Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Sweetness of a Simple Life

By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Narrated by: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of The Global Forest--an international bestseller and a classic upon publication, beloved by readers around the world--gives us her tips and advice for achieving better health and peace of mind, with frugality, simplicity and pleasure not far behind.     

In The Sweetness of a Simple Life, Diana Beresford-Kroeger mixes science with... Read more

The Wonderful World of James Herriot

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Anna Madeley, Nicholas Ralph & Rosie Page

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"This collection gives listeners a peek into Herriot’s life, tracing parallels between his time on rural homesteads and his well-loved tales, and inviting listeners to sit back, relax and reminisce about more peaceful times."—BookPage

This audiobook is read by Nicholas Ralph and Anna Madeley, stars of the PBS Masterpiece television series All... Read more

Succulents

By: Dr. Kit Carlson

Narrated by: Charity Spencer

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive audio guide to succulents—a must-have for any houseplant enthusiast.Succulents is a field guide to 50 varieties of succulents. In this book, you will find profiles detailing each plant’s natural habitat, identifying characteristics, care and keeping tips, common pests and diseases, purchasing notes, and more. Whether you want a... Read more

Global Warming

By: Guy K Mitchell Jr.

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Global Warming: The Great Deception-The Triumph of Dollars and Politics Over Science and Why You Should Care is the definitive work on the subject of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming.
Guy Mitchell, a businessman with the mind of a scientist, takes a holistic approach and combines scientific analysis with an... Read more

Planeta silencioso

By: Dave Goulson

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Una llamada de atención para evitar un inminente desastre ecológico creado por nosotros mismos. «Si perdemos a los insectos, todo se derrumbará», con esta contundente afirmación Dave Goulson advirtió en una entrevista reciente en TheNew York Times sobre el enorme impacto que tendría su desaparición. El científico, que lleva más de treinta años... Read more

La maldición de la nuez moscada

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Joel Valverde

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

El nuevo libro de Amitav Ghosh, una poderosa obra de historia, ensayo, testimonio y polémica, remonta nuestra crisis planetaria contemporánea al descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo y la ruta marítima hacia el Océano Índico. ‘La maldición de la nuez moscada’ sostiene que la dinámica del cambio climático actual hunde sus raíces en un orden geopolítico... Read more

Trout Bum

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.



While most of us fly-fish to escape from daily life, for John Gierach and his friends fly-fishing IS a way of life. They are trout bums. But John Gierach is also an exceptional writer. The essays in Trout... Read more

How Infrastructure Works

By: Deb Chachra

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us

Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic... Read more

Behind the Bears Ears

By: R. E. Burrillo

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

FOREWORD INDIES WINNER, EDITOR'S CHOICE PRIZE NONFICTION



For more than twelve thousand years, the redrock landscape of southeastern Utah has shaped the lives of everyone who calls it home. R. E. Burrillo takes listeners on a journey of discovery through the stories and controversies that make this place so unique, from traces of its earliest... Read more

The Longest Minute

By: Matthew J. Davenport

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of how a seismic shock sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm.At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep.For approximately forty-eight seconds, shock waves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to... Read more

Angel in a Thorn Bush

By: Rob Fynn

Narrated by: Rob Fynn & Kevin Hanssen

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a story of a Marungu, as the white tribe is termed by the Shona, who’s ancestry go back in Africa six generations, brought up in Rhodesia, then left in 1964 at 18 yrs old to join the Queen’s Royal Navy. He was asked to leave when UDI was declared, Ian Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence, when all Rhodesians in the British... Read more

Asilvestrado

By: Isabella Tree

Narrated by: José Luis Espina

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

En Asilvestrado, Isabella Tree cuenta la historia del "experimento Knepp", un proyecto pionero de rewilding en West Sussex que utiliza animales de pastoreo en libertad para crear nuevos hábitats para la fauna. Wilding es, sobre todo, una inspiradora historia de esperanza. Obligados a aceptar que la agricultura intensiva en la pesada arcilla de... Read more

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

By: Carl Zimmer & Jaime Green

Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Shahjehan Khan, Nikki Massoud, ...

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. “What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction.... Read more

Extinctions

By: Michael J. Benton

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This compelling evidence, revealing a series of environmental crises resulting in the near collapse of life on Earth, illuminates our current dilemmas in... Read more

Slow Seasons

By: Rosie Steer

Narrated by: Rosie Steer

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Slow Seasons written and read by Rosie Steer.

Woman's Own Book Club 2023

‘A truly beautiful book. Rosie’s writing makes me want to close my laptop, step outside, and appreciate the magic that each season brings’ Jessica Elliot Dennison

In her late-twenties, feeling utterly overwhelmed by the pace of modern city life, Rosie Steer... Read more

In Our Time: 25 Iconic Poets and Poems in English

By: Melvyn Bragg

Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg & Various

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Melvyn Bragg and guests analyse 25 key poets and literary works, tracing the evolution of poetry over 550 years

'The best programme coming out of the entire corporation these days' Sunday Telegraph

Since its debut in 1998, In Our Time has amassed a dedicated following of more than 2 million listeners. Hosted by Melvyn Bragg, with a... Read more

The Uninhabitable Earth (Adapted for Young Adults)

By: David Wallace-Wells

Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An exploration of the devastating effects of global warming—current and future—adapted for young adults from the #1 New York Times bestseller. This is not only an assessment on how the future will look to those living through it, but also a dire overview and an impassioned and hopeful call to action to change the trajectory while there is still... Read more

Cuestión de olfato

By: Bill Hansson

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Un viaje apasionante por el mundo de los olores Bill Hansson, director del Departamento de Neuroetología Evolutiva del Instituto Max Planck de Ecología Química, nos cuenta que el sentido olfativo es en realidad un sistema de supervivencia con capacidad de traducción química y de intercomunicación (mensajes químicos codificados). Esta traducción... Read more

Uncertain Climes

By: Joseph Giacomelli

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

Uncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergence of American modernity.

Even people who still refuse to accept the reality of human-induced climate change would have to agree that the topic has become inescapable... Read more

The Blue Machine

By: Helen Czerski

Narrated by: Helen Czerski

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A Financial Times Best Science Book of 2023

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"—the physics behind the ocean’s systems—and why it matters.
All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and... Read more

To the Temple of Tranquility...And Step On It!

By: Ed Begley Jr.

Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr.

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr. shares hilarious and poignant stories of his improbable life, focusing on his relationship with his legendary father, adventures with Hollywood icons, the origins of his environmental activism, addiction and recovery, and his lifelong search for wisdom and common ground.   Ed Begley Jr. is... Read more

Imminent Domains

By: Alessandra Naccarato

Narrated by: Helena Marie

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern relationship to nature amidst depictions of landscapes undergoing... Read more

Psilocybin Handbook

By: Andre Silas Chavez

Narrated by: Luke Andreen

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't just take a trip. Go on a journey.Do you crave a deeper understanding of yourself, or feel there is an elusive missing piece? If you are ready to move from curiosity to confident exploration, embark on an inner journey with psilocybin. The Psilocybin Handbook, will show you: how psychedelics influence your brain to bring forth new ideas,... Read more

Sand Stories

By: Kiran Pereira

Narrated by: Kiran Pereira

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

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.The concern is that sand is a non-renewable resource in human timescales and not... Read more