The Secret Lives of Bats
By: Merlin Tuttle
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.
From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect bats on every continent they inhabit. Enamored of bats... Read more
Mirrors in the Earth
By: Asia Suler
Narrated by: Asia Suler
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A nature therapy session for the soul--encounter the benevolence of the living world through 12 essays on the Earth-healing powers of self-compassion and empathy.
When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the oak woods or water-filled coves, but to the homes within ourselves.
In a series of 12... Read more
On Animals
By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Susan Orlean
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe
Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New... Read more
Ten Birds That Changed the World
By: Stephen Moss
Narrated by: Stephen Moss
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The natural history of humankind, told through our long relationship with birds
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been inspired by them for our music, art, and... Read more
Climate Capitalism
By: Akshat Rathi
Narrated by: Sid Sagar
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. Contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold about the climate emergency, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. From the... Read more
View audiobookCannibalism
By: Bill Schutt
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of... Read more
View audiobookAll We Can Save
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson...
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection,... Read more
What We Sow
By: Jennifer Jewell
Narrated by: Jennifer Jewell
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
An insightful, personal, and timely exploration into the wonderful world of seeds.
In What We Sow, Jennifer Jewell brings readers on an insightful, year-long journey exploring the outsize impact one of nature's smallest manifestations—the simple seed. She examines our skewed notions where "organic" seeds are grown and sourced, reveals how giant... Read more
Life on Earth
By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A new edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth. Winner of Best Non-Fiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019. Shortlisted for Best Audiobook at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018. Shortlisted for Futurebook of... Read more
View audiobookThe Big Year
By: Mark Obmascik
Narrated by: Del Roy
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic in the making -- an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.
In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or “birders,” spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world’s quirkiest contests -- the race... Read more
The Longest Minute
By: Matthew J. Davenport
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 17 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The true story of how a seismic shock sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm.At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep.For approximately forty-eight seconds, shock waves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to... Read more
View audiobookWhat a Mushroom Lives For
By: Michael J. Hathaway
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today's mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as Michael Hathaway shows, the world-making capacities of mushrooms radically challenge this orthodoxy by... Read more
View audiobookThe Sixth Extinction Tenth Anniversary Edition
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The 10th Anniversary Edition of the powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the... Read more
Meteorite
By: Tim Gregory
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Explore the universe and immerse yourself in the story of our solar system, planet, and life through meteorites. "Meteorite is a treasure"--Wall Street Journal
Meteorites have long been seen as portents of fate and messages from the gods, their fiery remains inspiring worship and giving rise to legends that have persisted for millennia. But... Read more
God Is An Octopus
By: Ben Goldsmith
Narrated by: Simon Bubb
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
'Intensely readable, poetic, truthful, wise and wonderful.' STEPHEN FRY
'An extraordinary book.' SUNDAY TIMES
Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm.
In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen-year-old daughter, Iris, in an accident... Read more
Our Kindred Creatures
By: Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid
Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling... Read more
Urwelten
By: Thomas Halliday
Narrated by: Marco Sven Reinbold
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
»Das beste Buch, das ich je über die Geschichte des Lebens auf der Erde gelesen habe.« Tom Holland Tropische Wälder in der Antarktis. Ein Wasserfall von unvorstellbarer Größe, der das trockene Mittelmeerbecken mit Leben füllt. Eine Python, die in der kenianischen Savanne frühe Verwandte des Menschen auf Bäume jagt. Die Vergangenheit ist lebendig... Read more
View audiobookA Complete Guide To British Birds
By: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss
Narrated by: Stephen Moss & Brett Westwood
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
All six of BBC Radio 4's entertaining and practical guides to the birds of Great Britain, their habitats and their sounds
'An absolute joy from start to finish' Jane Anderson, Radio Times
Presenter Brett Westwood joins forces with BAFTA award-winning producer and naturalist Stephen Moss for six delightful and informative series,... Read more
Who Owns England?
By: Guy Shrubsole
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how... Read more
View audiobookSoil
By: Camille T Dungy
Narrated by: Camille T Dungy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle Criticism finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.
In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the... Read more
The Unsettling of America
By: Wendell Berry
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In
it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes
farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from... Read more
Saving Time
By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire
“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago... Read more
Spying on Whales
By: Nick Pyenson
Narrated by: Nick Pyenson
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —Nature
Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present.
Whales are... Read more
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
By: Steve Brusatte
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY." — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs... Read more
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