Environment & Nature audiobooks

Giant Panda (Young Zoologist)

By: Vanessa Hull & Neon Squid

Narrated by: Katharine Chin

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Giant Panda (Young Zoologist).

Head to the mountains of China to study panda bears in this beautiful nonfiction field guide for kids.

You might know that pandas like to snack on bamboo, but there’s so much more to find out about this mysterious... Read more

Honey Bee (Young Zoologist)

By: Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu & Neon Squid

Narrated by: Max Meyers

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Honey Bee (Young Zoologist).

Journey into a beehive to study honey bees in this beautiful nonfiction field guide for kids.

You might know that honey bees dance to let each other know where to find the best flowers, but there’s so much more to learn about... Read more

Koala (Young Zoologist)

By: Chris Daniels & Neon Squid

Narrated by: Torian Brackett

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Koala (Young Zoologist).

Head down under to study koalas in this beautiful nonfiction field guide for kids.

You might know that baby koalas spend time in their mother’s pouches, but there’s so much more to learn about these Australian marsupials! Turn the... Read more

Justice for Animals

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.

Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat... Read more

El origen de las Especies

By: Charles Darwin

Narrated by: Leonel Arias

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Darwin, el precursor de la literatura científica, expuso en El origen de las especies su famosa teoría de la biología evolutiva y la selección natural. Fue una publicación polémica que suscitó discusiones científicas, filosóficas y religiosas; sin embargo, hoy, la teoría moderna de la evolución acepta las tesis sobre la adaptación al... Read more

Semeur d'espoirs

By: Pierre Rabhi

Narrated by: Mathurin Voltz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Né en 1938 en Algérie, Pierre Rabhi est l'un des pionniers de l'agriculture écologique en France, essayiste, agriculteur, romancier, poète et fondateur de nombreuses structures tel que l'association Terre & Humanisme et le Mouvement Colibris. Il transmet son savoir-faire en Afrique et en Europe, prônant l'autonomie alimentaire de chacun.... Read more

Nichts mehr so wie es wAHR!: Gezeiten einer Katastrophe (Ungekürzt)

By: Marco Martin

Narrated by: Marco Martin

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In der Nacht vom 14.07. auf den 15.07.2021 wurde unsere Heimat, unser wunderschönes Ahrtal von einer Naturkatastrophe heimgesucht, die ihres gleichen sucht. Von jetzt auf gleich haben tausende Menschen ihre Heimat, ihr Hab und Gut verloren. Leider mussten auch viel zu viele Menschen diese Katastrophe mit ihrem Leben bezahlen. Die Natur hat uns... Read more

A Letter God Might Have Written

By: Dr. Rowan Williams

Narrated by: Stephen Dalton

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Delightful, unique” This sought-after book by a previous Archbishop of Canterbury is pervaded by the deep insights, poetry and personal experiences of a great poet, thinker, and, above all, human being. Profound and moving while at the same time wholly unstuffy, it is the perfect present for those of all faiths.

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Changing Our System Of Land Ownership

By: Martin Adams

Narrated by: Molly Rowan Leach

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people aspire to become property owners and view real estate investments as an important way to build wealth and security. Mortgages are the norm. But does this system truly serve the well-being of either the economy or the individual? Martin Adams shares a view that profiting from land ownership causes social and cultural decline as well... Read more

Love Notes from the Hollow Tree

By: Jarod K. Anderson

Narrated by: Jarod K. Anderson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist podcast and author of Field Guide to the Haunted Forest) celebrates the natural world with warmth and humor. The poetry and prose in this collection are love letters to impermanence, to our kinship with nature, to our strange ability to conjure meaning. Vivid and approachable,... Read more

Discovery of Less

By: Chris Lovett

Narrated by: Chris Lovett

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Discovery of Less is the true story about one mans poignant and humorous journey of stepping out of the comfort zone of everyday life and letting go. Through his insightful and refreshing storytelling, Chris Lovett shares details of how he found enriching outcomes of a simpler approach to life and work after decluttering, selling off everything... Read more

