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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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A short Review of Nearly Everything
- By Roy on 08-08-05
By: Bill Bryson
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The Treeline
- The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
- By: Ben Rawlence
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Treeline is a spellbinding blend of nature, travel and science writing, deeply researched and beautifully written, underpinned by an urgent environmental message....
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Fascinating and troubling
- By 38Red on 24-02-22
By: Ben Rawlence
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
- The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Now settled into the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and married to Helen the farmer’s daughter, James Herriot thinks he’s finally got himself sorted. But life as a vet in the 1930s was never going to be easy....
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at last
- By MD on 10-12-17
By: James Herriot
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Entangled Life
- How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
- By: Merlin Sheldrake
- Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies....
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Willingly entangled
- By Paul on 17-11-20
By: Merlin Sheldrake
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Jellyfish Age Backwards
- Nature's Secrets to Longevity
- By: Nicklas Brendborg, Elizabeth de Noma - translator
- Narrated by: Joe Leat
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Molecular biologist Nicklas Brendborg takes us on a journey from farthest reaches of the globe to the most cutting-edge research to explore what nature has to teach us about longevity....
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Faultless,
- By Sigrin on 02-12-22
By: Nicklas Brendborg, and others
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- By: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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See the history of human civilization from a new perspective - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - literally from the ground up....
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Absolutely fascinating
- By KH on 20-07-23
By: Ed Conway
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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A short Review of Nearly Everything
- By Roy on 08-08-05
By: Bill Bryson
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The Treeline
- The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
- By: Ben Rawlence
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Treeline is a spellbinding blend of nature, travel and science writing, deeply researched and beautifully written, underpinned by an urgent environmental message....
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Fascinating and troubling
- By 38Red on 24-02-22
By: Ben Rawlence
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
- The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Now settled into the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and married to Helen the farmer’s daughter, James Herriot thinks he’s finally got himself sorted. But life as a vet in the 1930s was never going to be easy....
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at last
- By MD on 10-12-17
By: James Herriot
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Entangled Life
- How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
- By: Merlin Sheldrake
- Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies....
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Willingly entangled
- By Paul on 17-11-20
By: Merlin Sheldrake
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Jellyfish Age Backwards
- Nature's Secrets to Longevity
- By: Nicklas Brendborg, Elizabeth de Noma - translator
- Narrated by: Joe Leat
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Molecular biologist Nicklas Brendborg takes us on a journey from farthest reaches of the globe to the most cutting-edge research to explore what nature has to teach us about longevity....
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Faultless,
- By Sigrin on 02-12-22
By: Nicklas Brendborg, and others
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- By: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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See the history of human civilization from a new perspective - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - literally from the ground up....
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Absolutely fascinating
- By KH on 20-07-23
By: Ed Conway
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Friend for Life
- The Extraordinary Partnership Between Humans and Dogs
- By: Kate Humble
- Narrated by: Kate Humble
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Even if we've never had direct contact with one, we will have seen one, or at the very least, heard one. For those of us who live in the Western world, it is more than likely that one sleeps in our house, possibly even on our bed. I'm talking, of course, of the dog....
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Heart warming
- By Anonymous User on 09-06-23
By: Kate Humble
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Landlines
- By: Raynor Winn
- Narrated by: Raynor Winn
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Follow global best-selling author Raynor Winn's journey across Great Britain exploring our relationship to the land and to each other....
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Disappointing narration
- By Sheana on 26-09-22
By: Raynor Winn
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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
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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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The Hidden Life of Trees
- What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
- By: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known....
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Imperial measures? 🤦🏻♂️
- By Phil Corrigan on 06-09-20
By: Peter Wohlleben
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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 Lost Rainforests of Britain
- By: Guy Shrubsole
- Narrated by: Guy Shrubsole
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England? comes a mesmerising chronicle of our forgotten rainforests—and an inspiring intervention to help restore them to the places they once were....
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Stop, look, listen, and appreciate
- By Dr. N. WOODRUFF on 21-12-22
By: Guy Shrubsole
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All Creatures Great and Small
- The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world....
