Environment & Nature audiobooks

Small Wonder - Abridged

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our worldFrom the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small Wonder, a new collection of essays that begins with a parable gleaned... Read more

High Tide in Tucson - Abridged

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times."" — Milwaukee Sentinel""Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend."" —New York Times Book ReviewIn this brilliant essay collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver turns to her favored... Read more

Harvest for Hope - Abridged

By: Jane Goodall, Gary McAvoy & Gail Hudson

Narrated by: Tippi Hedren

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a provocative look into the ways we can positively impact the world by changing our eating habits.

"One of those rare, truly great books that can change the world."-John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution The renowned scientist who... Read more

Teaching Ecological Imagination

By: David Orr

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world on the brink of ecological disaster, David Orr is hopeful that we can still turn the tide if we recognize that the people who will create the sustainable society of the future are sitting in our classrooms today. Read more

Fire - Abridged

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Sebastian Junger

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force;... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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