Environment & Nature audiobooks

Windswept

By: Annabel Abbs

Narrated by: Fenella Fudge

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Annabel Abbs's Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a beautifully written meditation on connecting with the outdoors through the simple act of walking. In captivating and elegant prose, Abbs follows in the footsteps of women who boldly reclaimed wild landscapes for themselves, including Georgia O’Keeffe in the empty plains of... Read more

Ice Rivers

By: Jemma Wadham

Narrated by: Jemma Wadham

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Jemma Wadham gives a passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers—and what their fate means for our shared future The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth's land surface are today in grave peril. High in the Alps, Andes, and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are... Read more

Dinosaurs

By: Dean Lomax

Narrated by: Dean Lomax

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

'A warp-speed tour of dinosaurs, with an expert guide' PROF. STEVE BRUSATTE, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs

'A fun, speedy read for grown-ups who love dinosaurs - a great way to get into the subject' PROF. MICHAEL BENTON, author of The Dinosaurs Rediscovered

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Travel back to the prehistoric world and discover the most... Read more

Northern Lights

By: Tom Kerss, Royal Observatory Greenwich & Collin...

Narrated by: Tom Kerss

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn about the incomparable beauty of the Northern Lights with this accessible guide for aspiring astronomers and seasoned night sky observers. Covers the essential equipment needed for observation and photography. Tom Kerss covers the cultural and scientific context for auroras, and offers a comprehensive guide to... Read more

Big Veg

By: Gerald Stratford

Narrated by: Gerald Stratford

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to grow big veg with Gerald Stratford, the gardening grandad loved by over a quarter of a million fans on Twitter.

"I am very grateful for all the interest my wonderful friends and followers have taken in my gardening. Now, I hope this book gives you the motivation you need to get out in the garden. Cheers!"
- GERALD

Gerald's book is... Read more

Do Earth – Healing Strategies for Humankind

By: Tamsin Omond

Narrated by: Tamsin Omond

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

We know there's a climate emergency but what does that mean we should do? What does a 'better future' look like and how do we get there?

Having spent over a decade on the frontlines of climate activism - organising, campaigning, and holding the powerful to account - Tamsin Omond discovered first-hand that this crisis is too big for one group of... Read more

Regeneration

By: Andrew Painting

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring burns and frozen lochs could be a place where environmental conservation and Highland field sports would exist in harmony. The only... Read more

Vanavasi -వనవాసి

By: Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay & బిభూతిభూషన్ బంధోప...

Narrated by: Bhogindranath Parupalli

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanavasi, a book penned by Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, was translated by Soorampudi Seetharam in Telugu. The book narrates his experiences on his long and arduous years in northern Bihar in the forests. The narrator chronicles in visionary prose the tale of destruction and dispossession that goes into bending nature to man's... Read more

The Social Instinct

By: Nichola Raihani

Narrated by: Nichola Raihani

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival.

"Enriching" —Publisher's Weekly

Cooperation is the means by which life arose in... Read more

Design a Healthy Home

By: Oliver Heath

Narrated by: Oliver Heath

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Simple, practical advice on how to design your home for health and happiness. Create a healthy, happy home with 100 design ideas to support your physical and mental wellbeing.

Using the latest evidence and research in wellbeing and Biophilic Design, learn how to transform every space in your home to create a restorative and nurturing environment.... Read more

Our Sunburnt Country

By: Anika Molesworth

Narrated by: Anika Molesworth

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Anika Molesworth fell in love with her family's farm, a sheep station near Broken Hill, at an early age. She formed a bond with the land as though it were a member of her family. When the Millennium Drought hit, though, bringing with it heatwaves and duststorms, the future she'd always imagined for herself began to seem impossible.

