- Geology (111)
Bestsellers
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The Invention of Nature
- Alexander von Humboldt's New World
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....
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Poignant origin story
- By Jeremy Fairbanks on 03-03-16
By: Andrea Wulf
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- By aaron on 08-02-20
By: Lewis Dartnell
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The Endurance
- By: Caroline Alexander
- Narrated by: Michael Tezla, Martin Rubin
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration....
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Wonderful Story - Listen To Others As Well
- By Mark M. on 11-13-18
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- By: Marco Polo
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...
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An educational experience.
- By Doug on 06-23-03
By: Marco Polo
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....
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What really happened to four "lost" cities
- By Elisabeth Carey on 04-12-21
By: Annalee Newitz
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
- By: John Wesley Powell
- Narrated by: Andre Stojka
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The great unknown of the Southwest is conquered by a one-armed man and his crew of adventurers, placing the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon on the map of the American continent....
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Unfortunate Narration
- By Eclipse on 03-14-17
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The Invention of Nature
- Alexander von Humboldt's New World
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....
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Poignant origin story
- By Jeremy Fairbanks on 03-03-16
By: Andrea Wulf
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- By aaron on 08-02-20
By: Lewis Dartnell
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The Endurance
- By: Caroline Alexander
- Narrated by: Michael Tezla, Martin Rubin
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Abridged
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In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration....
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Wonderful Story - Listen To Others As Well
- By Mark M. on 11-13-18
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- By: Marco Polo
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...
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An educational experience.
- By Doug on 06-23-03
By: Marco Polo
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....
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What really happened to four "lost" cities
- By Elisabeth Carey on 04-12-21
By: Annalee Newitz
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
- By: John Wesley Powell
- Narrated by: Andre Stojka
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The great unknown of the Southwest is conquered by a one-armed man and his crew of adventurers, placing the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon on the map of the American continent....
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Unfortunate Narration
- By Eclipse on 03-14-17
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Maphead
- Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
- By: Ken Jennings
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night....
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A Romp through Maps
- By Lynn on 01-27-12
By: Ken Jennings
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Savage Arena
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Savage Arena is both moving and exciting, an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path, endlessly seeking new challenges, climbs and difficulties to overcome. It is not reaching the summit which counts, it is the journey to it....
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Decades of inspiration
- By Anonymous User on 01-30-21
By: Joe Tasker
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
- By: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a treasure trove of answers to questions about our world.
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Errors
- By The History Teacher on 08-29-15
By: Kenneth C. Davis
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Reading the Rocks
- The Autobiography of the Earth
- By: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation....
By: Marcia Bjornerud
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From Here to There
- The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
- By: Michael Bond
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? How can we come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted....
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Fascinating
- By CE on 09-29-20
By: Michael Bond
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Landmarks
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place....
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Buy the book
- By Kindle Customer on 08-08-17
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The Gilded Age
- By: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War....
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An American classic, beautifully narrated
- By TX lilbit on 03-31-12
By: Mark Twain, and others
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Everest the Cruel Way
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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On 30 January, 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible....
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Nothing really happens
- By W. Sherer on 05-20-23
By: Joe Tasker
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Moby-Duck
- The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
- By: Donovan Hohn
- Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography.....
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Brilliant narration
- By K. on 06-09-11
By: Donovan Hohn
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Himalaya
- Exploring the Roof of the World
- By: John Keay
- Narrated by: Nick Holbek
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet....
By: John Keay
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Netting the Sun
- A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert (Northwest Voices Essays)
- By: Melvin R. Adams
- Narrated by: Nate Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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Netting the Sun offers a carefully crafted diversity of natural and human stories from a landscape seemingly empty and forlorn to passing casual travelers....
By: Melvin R. Adams
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Rivers of Power
- How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
- By: Laurence C. Smith
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith explores the timeless yet underappreciated relationship between rivers and civilization as we know it....
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Great book about a topic rarely written about
- By Katherine on 05-23-20
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The Measure of All Things
- The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World
- By: Ken Alder
- Narrated by: Byron Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Amid the chaos of the French Revolution, two astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world...
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Average
- By Thomas on 04-25-03
By: Ken Alder
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The History and Topography of Ireland
- By: Gerald of Wales
- Narrated by: Laura Orlando
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Gerald of Wales, also called Giraldus Cambrensis or Gerald De Barri ( c. 1146-c. 1223), was the archdeacon of Brecknock and a historian whose accounts of late 12th century Britain and France contain vivid anecdotes about the Christian church....
By: Gerald of Wales
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Why Geography Matters
- More Than Ever
- By: Harm de Blij
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds....
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A book that needs more than just narration
- By Organic Design on 06-10-15
By: Harm de Blij
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The Ogre
- Biography of a Mountain and the Dramatic Story of the First Ascent
- By: Doug Scott
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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On a July 1977 day, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival....
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Narrator not good. Annoying to listen to
- By LO on 01-14-23
By: Doug Scott
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Two Years Before the Mast
- By: Richard Henry Dana
- Narrated by: Athur Addison
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the true story of a Harvard graduate who forsook his studies for two years of the grueling life of an ordinary seaman....
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Must reading
- By Carole B. Regan on 05-14-17
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Worlds at War
- The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
- By: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....
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Great story, with a lot of unfamiliar names
- By Tad Davis on 07-02-08
By: Anthony Pagden
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In Some Lost Place: The First Ascent of Nanga Parbat’s Mazeno Ridge
- By: Sandy Allan
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya - the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain....
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Sandy Allan brings authenticity to this book
- By T Lou on 06-04-21
By: Sandy Allan
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The Ship and the Storm
- Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome
- By: Jim Carrier
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Captain Guyan March had spent his entire professional career aboard Windjammer Barefoot Cruises’ fleet of extravagant tall ships that carry passengers on weeklong fantasy cruises spiced with rum and sun....
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More Story Then Fact
- By OceanBlue on 09-01-23
By: Jim Carrier
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Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls
- True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors
- By: Edward E. Leslie
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 21 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors....
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Slow to start
- By nancy on 12-03-06
By: Edward E. Leslie
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The Flat Earth
- An Experimental Inquiry
- By: Samuel Rowbotham
- Narrated by: Don Navarre
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the original audiobook that spawned a thousand theories and is still heating up the blogosphere today. A must-have for out-of-the-box thinkers....
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Can’t listen to this voice
- By dustin on 09-01-22
By: Samuel Rowbotham
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Great Powers and Geopolitical Change
- By: Jakub J. Grygiel
- Narrated by: C. James Moore
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Here, political scientist Jakub J. Grygiel brings to light the importance of incorporating geography into grand strategy....
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Great book!
- By iakovos1000 on 08-01-18
By: Jakub J. Grygiel
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Rough Water
- Stories of Survival from the Sea
- By: Sebastian Junger, Herman Wouk, Patrick O'Brian, and others
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Hear the riveting stories of men and women battling the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting savage storms...
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ehhh
- By Christopher on 11-13-03
By: Sebastian Junger, and others