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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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Spellbinding
- By Milkmoon Mama on 24-02-20
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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- By: Ed Yong
- Narrated by: Ed Yong
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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An Immense World will take us on an insider's tour of the natural world by describing the biology, physics and chemistry animals use to perceive it....
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Absolute tour de force
- By Rory on 14-01-23
By: Ed Yong
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Life on Earth
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, now available as an audiobook for the first time....
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Alec Davis on 05-10-18
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The Book of Wilding
- A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
- By: Isabella Tree
- Narrated by: Isabella Tree
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
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Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell know firsthand how spectacularly nature can bounce back if you give it the chance. The Book of Wilding is a handbook for how we can all help restore nature....
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Just brilliant
- By Sharon Jervis on 09-07-23
By: Isabella Tree
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Regenesis
- Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
- By: George Monbiot
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun....
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A Damaging and dangerous book
- By Dingo on 05-10-22
By: George Monbiot
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Finding the Mother Tree
- Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
- By: Suzanne Simard
- Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees....
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On and on she goes, when she stops....
- By Kindle Customer on 25-09-21
By: Suzanne Simard
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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Spellbinding
- By Milkmoon Mama on 24-02-20
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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- By: Ed Yong
- Narrated by: Ed Yong
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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An Immense World will take us on an insider's tour of the natural world by describing the biology, physics and chemistry animals use to perceive it....
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Absolute tour de force
- By Rory on 14-01-23
By: Ed Yong
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Life on Earth
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, now available as an audiobook for the first time....
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Alec Davis on 05-10-18
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The Book of Wilding
- A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
- By: Isabella Tree
- Narrated by: Isabella Tree
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
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Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell know firsthand how spectacularly nature can bounce back if you give it the chance. The Book of Wilding is a handbook for how we can all help restore nature....
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Just brilliant
- By Sharon Jervis on 09-07-23
By: Isabella Tree
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Regenesis
- Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
- By: George Monbiot
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun....
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A Damaging and dangerous book
- By Dingo on 05-10-22
By: George Monbiot
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Finding the Mother Tree
- Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
- By: Suzanne Simard
- Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees....
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On and on she goes, when she stops....
- By Kindle Customer on 25-09-21
By: Suzanne Simard
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Losing Eden
- Why Our Minds Need the Wild
- By: Lucy Jones
- Narrated by: Lucy Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health....
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Interesting and informative
- By Becca on 25-05-23
By: Lucy Jones
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Gathering Moss
- A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection inviting listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses....
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Beautiful book, inspiring to hear...
- By Debby Keselevsky on 23-11-20
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Living Planet
- The Web of Life on Earth
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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A new fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, Living Planet....
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Extraordinary audiobook
- By Thomas Chen on 21-10-21
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Walden, or Life in the Woods
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days chronicling his near-isolation in the small cabin he built in the woods....
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The One-Straw Revolution
- An Introduction to Natural Farming
- By: Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food....
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astonishing
- By W. Laing on 06-07-22
By: Masanobu Fukuoka, and others
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The Web of Meaning
- Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- By: Jeremy Lent
- Narrated by: Adam Henderson
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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As our civilization careens towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Yet another world is possible.....
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The Patterning Instinct Repeated.
- By Terry Miles on 18-10-21
By: Jeremy Lent
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The Power of Trees
- By: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees comes an illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them....
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Absolutely brilliant, a powerful impactful book
- By Sharon Jervis on 01-06-23
By: Peter Wohlleben
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Eating to Extinction
- The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
- By: Dan Saladino
- Narrated by: Dan Saladino
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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A captivating and unexpected journey through the history of humankind's relationship with food, with an urgent message for our times....
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Great read!
- By Anonymous User on 25-07-23
By: Dan Saladino
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Spillover
- Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
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A gripping, timely audiobook about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations and how we can tackle a global pandemic....
