Environment & Nature audiobooks

Junkyard Planet

By: Adam Minter

Narrated by: William Elsman

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter, read by William Elsman.

When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam... Read more

The Nature of Oaks

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the complex and fascinating inner world of the mighty oak tree with this engaging nature book!

The Nature of Oaks reveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers who collect and store hundreds of acorns for sustenance to the beauty of jewel caterpillars,... Read more

Lookout

By: Trina Moyles

Narrated by: Trina Moyles

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.

While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent... Read more

On Being a Bear

By: Rémy Marion

Narrated by: Sean Sonier

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Jane Goodall and Lawrence Anthony, this up-close, captivating look at bears traces our complex relationship to the animal throughout history.On Being a Bear draws on history, legends, scientific studies, and the author’s thirty years of observing bears around the world to offer a richly detailed biography of these iconic animals,... Read more

A Book of Silence

By: Sara Maitland

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—"[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay" (Independent, UK).



In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and,... Read more

A Most Remarkable Creature

By: Jonathan Meiburg

Narrated by: Jonathan Meiburg

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart, curious, and social, it boggles the mind.”—Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Bird Way

“A fascinating, entertaining, and totally engrossing story.”—David Sibley, author of What It's Like to Be a Bird

An... Read more

Empire of Ants

By: Susanne Foitzik & Olaf Fritsche

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Ants number in the ten quadrillions, and they have been here since the Jurassic era. Inside an anthill, you'll find high drama worthy of a royal court; and between colonies, high-stakes geopolitical intrigue is afoot. Just like us, ants grow crops, raise livestock, tend their young and infirm, and make vaccines. And, just like us, ants have a... Read more

Not on My Watch

By: Alexandra Morton

Narrated by: Katie Ryerson

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
 
Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.

Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first... 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

Rescuing the Planet

By: Tony Hiss

Narrated by: Adam Barr & Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning author of The Experience of Place delivers an "upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast wild spaces for animals to roam" (The Wall Street Journal)—and an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050—thereby saving millions of its species.

Beginning in the vast North... Read more

A World on the Wing

By: Scott Weidensaul

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we've learned of these key migrations is nothing short of extraordinary.



Bird migration entails almost... Read more

Simply Sustainable

By: Lily Cameron

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Break your plastic habit with simple, actionable steps and jumpstart your journey toward a minimal, beautiful, low-waste home.

“Simply Sustainable guides you through the why and how of zero-waste, while emphasizing the importance of finding the sweet spot between sustainability and self-care.”—Julia Watkins, author of Simply Living... Read more

Florapedia

By: Carol Gracie

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful treasury of botanical facts and fancy



Florapedia is an eclectic A–Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries—on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators—this... Read more

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Unabridged)

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Victoria Faith

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991, containing the unabridged text from the original French and offered up into the public domain. It is considered to be the very first science fiction novel ever written, the first novel about the undersea world, and is a classic... Read more

Wildes Paradies

By: Claudia Praxmayer

Narrated by: Demet Fey

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudia Praxmayer und ihr Mann kaufen einen alten Hof im Chiemgau, um auf dem riesigen Grundstück Lebensräume zu schaffen, in denen bedrohte Arten Zuflucht finden. Die Biologin legt Totholzhecken und Terrassenbeete an, lässt Wildblumenwiesen wachsen und Tümpel volllaufen – und überall sprießt das Leben! Igel, Vögel und Fledermäuse ziehen ein,... Read more

Black Beauty (Unabridged)

By: Anna Sewell

Narrated by: Luna Arianna

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was ""Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell."" It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. After... Read more

We Are Nature

By: Ray Mears

Narrated by: Simon Shepherd

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A journey of discovery through our natural world.

Bushcraft and survival legend Ray Mears takes us on his own lifetime's journey through the natural world, into the British countryside and across continents, and shows us how to tune our senses, enhance our experience of nature, and understand our place within it.

Guiding us through practical... Read more

The Nightingale

By: Sam Lee

Narrated by: Sam Lee

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

As featured on The Today Programme
'Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL
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Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale.

Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale... Read more

The Jungle (Unabridged)

By: Upton Sinclair

Narrated by: Daniel Easton

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. Jurgis, the main character of the... Read more

Der Schneeleopard (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Sylvain Tesson

Narrated by: Tom Wlaschiha

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein stilles Werk von ungeheurer Wirkung Sylvain Tesson ist Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Reisender. Gemeinsam mit dem Fotografen Vincent Munier reist er nach Tibet, um sich auf die Suche nach einem der seltensten Tiere dieser Erde zu begeben - dem Schneeleoparden. Werden sie ihn finden? Ungewiss! Auf über 5.000 Metern Höhe, fernab vom Lärm der... Read more

Mallacoota Time

By: Milena Cifali

Narrated by: Milena Cifali

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Highly-regarded creative talent Milena Cifali is an award winning singer-songwriter and poet, who, along with her partner Jim Horvath, lost her home, instruments and beloved parrots in the Mallacoota bushfires on New Year's Eve 2019. Out of adversity, Milena has written a heartfelt book, sharing her personal journey towards recovery, against the... Read more

Beloved Beasts

By: Michelle Nijhuis

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save... Read more

The Loneliest Polar Bear

By: Kale Williams

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“A moving story of abandonment, love, and survival against the odds.”—Dr. Jane Goodall
 
The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own

Six days after giving... Read more

The Water Defenders

By: Robin Broad & John Cavanagh

Narrated by: Ximena Morris

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Duke University Juan Mendez Award

Named one of The Progressive’s “Favorite Books of 2021” and one of the “Best of Books 2021” by Foreign Affairs

The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main... Read more