The Lord God Made Them All

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series All Creatures Great and Small**

"Nicholas Ralph’s readings of Herriot’s stories are as comforting an experience as the show, and even more immersive." - The Houston Chronicle

Now available in unabridged CD format for the first time, The Lord God Made Them All is the... Read more

All Things Wise and Wonderful

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series**

"Add in the narration of Nicholas Ralph, and you have a first-rate audio experience. Ralph plays Herriot in the PBS series, but he does not simply bank on his star power. He narrates the stories with empathy and emotion. His skill with voices really sets this work... Read more

Among Tigers

By: K. Ullas Karanth

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Today ten times more tigers live in captivity than survive in the wild.



For over five decades, K. Ullas Karanth has been engaged in the struggle to bring wild tigers back from the brink in India, their last remaining wild stronghold. He tells the story of the tiger itself—its incredible biology, its critical role in shaping natural ecosystems of... Read more

Cambrian Ocean World

By: John Foster

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 16 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million... Read more

Rhinoceros Giants

By: Donald R. Prothero

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Written for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, this book introduces the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. These massive animals inhabited Asia and Eurasia for more than 14 million years, about 37 to 23 million years ago. They had skulls six feet long, stood twenty-two feet high at the shoulder, and were... Read more

Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

By: Jarod K. Anderson

Narrated by: Jarod K. Anderson

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This poetry collection celebrates the impossible truths of the natural world and the magic that hides in plain sight. Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist podcast) has built a large audience of social media followers and podcast listeners with his strange, vibrant appreciations of nature. Ranging from... Read more

The Primacy of Doubt

By: Tim Palmer

Narrated by: Tim Palmer

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Why does your weather app say “there’s a 10 percent chance of rain” instead of “it will be sunny”? In large part, this is due to the insight of award-winning physicist Tim Palmer, who pioneered the introduction of uncertainty into weather and climate prediction. Now, he wants to apply it to how we study everything else.In The Primacy of Doubt,... Read more

Greenhouse Planet

By: Lewis H. Ziska

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

The carbon dioxide that industrial civilization spews into the atmosphere has dramatic consequences for life on Earth that extend beyond climate change. CO2 levels directly affect plant growth, in turn affecting any kind of life that depends on plants—in other words, everything.



Greenhouse Planet reveals the stakes of increased CO2 for plants,... Read more

Islas de abandono

By: Cal Flyn

Narrated by: Lorena de la Torre

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

hermosa y lírica exploración de lugares donde la naturaleza ?orece en nuestra ausencia. Algunas de las únicas reses verdaderamente asilvestradas del mundo deambulan por una isla abandonada desde hace tiempo en el extremo norte de Escocia. En los terrenos irradiados de Chernóbil ha resurgido una variedad de vida silvestre que no se había visto en... Read more

Orchid Muse

By: Erica Hannickel

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022



A kaleidoscopic journey into the world of nature's most tantalizing flower, and the lives it has inspired.



The epitome of floral beauty, orchids have long fostered works of art, tales of adventure, and scientific discovery. Tenacious plant hunters have traversed continents to collect rare... Read more

Über Schmuck und Stein

By: Volker Schwarz

Narrated by: Volker Schwarz & Klaus Maria Dechant

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Goldschmied und Gemmologe Volker Schwarz entführt Sie auf äußerst vergnügliche Weise für eine knappe Spielfilmlänge in die Welt des Schmucks und der Edelsteine, also in die Welt des völlig Überflüssigen, aber absolut Notwendigen. Erfahren Sie in den folgenden etwa 70 Minuten, warum es Halbedelsteine gar nicht gibt, der Rubin in der Imperial... Read more

The Great Fossil Enigma

By: Simon J. Knell

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 16 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries: "Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed" (Priscum).



Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The search for its identity... Read more

Women Who Invented the Sixties

By: Steve Golin

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Women Who Invented the Sixties tells the story of how four women helped define the 1960s and made a lasting impression for decades to follow.



In 1960, Ella Baker played the key role in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which became an essential organization for students during the civil rights movement and the model... Read more