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Highly rated
- By Sigrin on 15-08-20
By: David Quammen
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Origins
- How the Earth Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us? Find out....
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Anthropology meets geography. Fascinating.
- By "Jimmy H" on 23-04-20
By: Lewis Dartnell
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The Inner Life of Animals
- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
- By: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? Find out....
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Too much evolution
- By christofherson on 22-08-18
By: Peter Wohlleben
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Extraordinary Insects
- Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. The ones who run our world.
- By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Lucy Moffatt - translator
- Narrated by: Kristin Milward
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning....
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Not for enthusiasts or biologists
- By Sean on 22-09-20
By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, and others
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The Hidden World
- How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow
- By: Dr. George McGavin
- Narrated by: Dr. George McGavin, David Attenborough, Alison Steadman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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If you are at all interested in life on our planet, then you need to know about insects. They are the most successful group of animals ever to have lived on Earth. Making up three-quarters of all animal species, insects conquered the planet long ago....
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superb format
- By Mabulza Ritchie on 25-04-22
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In Search of One Last Song
- Britain’s Disappearing Birds and the People Trying to Save Them
- By: Patrick Galbraith
- Narrated by: Patrick Galbraith
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Our wild places and wildlife are disappearing at a terrifying rate. This is a story about going in search of the people who are trying to save our birds, as well as confronting the enormity of what losing them would really mean....
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One of the best in the genre
- By Richard Felce on 21-05-23
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- By: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....
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Great content, lumpy narration
- By Plastic on 19-09-23
By: Andrew H. Knoll
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Harmony
- A New Way of Looking at Our World
- By: H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
- Narrated by: H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Long before the phrase 'climate change' was a universal catchphrase, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was studying the impact of industrialization on the environment....
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A wonderful book!
- By balzar on 01-02-11
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Novacene
- The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
- By: James Lovelock
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth....
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Incomparable
- By roger radford on 18-08-19
By: James Lovelock
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Reflections
- What Wildlife Needs and How to Provide It
- By: Dr. Mark Avery
- Narrated by: Simon de Deney
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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In this informed, incisive, and passionate commentary on the state of nature and conservation, Mark Avery reflects on our relationship with the wildlife around us....
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Excellent and thought provoking
- By AA on 22-08-23
By: Dr. Mark Avery
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The Tangled Tree
- A Radical New History of Life
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Our understanding of the ‘tree of life’, with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed. This book is about a new method of telling the story of life on earth....
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Fantastic book, well read
- By Mr. W. R. Francis on 26-07-19
By: David Quammen
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Cornerstones
- Wild Forces That Can Change Our World
- By: Benedict Macdonald
- Narrated by: Joshua Picton
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once supported Britain’s extraordinary natural riches, and could again....
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Overly slow narration but...
- By "realfunfuneral" on 29-03-23
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The Seaweed Revolution
- Uncovering the Secrets of Seaweed and How It Can Save the Planet
- By: Vincent Doumeizel
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Of all the unexploited resources in the world, seaweed is the greatest. Without it, there would be no crustaceans, nor fish. The ocean would be a desert without carbon or oxygen, and half of our atmosphere's oxygen would be gone....
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Wild New World
- The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
- By: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Clark Cornell
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....
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Narration is really really really bad
- By M Field on 21-06-23
By: Dan Flores
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
- By: James Lovelock
- Narrated by: Gary Telles
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In this classic work that continues to inspire its many listeners, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on Earth functions as a single organism....
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Community service
- By D. T. Price on 21-04-18
By: James Lovelock
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Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom
- By: Dr. Patrick Moore
- Narrated by: Amy L. Strayer
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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It dawned on me one day that most of the scare stories in the media today are based on things that are either invisible, like CO2 and radiation, or very remote, like polar bears and coral reefs. Thus, the average person cannot observe and verify the truth of these claims for themselves....
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The choice of narrator is appalling
- By Emily C. on 23-07-21