read more

What a Fish Knows

By: Jonathan Balcombe

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times BestsellerDo fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to... Read more

The Hour of Land

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Terry Williams

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns... Read more

The Busy Girl’s Guide to Speed Cleaning and Organizing

By: Elizabeth Bolling

Narrated by: Nastasia Marquez

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

You have a busy life, and cleaning your house does not fall very high on your list of priorities. Luckily, that doesn't mean you have to live in an unclean home. It's possible (and easy!) to enjoy a clean, fresh home in just 30 minutes! In The Busy Girl's Guide to Speed Cleaning and Organizing, author and cleaning expert Elizabeth Bolling... Read more

Walking The Himalayas

By: Levison Wood

Narrated by: Levison Wood

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range.

Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV" (The Times UK). Now, following in the footsteps of the great... Read more

The Dragon Behind the Glass

By: Emily Voigt

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man is murdered for his prized pet fish. An Asian tycoon buys a single specimen for $150,000. Meanwhile, a pet detective chases smugglers through the streets of New York. Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator... Read more

One Wild Bird at a Time

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of Northern... Read more

The Beekeeper’s Lament

By: Hannah Nordhaus

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America's foremost migratory beekeepers, and the myriad and mysterious epidemics threatening American honey bee populations. In luminous, razor-sharp prose, Nordhaus explores the vital role that honey bees play in American agribusiness, the maintenance of... Read more

Iron: Essential Element of Life

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Iron is a very important element that is present in the cells of both humans and plants. This is essential for the healthy growth of a person and plants. Ideally, iron is a mineral that carries out various important functions in the human body. This iron allows you to maintain the hemoglobin levels in the blood. In addition, it carries the... Read more

Under a Flaming Sky

By: Daniel James Brown

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Daniel James Brown

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002 burned 350,000 acres in one week, the Hinckley fire... Read more

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

By: Chris Packham

Narrated by: Chris Packham

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a hole in heaven's fence.

An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at... Read more

The Fire Line

By: Fernanda Santos

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“In Fernanda Santos’ expert hands, the story of 19 men and a raging wildfire unfolds as a riveting, pulse-pounding account of an American tragedy; and also as a meditation on manhood, brotherhood and family love. The Fire Line is a great and deeply moving book about courageous men and women.”

- Héctor Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark: The Untold... Read more

Granite Mountain

By: Brendan McDonough

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave.

A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots" -- firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires.

Brendan McDonough was on the verge of... Read more

The Dog Merchants

By: Kim Kavin

Narrated by: Tamara Marston

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin reveals the complex network behind the $11-billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-listen for the benefit of all dogs everywhere.In what promises to become an Omnivore’s Dilemma for dog lovers—breed devotees and adoption advocates alike—The Dog... Read more

The Cabaret of Plants

By: Richard Mabey

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and... Read more

Greenpeace Captain

By: Peter Willcox & Ronald Weiss

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Willcox has been a captain for Greenpeace for over thirty years. He would never call himself a hero, but he is recognized on every ocean and continent for devoting his entire life to saving the planet. He has led the most compelling and dangerous Greenpeace actions to bring international attention to the destruction of our environment.... Read more