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Virga & Bone
By: Craig Childs
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons—a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the... Read more
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The Starship and the Canoe
By: Kenneth Brower
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1978, The Starship and the Canoe is the remarkable story of a father and son: Freeman Dyson is a world-renowned astrophysicist who dreams of exploring the heavens and has designed a spaceship to take him there. His son George, a brilliant high school dropout, lives in a treehouse and is designing a giant kayak to explore... Read more
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The Jurassic Period: The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era Most Associated with Dinosaurs
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The early history of our planet covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. The current view of science is that planet Earth is around 4.6 billion years old. The first four billion years... Read more
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Deep Sleep Set: 30 Non-Looping Soothing Sounds
By: Patrick Lynen
Narrated by: Jonathan Hayworth
Length: 27 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
THE ULTIMATE DEEP SLEEP SET : Relax, De-stress Or Fall Asleep To The Soothing Sounds Of Nature, Calming Guitar Or Spherical Soundscapes With Deep Theta Impulses Feel tense after a long, stressful day? Do you have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep? Be swept away to a peaceful place with the Deep Sleep Set. Your passport to NATURAL... Read more
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American Hemp Farmer
By: Doug Fine
Narrated by: Doug Fine
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The inside story of the world’s most fascinating and lucrative crop from gonzo journalist–turned–hemp farmer Doug Fine. Hemp, the non-psychoactive variant of cannabis (or marijuana) and one of humanity’s oldest plant allies, has quietly become the fastest industry ever to generate a billion dollars of annual revenue in North America. From hemp... Read more
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Smoke & Mirrors
By: Gemma Milne
Narrated by: Gemma Milne
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'
David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and... Read more
Tendre vers le zéro déchet
By: Mélissa de La Fontaine
Narrated by: Marie-Josée Forget
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Mélissa de La Fontaine a amorcé un virage zéro déchet après avoir découvert ce mode de vie grâce à l’expérience de l’initiatrice du mouvement, la Franco-Américaine Béa Johnson. Dès lors, elle a décidé de revoir ses habitudes de consommation et de réduire au maximum son empreinte écologique. Son livre, Tendre vers le zéro déchet, est le fruit de... Read more
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A Sand County Almanac
By: Aldo Leopold
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. As the forerunner to such important books as Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at... Read more
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Stadt der Nachtigallen - Berlins perfekter Sound
By: David Rothenberg
Narrated by: Eva Mattes & Julian Mehne
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Open Air mit Nachtigall und Klarinette - Der weltbekannte Experimentalmusiker David Rothenberg hat Musik mit Walen und Insekten, mit Wasser und Wind gemacht: Den faszinierendsten Sound hat er jedoch bei den Berliner Nachtigallen gefunden, die dort im Wettkampf mit dem Stadtlärm über sich hinauswachsen. Er setzt sich frühmorgens in die Berliner... Read more
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Rivers of Power
By: Laurence C. Smith
Narrated by: Victor Bevine
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping natural history of the world’s rivers and their ancient, complex relationship withhuman civilizationRivers, more than any road, technology, or political leader, have shaped the course of human civilization. Theyhave opened frontiers, founded cities, settled borders, and fed billions. They promote life, forge peace, grant power,and can... Read more
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Biomimicry
By: Janine M. Benyus
Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This ""valuable and entertaining"" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems.Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are... Read more
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Nature Poem
By: Tommy Pico
Narrated by: Tommy Pico
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.
Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a... Read more
Footprints
By: David Farrier
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
What will the world look like in ten thousand years—or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us?
In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure... Read more
Nature Underfoot
By: John Hainze
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
An informed and heartfelt tribute to commonly unappreciated plants, insects, and other tiny creatures that reconsiders humanity's relationship to nature.
Fruit flies, silverfish, dandelions, and crabgrass are the bane of many people and the target of numerous chemical and physical eradication efforts. In this compelling reassessment of the... Read more
Isaac's Storm
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Richard Davidson
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City
“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review
September 8, 1900,... Read more
Teaming With Microbes
By: Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis
Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web. You’ll discover that healthy... Read more
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Our Gigantic Zoo
By: Thomas M. Lekan
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
How did the Seregenti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?
In this book, Thomas M. Lekan illuminates the controversial origins of this national park by examining how Europe's greatest wildlife conservationist, Bernhard Grzimek, popularized it as a global destination.... Read more
Climate Rebels
By: Ben Lerwill
Narrated by: Prasanna Puwanarajah & Maya Saroya
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
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On the outskirts of the Milky Way, floating slowly through space, there hangs a planet unlike any other. It has oceans, deserts, jungles and mountains. It has life that swims, life that soars and life that swings through the trees. It is a place of dazzling variety and infinite wonder - and it's the only world we've got.... Read more
Our Final Warning
By: Mark Lynas
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse. We are living in a... Read more
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Growing Goats and Girls
By: Rosanne Hodin
Narrated by: Olivia Scarlett-Watts
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
'a delightful and funny memoir of her family's crazy life in the English countryside. Perfect escapist reading for these locked-down times.' - SALMAN RUSHDIE
'A total joy... enchanting, hilarious and vivid... Beautifully written, richly informative...' - LIZ CALDER
'A gem ... A heart-warming memoir of moving to the glorious Cornish countryside and... Read more
Alta California
By: Nick Neely
Narrated by: Tristan Wright
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Nick Neely chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden... Read more
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
By: T. S. Eliot
Narrated by: T. S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Wi...
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri, performed by T.S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Willem Dafoe, Natasha Trethewey, Meghan O'Rourke, Natalie Diaz, Frank Bidart, Joy Harjo, Rosanna Warren, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Tracy K. Smith,... Read more
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Becoming Wild
By: Carl Safina
Narrated by: Carl Safina
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a... Read more
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What Is the Grass
By: Mark Doty
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s bold, perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty—a poet, a New Yorker, and an American—keeps company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and... Read more
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