Environment & Nature audiobooks

Mind of the Raven

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernd Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world.... Read more

Walking the Nile

By: Levison Wood

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda, where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water, Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile. He followed the river for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations—Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of... Read more

The Good Good Pig

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later... Read more

Under the Stars

By: Dan White

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the High Sierra to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil's playground into a source of adventure, relaxation, and renewal.



Whether he's camping nude in cougar country, being attacked by wildlife while "glamping,"... Read more

The Dragon Behind the Glass

By: Emily Voigt

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man is murdered for his prized pet fish. An Asian tycoon buys a single specimen for $150,000. Meanwhile, a pet detective chases smugglers through the streets of New York. Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator... Read more

The Horse

By: Wendy Williams

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Horses have a story to tell, one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence, and of partnership with human beings. In The Horse, journalist and equestrienne Wendy Williams brings that story brilliantly to life.



Williams chronicles the 56-million-year journey of horses as she visits with experts around the world, exploring what our biological... Read more

Sex in the Sea

By: Marah J. Hardt

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome whilst holding their breath; full moon sex parties of groupers and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s,... Read more

Pig Tales

By: Barry Estabrook

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller Tomatoland, now explores the dark side of the American pork industry. Drawing on his personal experiences raising pigs as well as his sharp investigative instincts, he covers the range of the human-porcine experience. He embarks on nocturnal feral pig hunts in Texas. He visits farmers who... Read more

The House of Owls

By: Tony Angell

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For a quarter of a century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside the window of their forest home. The journals in which the author recorded his observations, along with the captivating drawings he created, form the heart of this... Read more

The Reason for Flowers

By: Stephen Buchmann

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy ten million flowers a day and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion dollars annually.




Stephen Buchmann takes us along... Read more

Extreme Food

By: Bear Grylls

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

There's no getting away from it; survival expert Bear Grylls has eaten some pretty extreme things in his time—live tarantulas, raw goat testicles, elephant dung, you name it. In a situation when your life depends on it, you need to put your prejudices aside to keep your stomach filled and your strength up.



Whether it's mastering the art of... Read more

Beyond Words

By: Carl Safina

Narrated by: Carl Safina

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, listeners travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling... Read more

Babylon's Ark

By: Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city. Once Anthony entered Iraq, he discovered that hostilities and uncontrolled looting had devastated the zoo and its animals.




Working with members of the zoo staff and a few... Read more

The Last Rhinos

By: Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In The Last Rhinos, Anthony recounts his attempts to save these remarkable... Read more

When Oil Peaked

By: Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Narrated by: Kent Cassella

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In two earlier books, Hubbert's Peak and Beyond Oil, geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil production would continue to follow a bell-shaped curve, with the smoothed-out peak somewhere in the middle of the first decade of this millennium—in keeping with the projections of his former colleague,... Read more

The Whale

By: Philip Hoare

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The whale is the largest, loudest, oldest animal ever to have existed. It is improbable, amazing, and—as anyone who has seen an underwater documentary or visited the display at the American Museum of Natural History
can attest—a powerful source of wonder and delight to millions. The Whale is an extraordinary journey into the world of this... Read more

Animal Magnetism

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Mae Brown's first memory is the sound of a deep, rumbling purr. From the cat that slept in her cradle to the horses, hounds, cats, and chickens who live on her Virginia farm today, Brown has always been surrounded by animals.



Listeners will meet Mickey, a long-haired tiger cat who joined Rita Mae on childhood exploits; Franklin, her... Read more

Dawn Light

By: Diane Ackerman

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn—drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and learned observer of animal and human physiology and behavior, she... Read more

Winter World

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, most animals are adapted to an amazing range of conditions. In Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, biologist, illustrator, and award-winning author Bernd... Read more

Summer World

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

As the snow melts and the spring approaches, the animal kingdom awakens. In Summer World, Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, brings us an up-close and personal view of that awakening and rebirth.



Almost all life on the surface of the earth derives its energy from the sun, either directly through photosynthesis or indirectly... Read more

Cradle to Cradle

By: Michael Braungart & William McDonough

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much... Read more

Leviathan

By: Eric Jay Dolin

Narrated by: James Boles

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales.



"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically... Read more

Puppy's First Steps

By: Nicholas Dodman, Lawrence Lindner & Faculty of ...

Narrated by: James Boles

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Based on cutting-edge research, real day-to-day clinical experience, and unparalleled expertise, the faculty of the Tufts University Cummings School, led by the renowned animal behaviorist Nicholas Dodman, provides the very best information on the health and behavior of puppies. Covering everything from how to pick a puppy, what to feed him, and... Read more

The Promise of the Grand Canyon

By: John F. Ross

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal

"A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature

A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested... Read more