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Classic, perfect narrator - terrible editing
- By GlosterLass on 14-08-16
By: James Herriot
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David Attenborough - Life on Air
- Memoirs of a Broadcaster
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited....
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Unforgettable David
- By Mark on 20-11-10
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The Simple Life: How I Found Home
- By: Sarah Beeny
- Narrated by: Sarah Beeny
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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In 2019, Sarah and her family upped sticks and moved to the West Country to embark upon a new way of life....
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Very enjoyable
- By K A Day on 03-10-23
By: Sarah Beeny
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How We Fish
- The Love, Life and Joy of the Riverbank
- By: Paul Whitehouse, John Bailey, Bob Mortimer - foreword
- Narrated by: Paul Whitehouse, John Bailey
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing....
By: Paul Whitehouse, and others
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My Family and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Nigel Davenport
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family....
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Animal Anecdotes
- By Kindle Customer on 21-08-07
By: Gerald Durrell
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A Complete Guide to British Birds
- And Their Calls and Songs
- By: Brett Westwood, Stephen Moss
- Narrated by: Stephen Moss, Brett Westwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Presenter Brett Westwood joins forces with BAFTA award-winning producer and naturalist Stephen Moss for six delightful and informative series, introducing us to some of Britain's most popular and best-loved birds....
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Excellent
- By Rob Mann on 16-05-23
By: Brett Westwood, and others
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British Woodland
- How to Explore the Secret World of Our Forests
- By: Ray Mears
- Narrated by: Ray Mears
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobody sees and understands woodland better than Ray Mears. With deep natural history knowledge and practical woodcraft skills, gained over a lifetime of learning from the world's last remaining indigenous peoples, Ray offers a different way to experience our wooded landscapes....
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Totally fascinating
- By M BeeH on 18-05-23
By: Ray Mears
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Wilding
- The Return of Nature to a British Farm
- By: Isabella Tree
- Narrated by: Isabella Tree
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife....
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Favourite Read of 2019
- By Loves Reading on 26-07-19
By: Isabella Tree
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Deep Blue
- My Ocean Journeys
- By: Steve Backshall
- Narrated by: Steve Backshall
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Deep Blue is a book a lifetime in the making: a remarkable blend of memoir, travel, and marine and environmental science that takes us on an unforgettable tour of the many worlds of aquatic life....
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Truly brilliant!
- By robin platt on 27-09-23
By: Steve Backshall
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The Lord God Made Them All
- The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet....
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I loved it
- By Flint on 29-12-17
By: James Herriot
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The Climate Book
- By: Greta Thunberg
- Narrated by: Greta Thunberg, Nicholas Khan, Olivia Forrest, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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Greta Thunberg's speeches shook the world. With The Climate Book, she has created an essential tool for everyone who wants to help save it....
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Most important book in the world
- By Duncan McDonnell on 06-11-22
By: Greta Thunberg
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Blue Machine
- How the Ocean Shapes Our World
- By: Helen Czerski
- Narrated by: Helen Czerski
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet, physicist Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine, examining the messengers, passengers and voyagers that live in it, travel over it, and survive because of it....
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Excellent, well written, extremely interesting
- By ......... on 16-09-23
By: Helen Czerski
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Into Thin Air
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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One of the inspirations for the major motion picture Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley....
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Exceeded expectations
- By Steve S on 08-11-16
By: Jon Krakauer
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Otherlands
- A World in the Making
- By: Thomas Halliday
- Narrated by: Adetomiwa Edun
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In this mesmerizing debut, award-winning palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath-taking up close encounter with worlds that are normally unimaginably distant....
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Fascinating.
- By Playful on 30-07-22
By: Thomas Halliday
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All Things Wise and Wonderful
- The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Evocative, funny and poignant, this is the third volume of memoirs from James Herriot who inspired the television series All Creatures Great and Small....
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Marvellous performance!