As she learned... Read more

Bees and Their Keepers

By: Lotte Möller

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The study of bees has often been considered a divine occupation, as the creature’s attention to detail and purpose is so special and the honey they produce, almost magical. In this compelling cultural history that moves beautifully through the beekeeper’s year, Swedish beekeeper and writer Lotte Möller shares her understanding of bees and bee... Read more

Noch haben wir die Wahl - Ein Gespräch über Freiheit, Ökologie und den Konflikt der Generationen (Ungekürzt)

By: Luisa Neubauer & Bernd Ulrich

Narrated by: Luisa Neubauer & Bernd Ulrich

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Deine Normalität ist meine Krise - wir müssen reden! 2021 ist ein Jahr der Zäsur. Mit der Bundestagswahl endet nach 16 Jahren die Ära Merkel, und in einer historischen Entscheidung stärkt das Bundesverfassungsgericht die Freiheitsrechte der jüngeren Generation. Die Ökologie steht nun endlich im Zentrum aller Zukunftsfragen. Große Umbrüche stehen... Read more

The World Before Us

By: Tom Higham

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology



Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near East, and parts of Eurasia, Hobbits (H. floresiensis) on the island of... Read more

Life in the City of Dirty Water

By: Clayton Thomas-Muller

Narrated by: Clayton Thomas-Muller

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

*FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*





NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the... Read more

The Wild World Handbook

By: Andrea Debbink

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with real-life tales of adventure and practical tools, this handbook is an inspiring guide for the next generation of climate activists, conservationists, and nature lovers.The wonder of the natural world surrounds us—from the Amazon rainforest to the snowy peaks of Mount Everest to the green spaces in big cities. And as the threat of... Read more

Mountain Laurels

By: Genevieve C. Sparks

Narrated by: Kathy Bell Denton

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Mountain Laurels is the first published collection of poems written by Genevieve C. Sparks over many years in what she calls "the simple form of mountain colloquial." While some individual poems draw their meaning from a personal experience of the poet, "the basic thought of the book in its entirety is," she says, "the great inspiration derived... Read more

Kaninchen halten für Einsteiger: Wie Sie die Kaninchenhaltung ohne Vorerfahrung gekonnt meistern - inkl. Tipps zur Erstausstattung, bei Krankheiten und zur Dressur - Abridged

By: Frederick Buschmann

Narrated by: Marie Blumenberg

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kaninchen sind wunderbare, niedliche und gern zu beobachtende Lebewesen. Mit ihren großen Kulleraugen und manchmal überlangen Ohren ziehen sie nahezu jeden tierfreundlichen Menschen und vor allem Kinder in ihren Bann. Es gibt sie in allen erdenklichen Farben und Formen. Einige Kaninchen haben langes Fell und wiederum andere kurzes. Sie können... Read more

Travels with my suitcase

By: Teresa Beck-Swindale

Narrated by: Teresa Beck-Swindale

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A musician on the road travels with an ear to the ground.This story of a search for sound involves encounters with random buskers, sublime jazz festivals, quirky folk musicians and singers of many nationalities.Tales of suitcases, sculptures and instrumental characters collide in a compendium of discoveries across the island state of Tasmania,... Read more

A Field Guide to Larking

By: Lara Maiklem

Narrated by: Lara Maiklem

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A Field Guide to Larking is a practical, interactive and inspiring guide to 'larking' from the bestselling author of Mudlarking.
To lark is to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight. We think, of course, of mudlarking but there is also beachlarking, fieldlarking or even simply... Read more

The Black Ridge

By: Simon Ingram

Narrated by: Richard Burnip

Length: 24 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland’ Cameron McNeish, The Herald Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin. ... Read more

Paradise

By: Lizzie Johnson

Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive firsthand account of the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies.

Now in development as a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera

“A tour de force story of wildfire and a terrifying look at what lies ahead.”—San... Read more

If You Fall

By: Tracey Litfin

Narrated by: Tracey Litfin

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

If you fall off, get straight back on again …

Tracey had been told this so often as a child. Yet, two months after the horse-riding accident, Tracey was still not able to fulfil it. In fact, at that stage, she couldn’t do anything for herself. You’d think that after nearly losing her life and her abilities to live life as it was before because of... Read more

In Kiltumper

By: Niall Williams & Christine Breen

Narrated by: Christine Breen & Niall Williams

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents In Kiltumper by Niall Williams and Christine Breen, read by Niall Williams and Christine Breen.

From the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a meditation on the power, beauty, and importance of the natural world.

35 years ago, when they were in their twenties, Niall Williams... Read more