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If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
By: Justin Gregg
Narrated by: Justin Gregg
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
This funny, "extraordinary and thought-provoking" (The Wall Street Journal) book asks whether we are in fact the superior species. As it turns out, the truth is stranger—and far more interesting—than we have been led to believe.
At first glance, human history is full of remarkable feats of intelligence. We invented writing. Produced incredible... Read more
Saving Ourselves
By: Dana R. Fisher
Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in... Read more
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Life as We Know It
By: Bill Weir
Narrated by: Bill Weir
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning journalist Bill Weir confronts the biggest threats to life as we know it and explores ideas for building a more promising future.Bill Weir has spent decades telling the stories of unique people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of change. As the first Chief Climate Correspondent in network news, he is immersed in the... Read more
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Horse Brain, Human Brain
By: Janet L. Jones
Narrated by: Helena Harris
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world. Mental abilities—like seeing, learning, fearing, trusting, and focusing—are discussed from both human... Read more
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The 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 Great Derangement
By: Amitav Ghosh
Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale... Read more
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The New Fish
By: Simen Saetre & Kjetil Ostli
Narrated by: Erik Madsen
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Eat more fish, the doctors say. But is the salmon you are consuming really healthy?
In the early 1970s, a group of scientists researched how to make more food for the growing population of the world. They looked to the sea. They sampled genes from salmon in 41 Norwegian and Swedish rivers and designed a new salmon that was fatter and faster... Read more
The Three Ages of Water
By: Peter Gleick
Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold—if we act now
From the very creation of the planet billions of years ago to the present day, water has always been central to existence on Earth. And since long before the legendary Great Flood, it has been a... Read more
Every Living Thing
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.
Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki... Read more
Uncultivated
By: Andy Brennan
Narrated by: Brett Barry
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, food is being reconsidered. It’s a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics. We know now that leaving food to government and industry specialists was one of the twentieth century’s greatest mistakes. The question is where do we go from here.
Author Andy Brennan describes uncultivation as a... Read more
The Hidden Life of Trees
By: Peter Wohlleben
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of... Read more
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Lab Girl
By: Hope Jahren
Narrated by: Hope Jahren
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise... Read more
Slug
By: Hollie McNish
Narrated by: Gemma Cairney & Hollie McNish
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Listen to the audiobook for an exclusive interview with Hollie and her good friend, radio presenter Gemma Cairney
Hollie has also included a special poetry reading in memory of her grandmother, and an exclusive preview of poems from her next book
'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG
'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE... Read more
Our Native Bees
By: Paige Embry
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees—an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies—is just as crucial. Our Native Bees is the result of Paige Embry's yearlong quest to learn more about these forgotten, yet fundamental, creatures.
Through interviews with farmers, gardeners,... Read more
The Fossil Hunter
By: Shelley Emling
Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton—of an ichthyosaur—while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family, Mary became a fossil hunter, inspiring the... Read more
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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
Second Nature
By: Nathaniel Rich
Narrated by: John Pirhalla
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From the author of Losing Earth, a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing.
We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and... Read more
Psilocybin Mushrooms
By: Edward Lewis
Narrated by: Ben Herold
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Psilocybin mushrooms are also fondly called shrooms or magic shrooms, and there's a reason they're gaining a lot of popularity these days. They can serve several great uses for mental health and spiritual awakening. In this book, you will learn about the wonderful world of shrooms and how you can grow them yourself. If you take your time to go... Read more
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Go Wild
By: Harriet Noble, Clare Balding, Robert Macfarlane...
Narrated by: Harriet Noble, Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin,...
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
22 BBC radio programmes celebrating the great outdoors, introduced by Harriet Noble
Spending time in nature is good for both our bodies and minds - but with our hectic lives (not to mention the unreliable British weather), it can be hard to get outside as much as we'd like. But fear not: we've selected some of BBC Radio 4's best nature... Read more
Beekeeping
By: Ariel Silva
Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
HIGHLY INTELLIGENT, SOCIAL, AND CRITICAL TO OUR ENVIRONMENT, HONEYBEES ARE REMARKABLE CREATURES. For budding apiarists, this introductory guide invites you into the amazing world of honeybees. Discover the inner workings of the beehive, the properties of honey, the basics of beekeeping, and the joys that come from this meditative hobby,... Read more
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Wild Treasures
By: Hannah Stitfall
Narrated by: Hannah Stitfall
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
'An anarchically charming calendar of Cornwall's wildlife. This is Stitfall in spadefuls; she celebrates the ragged corner of the UK and all its natural treasures. So refreshing!' - Chris Packham
Get up close to Cornwall's wildlife with this magical guide to the year
Hannah Stitfall is a TV presenter and zoologist, who regularly gets up in the... Read more
Curious Species
By: Whitney Barlow Robles
Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to master nature during the so-called Enlightenment—a historical moment when rigid classification pervaded the study of natural history, people traded in people, and imperial avarice wrapped... Read more
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Soil
By: Camille T Dungy
Narrated by: Camille T Dungy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.
In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden... Read more
Sand Talk
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and... Read more
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