- By K on 02-12-22
By: James Herriot
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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
- Unabridged
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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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God Is an Octopus
- Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature
- By: Ben Goldsmith
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Iris, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his Somerset farm....
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Amazing
- By CARYS LOCKWOOD on 23-05-23
By: Ben Goldsmith
New Releases
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Second-Chance Horses
- True Stories of the Horses We Rescue and the Horses Who Rescue Us
- By: Callie Smith Grant
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From miniature donkeys to enormous draft horses, from regal Arabian stallions to sassy Shetland ponies, horses and other equines bring us delight and comfort whenever we encounter them. Even more so, perhaps, when humans and horses are brought together through a rescue. Whether someone has started a rescue ranch on purpose or circumstances align to match up the right horse with the right person, stories of second chances warm our hearts and restore our hope.
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Sand Stories
- Surprising Truths about the Global Sand Crisis and the Quest for Sustainable Solutions
- By: Kiran Pereira
- Narrated by: Kiran Pereira
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Sand is the hidden foundation of our society. In Sand Stories, Kiran Pereira maps out why it is the most consumed commodity on the planet after water. The book examines the impacts of our seemingly insatiable demand for sand on people, wildlife, and our ecosystems.
By: Kiran Pereira
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Vet at the End of the Earth
- Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic
- By: Jonathan Hollins
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hollins
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The role of resident vet in the British Overseas Territories of the Falklands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and Ascension encompasses the complexities of caring for the world’s oldest land animal—a 200-year-old giant tortoise—and MoD mascots at the Falklands airbase; pursuing mystery creatures and invasive microorganisms; relocating herds of reindeer; and rescuing animals in extraordinarily rugged landscapes, from subtropical cloud forests to volcanic cliff faces.
By: Jonathan Hollins
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Emergency Preparedness Beginner's Guide
- Learn Best Practices, Create a Plan, and Take Action Today to Prepare for Uncertain Times
- By: Reine Lewis
- Narrated by: Candace Berry
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Have you been dabbling with the idea of emergency preparedness, but you aren’t sure where to start? If so, Emergency Preparedness Beginner's Guide: Learn Best Practices, Create a Plan, and Take Action Today to Prepare for Uncertain Times is the right book for you. This easy-to-understand guide is packed full of practical ideas to help you jumpstart your personal preparedness journey.
By: Reine Lewis
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A Beginner's Guide to Backyard Beekeeping
- How to Successfully Build a Top Bar Beehive, Maintain a Bee Colony and Harvest Honey
- By: Maia Lawrence
- Narrated by: Marcus Pierce
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you're a seasoned professional, or a beginner, this guide is all you need to successfully build a hive and harvest some delicious honey! Let's embark on this journey, fellow apiarists, because your job and role in this world cannot be understated! We'll begin with a little background about the history of beekeeping, dating back about 10,000 years! From food production to the production of goods, bees have always been invaluable to society. Even today, they play a huge role in crop pollination, and their efforts can help to offset the negative impacts of climate change.
By: Maia Lawrence
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Deep Sea
- 10 Things You Should Know
- By: Jon Copley
- Narrated by: Jon Copley
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In ten brief and informative essays, marine biologist and TV science advisor Professor Jon Copley journeys to one of the most mysterious and fascinating environments on Earth, the deep sea. Discover what makes this unique habitat such a challenging environment, the creatures that call it home and how ocean explorers are able to utilise the latest technology to aid their research and travel miles below the ocean surface.
By: Jon Copley
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Second-Chance Horses
- True Stories of the Horses We Rescue and the Horses Who Rescue Us
- By: Callie Smith Grant
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From miniature donkeys to enormous draft horses, from regal Arabian stallions to sassy Shetland ponies, horses and other equines bring us delight and comfort whenever we encounter them. Even more so, perhaps, when humans and horses are brought together through a rescue. Whether someone has started a rescue ranch on purpose or circumstances align to match up the right horse with the right person, stories of second chances warm our hearts and restore our hope.
