Environment & Nature audiobooks

Out of the Woods

By: Luke Turner

Narrated by: Luke Turner

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Out of the Woods is a brave and beautiful book, electrifying on sex and nature, religion and love. No one is writing quite like this.”— Olivia Lang, author of The Lonely CityIn this highly original work of nature writing and memoir, a young man explores his shifting sexual identity and troubled family history against the backdrop of a sprawling... Read more

Super Fly

By: Jonathan Balcombe

Narrated by: Jonathan Balcombe

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History and a New York Times Editors Choice Pick

"After reading Super Fly, you will never take a fly for granted again. Thank you, Jonathan Balcombe, for reminding us of the infinite marvels of everyday creatures." 
—Sy Montgomery, Author of How to Be a Good Creature

From an expert in animal... Read more

Rivers

By: Nick Middleton

Narrated by: John Leistner

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Rivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be a barrier or a highway, it can support trade and sediment, culture and conflict. This Very Short Introduction is a celebration of rivers in all their diversity. Geographer Nick Middleton covers a wide and eclectic range of river-based themes, from physical... Read more

Beautiful Jim Key

By: Mim Eichler Rivas

Narrated by: Mim Eichler Rivas

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The horse Jim was known as Beautiful Jim Key from the moment he stepped into the American spotlight in 1897 at age eight until his death in 1912. This horse was beloved for his remarkable intelligence, cultivated by human kindness and patience. Proclaimed a genius, a leader of his species, the smartest horse who ever lived, with an IQ the... Read more

Animal Rights

By: David DeGrazia

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection... Read more

Finding Sustainability

By: Trent Romer

Narrated by: Rafe Beckley

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the foundation of your family business were threatened by something out of your control? What if the livelihood of 70 employees and their families were at stake, as the license to operate your business became called into question? What if 57 years of family history, grown through generations of hard work and sacrifice, were at risk of... Read more

Earth Repair

By: Leila Darwish

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with valuable, firsthand information from visionaries in the field, Earth Repair empowers communities and individuals to take action and heal contaminated and damaged land. Earth Repair describes a host of powerful grassroots bioremediation techniques, including: Microbial remediation – using microorganisms to break down and bind... Read more

Common Threads

By: Sharon Kallis

Narrated by: Jenny Craig

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to creating community-based art installations using green waste, invasive species and natural materials Disposing of unwanted natural materials can be expensive and time-consuming, or it can present a tremendous opportunity for creating collaborative eco-art. Invasive-species control, green-waste management, urban gardening, and... Read more

Permaculture for the Rest of Us

By: Jenni Blackmore

Narrated by: Dawn Harvey

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Adventures on the road to real-world self-sufficiency Many of us want to increase our self-sufficiency, but few have access to the ideal 5 sunny, gently-sloping acres of rich, loamy, well-drained soil. Jenni Blackmore presents a highly entertaining, personal account of how permaculture can be practiced in adverse conditions, allowing anyone to... Read more

Mensch, Erde! - Abridged

By: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Narrated by: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Wir müssen nicht die Erde retten – sondern uns." Eckart von Hirschhausen Wir leben gesünder und länger als jede Generation vor uns. Und doch sind wir verletzlicher als gedacht: Ein Virus hält uns in Atem und ungebremst schlittern wir in die Klimakrise. Langsam dämmert uns: Gesundheit ist mehr als Pillen und Apparate. Wir Menschen brauchen, um... Read more

Swifts and Us

By: Sarah Gibson

Narrated by: Janine Cooper-Marshall

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing, fly thousands of miles across the world, navigating their way around storms, never lighting on tree, cliff or ground, until they return home with the summer. Sarah Gibson has written a fascinating story of... Read more

Climbing the Walls

By: Kieran Cunningham

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When mountains are your salvation, what keep your mental weather calm and free of storms, how do you cope if they’re out of reach?

After spending a decade restlessly globetrotting in search of a way of life that worked for him, journalist Kieran Cunningham alighted on Sondrio, a small town in Lombardy, Italy. A stone’s throw from the Alps, there... Read more

Stories from the Barn Aisle

By: Sarah Hickner

Narrated by: Sarah Hickner

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A girl’s obsession with all things horses carried her on some epic adventures and landed her in precarious situations. When her first horse came with the same name as the hero of her favorite book, Misty of Chincoteague, it seemed like a match made in Heaven. However, it didn’t take long for Sarah to learn that there is no such thing as a good... Read more

Building Your Permaculture Property

By: Rob Avis, Takota Coen & Michelle Avis

Narrated by: Adam Farnsworth

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It distills the authors' decades of experience as engineers, farmers, educators, and consultants... Read more

The Abundance

By: Annie Dillard

Narrated by: Derek Perkins & Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author herself“A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake... Read more

The Cougar Conundrum

By: Mark Elbroch

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The relationship between humans and mountain lions has always been uneasy. A century ago, mountain lions were vilified as a threat to livestock and hunted to the verge of extinction. Its recovery has led to an unexpected conundrum: Do more mountain lions mean they're a threat to humans and domestic animals? Or, are mountain lions still in need... Read more

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

By: Greta Thunberg

Narrated by: Greta Thunberg

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Time's 2019 Person of the Year

"Greta Thunberg is already one of our planet’s greatest advocates." —Barack Obama

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations 

In August 2018 a... Read more

How To Save Our Planet

By: Mark A. Maslin

Narrated by: Esh Alladi

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

How can we save our planet and survive the 21st century? How can you argue with deniers? How can we create positive change in the midst of the climate crisis?

Professor Mark Maslin has the key facts that we need to protect our future.

Global awareness of climate change is growing rapidly. Science has proven that our... Read more

The Optimist

By: David Coggins

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An “excellent” (The New York Times) modern tribute to an ageless pastime, and a practical guide to the art, philosophy, and rituals of fly fishing, by an expert, lifelong angler.

In The Optimist, David Coggins makes a case for the skills and sensibility of an enduring sport and shares the secrets, frustrations, and triumphs of the great tradition... Read more

Going Off the Grid

By: Gary Collins

Narrated by: Todd Waites

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Is city life fencing you in? Break free of the daily grind with off-the-grid solutions for a simpler, stress-free tomorrow.Are you overworked and overcrowded? Do you dream of dropping off the radar? Do you crave the peace of mind that only nature can provide? Fitness and military intelligence expert Gary Collins has helped thousands of people... Read more

Unsettled

By: Steven E. Koonin

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts."

"Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent."

"Climate change will be an economic disaster."

You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science,  all of these statements are profoundly misleading.

When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other... Read more

Rooted

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world.

In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected.... Read more

The Hummingbirds' Gift

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the “fascinating…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) National Book Award finalist The Soul of an Octopus, a charmingly perfect gem of a book about the most exquisite and extraordinary of winged creatures—hummingbirds.

As one of the most beautiful and intriguing birds found in nature, hummingbirds... Read more

The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by: Julie Fowlis, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Johnny Flynn, Ch...

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a... Read more