Environment & Nature audiobooks

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to... Read more

The Seashell on the Mountaintop

By: Alan Cutler

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

How could a seashell get into a rock? And how could that rock get to the top of a mountain? The "seashell question" plagues 17th century thinkers who fervently believed the planet was young and the human race supreme. Read more

The Voice of the Poet: Richard Wilbur

By: Richard Wilbur

Narrated by: Richard Wilbur

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the... Read more

All Things Wise and Wonderful

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Christopher Timothy

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Readers adore James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful.

Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of humor, insight, and wisdom, and the basis for the PBS Masterpiece drama.

In the midst of World War II, James is training... Read more

The Lord God Made Them All

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Christopher Timothy

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available as an audio book for the first time, The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories--the basis for the PBS Masterpiece television series, All Creatures Great and Small.

In this repackaged volume, after serving in the... Read more

All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Christopher Timothy

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic multimillion copy bestseller

Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.

When this book was first published, it was merely a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year,... Read more

All Things Bright and Beautiful

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Christopher Timothy

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series and the second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series.

Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the fifty years since his animal stories were first introduced to the world.

All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to... Read more

An Ethiopian Heroine's Story

By: Bogaletch Gebre

Narrated by: Neil Harvey

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this program, Gebre tells the story of her heroic journey from behind the patrician to a Fulbright scholarship, to a triumphant return home to Ethiopia where the lives of girls and women will never be the same. Read more

Last Train to Paradise - Abridged

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.

In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D.... Read more

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt - Abridged

By: Josh Smith & William Nothdurft

Narrated by: Michael C. Hall

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil... Read more

Bioneers Series 3-06: Actual Perils Of Genetically Modified Organisms

By: Elaine Ingham, Michael Pollan & Peter Montague

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Master soil scientist Elaine Ingham describes a genetically modified organism she discovered in her screening work that, if released, could have devastated global plant life. Writer Michael Pollan probes issues from food safety to the evolutionary significance of the power to genetically modify life, and Peter Montague reports on grassroots... Read more

Bioneers Series 3-07: Less Is More : Toward A Zero Discharge Industry

By: Diane Wilson & Jack Matson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

How about creating an industry that emits no poisons into the environment? Direct action eco-heroine Diane Wilson has used civil disobedience to fight such chemical giants as Union Carbide and DuPont. She tried to sink her shrimp boat on a Formosa Plastics toxic effluent pipe and won a zero discharge agreement. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-08: Daughters of Thoreau: Not Too Well Behaved

By: Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson & Terri Swea...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

On his deathbed, Henry David Thoreau said his only regret was that he had been too well behaved. Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson, and Terri Swearingen, three of the most imaginative, inspiring and courageous direct-action heroines of our era share their experiences and show us how courage and commitment can stop mountains from being moved. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-03: Light At The Edge of The World: Reinventing The Poetry of Diversity

By: Wade Davis

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Author/ethnobotanist/anthropologist Wade Davis has been from Borneo to Tibet to Haiti, from the high Arctic to the Andes and Amazon as an explorer of our planet’s wondrous cultural and biological diversity. He has found a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-10: Getting the Real Story: Bypassing Corporate Media

By: Peter Montague, Mark Sommer & Elise Hoeg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The rise of new communications technologies capable of linking us as never before coincides with an unprecedented bid by the corporate media to monopolize the message. How can media be used to catalyze a national and global conversation about what really matters? Read more

Bioneers Series 3-11: Nature As Healer: Restoring Life As Community

By: Anna Carter & T. Allan Comp Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna Marie Carter, the “Seed Lady” of Watts, shares heartful stories of community renewal that have grown from her work building free organic gardens for residents of south central Los Angeles. T. Allen Comp presents his extraordinary work with AMD&ART, a non-profit that has combined public art, environmental improvement and community... Read more

Bioneers Series 3-12: The Wonders of Gaia: Nature is Symbiotic

By: Wade Davis Ph.D., Paul Stamets & Lynn Margulis

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do a garden if you can put the green organism to work for you in your body? This is one of the mind-bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest scientists, fertile cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant... Read more

Bioneers Series 3-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Connected

By: Michael Lerner, Matthew Fox & Joanna Macy, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-01: The Duh Principle: Better Safe Than Sorry

By: Carolyn Raffensperger & Sharyle Patton

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Look before you leap. Better safe than sorry. These simple mottos express the heart of the precautionary principle, which acts as a lens for scientific choices, an insurance policy against our own ignorance. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-02: Energy Security: the Growth of Soft Energy

By: Hunter Lovins & David Katz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The recent energy crisis in California triggered the worst reflexes of many business and political leaders who clamored for more fossil-fuel power plants and fewer environmental limits. With the September 11th attacks has come the increased recognition that how we make and distribute energy is nearly impossible to protect. Read more

Bioneers Series 3-09: Plants and People: Who's Cultivating Whom?

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist for the New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World, takes a fresh perspective on the co-evolution of people and plants. Was the development of agriculture a human triumph or might it have been the great domestication of the human by the grasses? Read more

Bioneers Series 3-04: Greening Medicine: The Mainstreaming of Herbs

By: Tieraona Low Dog, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbalism has finally broken through into mainstream medicine. Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, a physician/herbalist is a pioneer of this new paradigm. She questions modern medicine while practicing it, and emphasizes the special relationship that exists between plants and humans, presenting exciting evidence that validates the traditional use of... Read more

Bioneers Series 3-05: Soil And Soul the Future of Farming

By: Michael Ableman & Joel Salatin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the hidden costs of agribusiness, with its chemical-dependent megafarms? Poor nutrition is one cost, and physical and mental illness, connected to poor nutrition, are on the rise in the United States. Read more

Shark Trouble - Abridged

By: Peter Benchley

Narrated by: Peter Benchley

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drawing on more than three decades of experience writing about sharks and other marine animals, the bestselling author of Jaws combines high adventure with practical information in a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea.

“Shark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous amount... Read more