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A Crack in the Edge of the World
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces... Read more
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A Crack in the Edge of the World - Abridged
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces... Read more
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Sounds of Nature - Die Hirschbrunft - Abridged
By: Thomas Kommer & Gerhard Lischka
Narrated by: Christian Brückner
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Das etwas andere Hörbuch. Eine überraschende Audio-Dokumentation mit authentischen und zugleich meditativen Naturaufnahmen von gurgelnden, röhrenden und brunftenden Hirschen - einzigartig, spannend und sehr unterhaltsam kommentiert von Christian Brückner. Kult-Charakter! Nicht nur für Hirschforscher, Förster und Zoologen! Holen Sie sich... Read more
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San Francisco Is Burning
By: Dennis Smith
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
At 5:12 a.m. on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by one of the worst earthquakes in history, instantly killing hundreds. The ensuing fires that ravaged the city for days were responsible for the deaths of as many as 3,000 more. In all, 522 blocks and 28,188 buildings were leveled, and some 200,000 people dislocated.
This... Read more
An Enlightened Farmer in Kansas
By: Bryan Welch
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Bryan Welch, the publisher of Mother Earth News, is realistic about the American mindset, and the reluctance of the masses to give up the comforts of consumption in the name of sustainability. Read more
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A Holistic Approach to Global Warming
By: Jamie Henn & May Boeve
Narrated by: Bec Kageyama
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Jamie Henn and Mae Boeve, students at Middlebury College in Vermont, created the Road to Detroit bus tour in 2005 and brought students from all over the United States together to give voice to consumer demand for more fuel-efficient cars. Read more
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Preserving Life On Earth
By: Thomas Lovejoy
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Lovejoy encourages us to stay optimistic with a grounding in global, environmental facts."This really should be about opportunity for American industry, new technologies, new energy, and American ingenuity. [It's a time] to find the solutions rather than being viewed as a problem for the American economy. It is a fact that it is a problem for... Read more
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The Lady and the Panda - Abridged
By: Vicki Croke
Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine... Read more
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The Great Hurricane
By: Cherie Burns
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
On the night of September 20, 1938, the news on the radio was full of Hitler’s pending invasion of Czechoslovakia. In a matter of hours, however, a hurricane of unprecedented force would tear through one of the wealthiest and most populated stretches of coastline in America, obliterating communities from Long Island to Providence, destroying... Read more
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Wolves and Honey
By: Susan Brind Morrow
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Our complex relationship to the natural world is revealed through the unusual lives and deaths of a trapper and a beekeeper.Susan Brind Morrow brings her singular sensibility as a classicist and linguist to this strikingly original reflection on the fine but resilient threads that bind humans to the natural world.Prompted by the emotional loss... Read more
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The Secret Language of Dolphins
By: Patricia St.John
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In her extraordinary work with dolphins, Patricia St.John broke new ground in opening little-known worlds, all in pursuit of what she fiercely believed in: learning the languages of those who have been unreachable. Using what she has discovered from her years of work with dolphins, St.John was able to break through to autistic children. Her... Read more
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An Affair with Africa
By: Alzada Carlisle Kistner
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their eighteen-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four-month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution, trapping the... Read more
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The Devil's Teeth
By: Susan Casey
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones. Journalist Susan... Read more
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The Devil's Teeth - Abridged
By: Susan Casey
Narrated by: Susan Casey
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones.
Journalist Susan... Read more
Isaac Newton
By: James Gleick
Narrated by: Allan Corduner
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of... Read more
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Controlling Your Genetic Blueprint
By: Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Bruce Lipton and other cellular biologists have discovered that our genetic blueprint is not static. While our genes do not change, the way they are expressed may be very much within our control. He tells us, “Cells need the brain to interpret the world and feed back to them what they should be doing to keep this whole system alive and floating.” Read more
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A World Without Oil
By: Richard Heinberg
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Within our lifetimes we will see the peak in worldwide oil production. Soon after, we will be forced to learn to function without fossil fuels. The impact on our culture will be extraordinary - in fact, as Heinberg warns, "Civilization itself may be fundamentally unsustainable." Read more
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Récits d'Ascensions
By: Daniel Grévoz
Narrated by: Bernard Paccot
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Récits d'ascensions racontent trois aventures vécues : – une escalade dramatique dans les Alpes en 1906, racontée par G.W. Young,– une ascension sans retour dans l'Eiger en 1936, relatée par Daniel Grévoz,– la première ascension du mont Blanc en 1786 par J. Balmat et relatée par Alexandre Dumas.Une plongée dans l'univers dramatique et exigeant... Read more
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Contes de la montagne
By: Miguel Torga
Narrated by: Pierre Chaix
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Contes de la montagne proposent une sélection de contes traditionnels servis par la voix de Pierre Chaix et la musique traditionnelle de La Kinkerne: – les fleurs d'Edelweiss,– l'histoire de Jean de la Ramée,– l'histoire du nain du lac de Saint-Paul,– le nigaud et la statue,– la chasse miraculeuse de la nuit de Noël,– la légende de... Read more
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Face Nord
By: Grévoz Daniel
Narrated by: Bernard Paccot
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Cinquante ans que Mathilde se tait, recluse dans ses souvenirs, absente. Jadis, pourtant, ses rires joyeux ont dansé entre les parois qui dominent le refuge d'Argentière. Sur quel désespoir l'élan de sa jeunesse s'est-il brisé ? Sur quelle douleur se tient-elle refermée ? Son destin s'est joué au pied de la face nord des Droites, sombre,... Read more
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Hell or High Water
By: Peter Heller
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet has lured explorers and adventurers since its discovery. Sacred to the Buddhists, the inspiration for Shangri La, the Gorge is as steeped in legend and mystery as any spot on earth. As a river-running challenge, the remote Tsangpo is relentlessly unforgiving, more difficult than any stretch of river ever... Read more
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Navigating Nature Naturally
By: Brenda Peterson
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Brenda Peterson finds her spirituality in the soulfulness, humility, and forgiveness of the natural world. With a voice as gentle as her heart, she shares her first mystical encounter with the spirit of a river, and points the way to a sacredness grounded in the natural world, the wisdom of women, and the love of family. Read more
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Basin and Range
By: John McPhee
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
To geologists, rocks are beautiful, roadcuts are windowpanes, and the earth is alive-a work in progress. The cataclysmic movement that gives birth to mountains and oceans is ongoing and can still be seen at certain places on our planet. One of these is the Basin and Range region centered in Nevada and Utah. In this first book of a Pulitzer... Read more
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On the Wing - Abridged
By: Alan Tennant
Narrated by: Alan Tennant
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon -- an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths.
On the Wing transports us from the windswept flats of the Texas barrier islands -- where the tundra falcons pause during their... Read more
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