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Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

Narrated by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

Unabridged

16 hours 44 min

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer ... Read more

$22.99 USD

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
... Read more
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The Glorians

Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

by Terry Tempest Williams ...

Narrated by Terry Tempest Williams ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

“I go to Terry Tempest Williams for the reasons I go to Whitman and Thoreau: to recover a capacious spirit and to rejoin the urgent living world. She gives me something bigger than hope.”?Richard Powers, author of The OverstoryFrom the visionary New York Times bestselling author, a revelatory work of narrative nonfiction exploring beauty in the desert, climate change, and, transformative moments ... Read more

$25.99 USD

“I go to Terry Tempest Williams for the reasons I go to Whitman and Thoreau: to recover a capacious spirit and to rejoin the urgent living world. She gives me something bigger than hope.”?Richard Powers, author of The OverstoryFrom the visionary New York Times bestselling author, a revelatory work of narrative nonfiction exploring beauty in the desert, climate change, and, transformative moments
... Read more
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Raising Hare

A Memoir

by Chloe Dalton ...

Narrated by Louise Brealey ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over ... Read more

$17.50 USD

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over
... Read more
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The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate

by Peter Wohlleben ...

Narrated by Mike Grady ...

Unabridged

7 hours 33 min

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles FosterWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles FosterWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to
... Read more
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Mycelium Running

How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

by Paul Stamets ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

15 hours

Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called “mycelium”--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other ... Read more

$24.00 USD

Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called “mycelium”--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other
... Read more
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Underland

A Deep Time Journey

by Robert Macfarlane ...

Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

Unabridged

12 hours 3 min

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.In this highly anticipated sequel to The Old Ways, ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.In this highly anticipated sequel to The Old Ways,
... Read more
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The Spirit of the Rainforest

How Indigenous Wisdom Reconnects Us to Nature

by Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza ...

Narrated by Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza ...

Unabridged

9 hours 22 min

Before you step into the jungle, there are a few things you need to know...Join scientist Dr Rosa Vasquez Espinoza as she uncovers one of the most unexplored regions on the planet.Dr Rosa is no stranger to the Amazon. Growing up with the rainforest as her back garden, she learnt the lessons of the rainforest from her grandmother, a native healer in natural medicine. She went on to pursue a ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Before you step into the jungle, there are a few things you need to know...Join scientist Dr Rosa Vasquez Espinoza as she uncovers one of the most unexplored regions on the planet.Dr Rosa is no stranger to the Amazon. Growing up with the rainforest as her back garden, she learnt the lessons of the rainforest from her grandmother, a native healer in natural medicine. She went on to pursue a
... Read more
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Tigers Between Empires

The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China

by Jonathan C. Slaght ...

Narrated by Jonathan C. Slaght ...

Unabridged

12 hours 17 min

"Author-narrator [Jonathan C.] Slaght reads this account of the Siberian Tiger Project with a clear, grounded delivery that reflects his background as a field researcher...Slaght's performance reflects observation, patience, and sustained attention to both human and animal lives." — Kirkus (Earphones Award Winner)The thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, ... Read more

$26.99 USD

"Author-narrator [Jonathan C.] Slaght reads this account of the Siberian Tiger Project with a clear, grounded delivery that reflects his background as a field researcher...Slaght's performance reflects observation, patience, and sustained attention to both human and animal lives." — Kirkus (Earphones Award Winner)The thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together,
... Read more
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Owls of the Eastern Ice

A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl

by Jonathan C. Slaght ...

Narrated by Jonathan C. Slaght ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern RussiaWhen he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Soon he was ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern RussiaWhen he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Soon he was
... Read more
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The Story of Stuff

How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change

by Annie Leonard ...

Narrated by Annie Leonard ...

Unabridged

12 hours 2 min

A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet.The Story of Stuff was received with widespread enthusiasm in hardcover, by ... Read more

$26.99 USD

A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet.The Story of Stuff was received with widespread enthusiasm in hardcover, by
... Read more
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Is a River Alive?

by Robert Macfarlane ...

