Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Humane Economy

By: Wayne Pacelle

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical roadmap for how we can use the marketplace to promote the welfare of all living creatures, from the renowned animal-rights advocate Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of The Bond.In the... Read more

Trespassing across America

By: Ken Ilgunas

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing across America is both a fascinating account of one man’s remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves—both physically and mentally.It started as a far-fetched idea—to hike the... Read more

The Horse

By: Wendy Williams

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Horses have a story to tell, one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence, and of partnership with human beings. In The Horse, journalist and equestrienne Wendy Williams brings that story brilliantly to life.



Williams chronicles the 56-million-year journey of horses as she visits with experts around the world, exploring what our biological... Read more

Heart of a Lion

By: William Stolzenburg

Narrated by: Mike DelGaudio

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England’s forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the... Read more

The Tree Climber’s Guide

By: Jack Cooke

Narrated by: Jack Cooke

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

‘After I finished this book I alarmed my family by going into the garden and climbing the apple tree.’ – Damian Whitworth, The Times ‘One of the publishing sensations of the year … For anyone who has ever felt a little overwhelmed in a big city, or wanted to step out of the rat race for an hour or two, Jack Cooke will be... Read more

A Guide to Coastal Wildlife

By: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss

Narrated by: Brett Westwood & Phil Gates

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining guide to some of our commonest and most curious coastal wildlife.

Brett Westwood is joined by naturalist Phil Gates in this informative and entertaining guide to a variety of common coastal wildlife. Recorded in early summer along the coast of Northumberland, each programme focuses on a different habitat – rock pools, sandy... Read more

Eruption

By: Steve Olson

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Survival narrative meets scientific, natural, and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster. For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the longquiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared.... Read more

Sex in the Sea

By: Marah J. Hardt

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome whilst holding their breath; full moon sex parties of groupers and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s,... Read more

The Boiling River

By: Andrés Ruzo

Narrated by: Andrés Ruzo

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exciting adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon—where rivers boil and legends come to life.

When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a... Read more

Rejoining The Community Of Nature Through Personal Totems

By: Lupa

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lupa is a strong advocate for connecting with animal or plant totems as allies to enhance our spiritual life and help us reconnect with nature. They can provide a “bridge” between us and the rest of the natural world. She cautions us to understand that totems, whether they be animal, plants, or fungi, are not simple one-dimensional helpers... Read more

The Optimistic Environmentalist

By: David R. Boyd

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial... Read more

Who Is Jane Goodall?

By: Roberta Edwards

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A life in the wild!

Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wanted to study them in their natural habitats. So at age twenty-six, off she went to Africa! Goodall's up-close observations of chimpanzees changed what we know about them and paved the way for many female scientists who came after her. Now her story comes to... Read more

Let There Be Water

By: Seth M. Siegel

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions.The United States government predicts that forty of our fifty states—and 60 percent of the earth’s land surface—will soon face alarming gaps between available water and the growing demand for it. Without action,... Read more

How to Be Alive

By: Colin Beavan

Narrated by: Colin Beavan

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is the book where self-help turns into helping the world—and then turns back into helping yourself find a better life. Fascinating and timely!”—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New PlanetWhat does it take to achieve a successful and satisfying life? Not long ago, the answer seemed as simple as following a... Read more

Italian olive trees are withering from this deadly bacteria

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Salento region in southern Italy is synonymous with its renowned olive groves, some of which are thousands of years old. But a deadly bacteria, which causes trees to wither, is threatening a critical part of Salento's livelihood and very identity. Jeffrey Brown reports. Read more

438 Days

By: Jonathan Franklin

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.

On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed... Read more

The Man Who Listens to Horses

By: Monty Roberts

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Monty Roberts has traveled the world working with difficult horses. He has trained Queen Elizabeth's yearlings, jittery stallions on movie sets, and million-dollar race horses. In each case, he controls the animal without using force or inflicting pain. Monty's father, a traditional horse trainer, had taught his son to dominate a horse in order... Read more

The World According to Anna

By: Jostein Gaarder

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong with Anna; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing.

Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaughter, Nova, in a wasteland peopled by ragged... Read more

Unstoppable

By: Bill Nye

Narrated by: Bill Nye

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future.

In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination of optimism and scientific curiosity, all... Read more

Bread, Wine, Chocolate

By: Simran Sethi

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our... Read more

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

By: Lisa Randall

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life here on Earth.Sixty-six million years ago, an... Read more

Up With The Lark

By: Joan Bomford

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily Telegraph

Joan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She ran away from school whenever she could to help him. As an 8 year-old she was the first person in... Read more

Everest, Revised & Updated Edition

By: Broughton Coburn

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format motion picture producer MacGillivray Freeman Films and comprised an international team of... Read more

Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality

By: Pope Francis

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Linda Korn

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete text of the landmark encyclical letter from Pope Francis that, as Time magazine reported, “rocked the international community”

In the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality, the beloved Pope exhorts the world to combat environmental degradation and its impact on the poor. In a stirring, clarion call that is not merely aimed at... Read more