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Sand Stories
- Surprising Truths about the Global Sand Crisis and the Quest for Sustainable Solutions
- By: Kiran Pereira
- Narrated by: Kiran Pereira
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Sand is the hidden foundation of our society. In Sand Stories, Kiran Pereira maps out why it is the most consumed commodity on the planet after water. The book examines the impacts of our seemingly insatiable demand for sand on people, wildlife, and our ecosystems.
By: Kiran Pereira
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Vet at the End of the Earth
- Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic
- By: Jonathan Hollins
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hollins
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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The role of resident vet in the British Overseas Territories of the Falklands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and Ascension encompasses the complexities of caring for the world’s oldest land animal—a 200-year-old giant tortoise—and MoD mascots at the Falklands airbase; pursuing mystery creatures and invasive microorganisms; relocating herds of reindeer; and rescuing animals in extraordinarily rugged landscapes, from subtropical cloud forests to volcanic cliff faces.
By: Jonathan Hollins
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Emergency Preparedness Beginner's Guide
- Learn Best Practices, Create a Plan, and Take Action Today to Prepare for Uncertain Times
- By: Reine Lewis
- Narrated by: Candace Berry
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you been dabbling with the idea of emergency preparedness, but you aren’t sure where to start? If so, Emergency Preparedness Beginner's Guide: Learn Best Practices, Create a Plan, and Take Action Today to Prepare for Uncertain Times is the right book for you. This easy-to-understand guide is packed full of practical ideas to help you jumpstart your personal preparedness journey.
By: Reine Lewis
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A Beginner's Guide to Backyard Beekeeping
- How to Successfully Build a Top Bar Beehive, Maintain a Bee Colony and Harvest Honey
- By: Maia Lawrence
- Narrated by: Marcus Pierce
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you're a seasoned professional, or a beginner, this guide is all you need to successfully build a hive and harvest some delicious honey! Let's embark on this journey, fellow apiarists, because your job and role in this world cannot be understated! We'll begin with a little background about the history of beekeeping, dating back about 10,000 years! From food production to the production of goods, bees have always been invaluable to society. Even today, they play a huge role in crop pollination, and their efforts can help to offset the negative impacts of climate change.
By: Maia Lawrence
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Deep Sea
- 10 Things You Should Know
- By: Jon Copley
- Narrated by: Jon Copley
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In ten brief and informative essays, marine biologist and TV science advisor Professor Jon Copley journeys to one of the most mysterious and fascinating environments on Earth, the deep sea. Discover what makes this unique habitat such a challenging environment, the creatures that call it home and how ocean explorers are able to utilise the latest technology to aid their research and travel miles below the ocean surface.
By: Jon Copley
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Trees
- 10 Things You Should Know
- By: Carolyn Fry
- Narrated by: Natalie Pela
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn Fry takes us on an awe-inspiring journey of the Earth's lungs. From what makes a plant a tree and the incredible impact of forests, to how trees are under attack and what we can do to save them, this book will enthral and inform on the monumental power of the humble tree. Trees: 10 Things You Should Know is an essential introduction to why trees are so important, and why our lives depend on them!
By: Carolyn Fry
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The Archaeopteryx
- The History and Mystery Surrounding the Flying Dinosaur Genus
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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The Mesozoic Era, which lasted from about 252 to 66 million years ago, is divided into three periods, the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. During this era, one type of life came to dominate the planet more completely and for a longer period than had been seen before or since; this was the Age of Reptiles. Beginning in the Triassic but especially in the Jurassic period, reptiles came to dominate the oceans, the land and even the skies.
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The End of Eden
- Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
- By: Adam Welz
- Narrated by: Jason Keller
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The stories we usually tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising sea levels. But the most powerful impacts are being and will be felt by the natural world and its myriad species, which are already in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Rising temperatures are fracturing ecosystems that took millions of years to evolve, disrupting the life forms they sustain--and in many cases driving them towards extinction. The natural Eden that humanity inherited is quickly slipping away.
By: Adam Welz
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Don't Trip!
