Environment & Nature audiobooks

HowExpert Guide to Honey Bees & Beekeeping

By: HowExpert & Emily Helton

Narrated by: Robin McAlpine

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

HowExpert Guide to Honey Bees & Beekeeping is a great starter guide for those who are simply interested in honey bees or those who are interested in becoming beekeepers themselves. It describes the science of the honey bee itself, as well as the inner workings of each member and how they work together to survive.The colony, as a whole, can... Read more

Skylarks with Rosie

By: Stephen Moss

Narrated by: Stephen Moss

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

 A bestselling British birder, naturalist, writer and broadcaster leads us on a springtime journey of discovery through daily walks in the area surrounding his home, highlighting the joys of connecting with wildlife and our environment.
As spring arrives, Stephen Moss’s Somerset garden is awash with birdsong: chiffchaffs, wrens, robins and more.... Read more

Cosmos Issue 97

By: The Royal Institution of Australia

Narrated by: Daniel Townsend, Renee Garvin, Daniel Lizotte &...

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Issue 97 of Cosmos, a quarterly science magazine. Produced by The Royal Institution of Australia, Cosmos aims to inspire curiosity in 'The Science of Everything' and make the world of science accessible to everyone. Read more

Heart to Heart

By: Dalai Lama & Patrick McDonnell

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Mutt’s cartoonist and award-winning author Patrick McDonnell comes a powerful and timely gem of a book on how to heal our relationship with the planet and each other.At the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, India, an unusual visitor has arrived. His Holiness interrupts his morning meditation to greet a... Read more

The New Sustainability Advantage

By: Bob Willard

Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The New Sustainability Advantage shows how the benefits of the "triple bottom line" can increase a typical company's profit by at least 51 to 81% within five years, depending on the company's size and industry sector, while avoiding risks that could jeopardize its financial wellbeing. Fully revised and updated, this 10th anniversary edition... Read more

Crossing Paths

By: Rees Hughes & Howard Shapiro

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich & Whitney Dykhouse

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

What's it like to be a trail angel and can romance truly blossom from first meeting to marriage on the Pacific Crest Trail? How do trail names get bestowed and what does it mean when you find yourself roaring back at a mountain lion? How have climate change, technology, and the sheer number of hikers affected life on the PCT?



Find the answers to... Read more

The Witchy Homestead

By: Nikki Van De Car

Narrated by: Yuuki Luna

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Practical Magic comes an essential guide to cultivating magical self-sufficiency and enchanted resilience through spell work, gardening, herbal remedies, and more.

Whether we live on a farm or in a high rise, we can always create a life that is entwined with the natural world. A homestead is not a log cabin or a... Read more

Jellyfish Age Backwards

By: Nicklas Brendborg

Narrated by: Joe Leat

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh​)scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality–and the lessons they hold for us all.  Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless... Read more

Lakes

By: John Richard Saylor

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Lakes might be the most misunderstood bodies of water on earth. And while they may seem commonplace, without lakes our world would never be the same. In this revealing look at these lifegiving treasures, John Richard Saylor shows us just how deep our connection to still waters run.



Lakes is an illuminating tour through the most fascinating... Read more

Horse Brain, Human Brain

By: Janet L. Jones

Narrated by: Helena Harris

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world. Mental abilities—like seeing, learning, fearing, trusting, and focusing—are discussed from both human... Read more

Remnants of Ancient Life

By: Dale E. Greenwalt

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct lifeWe used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago. We were wrong. Remnants of Ancient Life reveals how the new science of... Read more

First Wilderness

By: Sam Keith

Narrated by: Michael Kirby

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

After serving as a US Marine during World War II and attending college on the GI Bill, Sam Keith decided to seek adventure in Alaska as a laborer on the Adak Navy base. There he befriended Dick Proenneke, whose shared love of the outdoors, hard work, and self-reliance quickly bonded an alliance between the two. Together they explored the wilds... Read more

The Silurian Period: The History of the Prehistoric Era When Life Formed on Land

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. The Silurian Age occurred during the mid-Paleozoic, and despite its relative brevity, the era developed some... Read more

The Museum of the Wood Age

By: Max Adams

Narrated by: Max Adams

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood – the material that shaped human history.
As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction... Read more

Save the...Blue Whales

By: Christine Taylor-Butler & Chelsea Clinton

Narrated by: Gilli Messer & Chelsea Clinton

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Blue whales have swum and sprayed their ways into kids' hearts. With this audiobook, readers can become blue whale experts and learn how to save the animals they love. Featuring an introduction from Chelsea Clinton!