Narrated by Robert Macfarlane ...

Unabridged

10 hours 40 min

From the bestselling author of Underland and "the great nature writer . . . of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers—and life itself.Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

From the bestselling author of Underland and "the great nature writer . . . of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers—and life itself.Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing,
... Read more
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Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

by Merlin Sheldrake ...

Narrated by Merlin Sheldrake ...

Unabridged

9 hours 32 min

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.**“Grand and dizzying in how ... Read more

$20.00 USD

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.**“Grand and dizzying in how
... Read more
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The Sixth Extinction

by Elizabeth Kolbert ...

Narrated by Anne Twomey ...

Unabridged

9 hours 59 min

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFrom the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important workabout the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFrom the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important workabout the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and
... Read more
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The Book of Hope

A Survival Guide for Trying Times

by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams ...

Narrated by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams ...

Series series Global Icons Series
Unabridged

6 hours 49 min

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF.Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.In this urgent audiobook, Jane Goodall, one of the world's most famous ... Read more

$22.99 USD

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF.Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.In this urgent audiobook, Jane Goodall, one of the world's most famous
... Read more
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Civilized To Death

The Price of Progress

by Christopher Ryan ...

Narrated by Christopher Ryan ...

Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book.Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced ... Read more

$25.99 USD

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book.Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced
... Read more
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The Spell of the Sensuous

Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

by David Abram ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

12 hours 4 min

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity ... Read more

$17.99 USD

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity
... Read more
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Life on Earth

by David Attenborough ...

Narrated by David Attenborough ...

Unabridged

12 hours 26 min

A new edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.Winner of Best Non-Fiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019.Shortlisted for Best Audiobook at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018.Shortlisted for Futurebook of the Year at the Futurebook Awards 2018.The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, ... ... Read more

$27.99 USD

A new edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.Winner of Best Non-Fiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019.Shortlisted for Best Audiobook at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018.Shortlisted for Futurebook of the Year at the Futurebook Awards 2018.The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, ...
... Read more
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The Secret Wisdom of Nature

Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things; Stories from Science and Observation

by Peter Wohlleben ...

Narrated by Sean Barrett ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy
Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

The final book in the Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter WohllebenNature is full of surprises—deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can make it rain—but what are the processes that drive these incredible phenomena? And why do they matter?In The ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The final book in the Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter WohllebenNature is full of surprises—deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can make it rain—but what are the processes that drive these incredible phenomena? And why do they matter?In The
... Read more
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Desert Solitaire

A Season in the Wilderness

by Edward Abbey ...

Narrated by Michael Kramer ...

Unabridged

11 hours 31 min

When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road, and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ... Read more

$19.99 USD

When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road, and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park
... Read more
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk

The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

by Ben Montgomery ...

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the
... Read more
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Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson ...

Narrated by Kaiulani Lee ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

First published in 1962, Silent Spring can singlehandedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large. "Silent Spring came as a cry in the wilderness, a deeply felt, thoroughly researched, and ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

First published in 1962, Silent Spring can singlehandedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large. "Silent Spring came as a cry in the wilderness, a deeply felt, thoroughly researched, and
... Read more
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A Brief History of Earth

Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

by Andrew H. Knoll ...

Narrated by Tom Parks ...

Unabridged

4 hours 57 min

***How well do you know the ground beneath your feet?***A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist.“A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched ... Read more

$19.99 USD

***How well do you know the ground beneath your feet?***A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist.“A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched
... Read more
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Changes in the Land

Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

by William Cronon ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 18 min

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land provides a brilliant ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land provides a brilliant
... Read more
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The Rise of Wolf 8

Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

by Rick McIntyre ...

Narrated by Geoff Sugiyama ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone
Unabridged

8 hours 1 min

“The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves.” —Washington Post“[The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings.” —Marc Bekoff, Psychology TodayYellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the last of their kind in ... Read more

$17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

“The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves.” —Washington Post“[The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings.” —Marc Bekoff, Psychology TodayYellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the last of their kind in
... Read more

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