- A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Foraging for Mushrooms the Safe Way
- By: Anthony Barrett
- Narrated by: Helpful Matthew
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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Discover the secrets of safe and fun mushroom foraging - and rekindle your love for nature in a few easy steps. Do you wish to experience the thrill of searching and picking your own food in breathtaking locations in your city or around the world? Are all those mushroom-poisoning stories keeping you from pursuing these amazing treasures? Foraging is a rewarding way to restore inner peace and reconnect with nature, as well as an empowering way to become self-sufficient.
By: Anthony Barrett
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Reconnection
- Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature
- By: Miles Richardson
- Narrated by: Barry Clayton
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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How did our relationship with nature become broken, why does it matter, and how can we fix it? From a past in which we were embedded in the natural world, revolutions in farming, science, and industry have seen the human bond with nature eroded, with the promise of prosperity offering happiness and meaning in life.
By: Miles Richardson
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Deep Blue
- My Ocean Journeys
- By: Steve Backshall
- Narrated by: Steve Backshall
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Steve Backshall was nine years old the first time he saw a shark, while on holiday with his family in Malaysia. It was the beginning of a life-long fascination with these 'lords of the sea', and the oceanic life around them. His career as one of the world's most popular naturalists and explorers has taken him to countless underwater places, many never before seen by others. And he's also been witness to the startling decline in fortune of our oceans' wild inhabitants over the past fifty years. Deep Blue takes us on an unforgettable tour of the many worlds of aquatic life.
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Truly brilliant!
- By robin platt on 27-09-23
By: Steve Backshall
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At the Mercy of the Sea
- The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane
- By: John Kretschmer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A "normal" Caribbean hurricane travels from east to west, but Lenny was anything but normal. Spawned south of Cuba in 1999, this late-season storm defied all predictions by moving steadily east toward the Leeward Islands. Eventually building almost to Category 5 strength, Lenny squatted for two days between the Virgin Islands and St. Martin, whipping the ocean with 155 mile-per-hour winds and sixty-foot seas.
By: John Kretschmer
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What We Sow
- On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds
- By: Jennifer Jewell
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jewell
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Jennifer Jewell brings listeners on an insightful year-long journey exploring the outsize impact one of nature's smallest manifestations—the simple seed. She examines our skewed notions where "organic" seeds are grown and sourced, reveals how giant multinational agribusiness has refined and patented the genomes of seeds we rely on for staples like corn and soy, and highlights the efforts of activists working to regain legal access to heirloom seeds that were stolen from Indigenous peoples and people of color.
By: Jennifer Jewell
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Elemental
- How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future
- By: Stephen Porder
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future. Taking listeners from the deep geologic past to our current era of human dominance, Stephen Porder focuses on five of life’s essential elements—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus.
By: Stephen Porder
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The Poacher's Nightmare
- Stories of an Undercover Game Warden
- By: Kennie Prince, James L. Cummins - editor, Alfred Nichols - foreword
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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The Poacher's Nightmare: Stories of an Undercover Game Warden contains dozens of hair-raising accounts of covert wildlife operations, often spanning years, requiring ingenious planning, complicated secrecy, and deft coordination.
By: Kennie Prince, and others
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Killing the Shepherd
- Beyond the Film
- By: Tom Opre
- Narrated by: Tom Opre
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Filmmaker Tom Opre dedicated over three years to documenting the lives of a remote community in Zambia led by a woman chief who dared to break the bonds of poverty by waging war on wildlife poaching.
By: Tom Opre
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Energize Your Finance
- Making Smart Energy Choices for a Greener Future
- By: Matthew Finley
- Narrated by: Matthew Finley, Hailey Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Unleash the power within your wallet and the planet! Take charge of your financial destiny by harnessing the untapped potential of your energy choices. Slash your energy bills and watch your savings soar to new heights without sacrificing comfort or convenience. Become an eco-warrior as you embark on an action-packed journey towards a sustainable, greener tomorrow.
By: Matthew Finley