Did you know that the tongue of blue whale can weigh as much as an elephant? How about that blue whales’ songs can be louder than... Read more

Save the...Giraffes

By: Anita Sanchez & Chelsea Clinton

Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett & Chelsea Clinton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Giraffes have stretched and munched their ways into kids' hearts. With this audiobook, listeners can become giraffe experts and learn how to save the animals they love. Featuring an introduction from Chelsea Clinton!

Did you know that one well-placed giraffe kick is strong enough to kill a lion? How about that an adult giraffe can eat a hundred... Read more

Save the...Frogs

By: Sarah L. Thomson & Chelsea Clinton

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann & Chelsea Clinton

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Frogs have hopped and croaked their ways into kids' hearts. With this audiobook, listeners can become frog experts and learn how to save the animals they love. Featuring an introduction from Chelsea Clinton!

Did you know that some frogs can leap twenty times the length of their own bodies? How about that the largest frog in the world weighs more... Read more

The Secret Language of Flowers

By: DK

Narrated by: Lesley Dessalles

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the uses and symbolic meanings of flowers over the centuries and across the globe.

Flowers have been depicted as objects of beauty and wonder in countless paintings and poems, exchanged as tokens of love and affection, and displayed as symbols of both celebration and remembrance - "saying it with flowers" is truly part of the human... Read more

Miscellaneous Sonnets

By: William Wordsworth

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wordsworth composed hundreds of sonnets, among which are some of his best-known poems. The sonnet form particularly suited Wordsworth, enabling the poet to encapsulate the beauties of mundane life in language of appealing directness and simplicity.This recording contains 122 poems, ranging across many decades of Wordsworth’s writing career. Read more

The Awesome Doggy Book

By: Success Coach LIZ

Narrated by: Success Coach LIZ

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the creation story of a beautiful interspecies family pack who started out of loneliness and kept going out of love. A young woman who experience the love for dogs first hand, and went on adopting stray puppies and grown ups because the world needs to be a better place. A wonderful story that gives the opportunity to teach a positive... Read more

Rakkaat ja raivostuttavat eläinystävämme

By: Sesse Koivisto

Narrated by: Johanna Kokko

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Hurmaavia tositarinoita ihmisistä, eläimistä ja lajirajat ylittävästä kiintymyksestä. Ihmisen ja eläimen välille voi muodostua ainutlaatuinen ystävyyssuhde. Rakkaat ja tiiviit suhteet koirien ja kissojen kanssa ovat tuttuja, mutta millaista ihmisen ystävyys on leopardin kanssa? Entä gorillan? Tai tilhen? Rakkaat ja raivostuttavat eläinystävämme... Read more

White Pine

By: John Pastor

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

America was built on white pine. From the 1600s through the Civil War and beyond, it was used to build the nation's ships and houses, barns, and bridges. Yet this popularity came at a cost: by the end of the nineteenth century, clear cutting had decimated much of America's white pine forests. In White Pine, ecologist and writer John Pastor takes... Read more

H. sapiens: The Last 12,000 Years

By: Fil Munas

Narrated by: Sean Doctor C Cordry

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A COSMIC CONUNDRUM—This astonishing book follows our ascendancy from just another hominin on the open African savannah to the alpha hegemon on Earth today endangering its entire future. Along the way, humans methodically outwitted their competition with phenomenal efficiency and indifference, to emerge in the modern 21st century as the linchpin... Read more

Justice for Animals

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.

Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat... Read more