Bestsellers
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- De Andrew en 11-09-09
De: Bill Bryson
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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- De: Ed Yong
- Narrado por: Ed Yong
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world....
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If you’ve never read about the wonder of animal sensory capabilities this is for you
- De MediaBaron en 06-27-22
De: Ed Yong
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A Sand County Almanac
- And Sketches Here and There
- De: Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver - introduction
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land....
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Great in some ways; in others, wtf!
- De RG en 06-22-20
De: Aldo Leopold, y otros
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- De: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrado por: David Wallace-Wells
- Duración: 9 h
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it....
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- De Ricky en 03-17-19
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Stronghold
- One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
- De: Tucker Malarkey
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey’s eye-opening account of one of the world’s greatest fly fishermen and his crusade to protect the world’s last bastion of wild salmon....
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Breathtakingly Brilliant
- De Stephen Victor en 08-21-21
De: Tucker Malarkey
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
- De: Ben Goldfarb
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers....
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A fine natural history and great listen
- De Theo Smith en 12-30-18
De: Ben Goldfarb
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- De Andrew en 11-09-09
De: Bill Bryson
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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- De: Ed Yong
- Narrado por: Ed Yong
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world....
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If you’ve never read about the wonder of animal sensory capabilities this is for you
- De MediaBaron en 06-27-22
De: Ed Yong
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A Sand County Almanac
- And Sketches Here and There
- De: Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver - introduction
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land....
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Great in some ways; in others, wtf!
- De RG en 06-22-20
De: Aldo Leopold, y otros
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- De: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrado por: David Wallace-Wells
- Duración: 9 h
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it....
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- De Ricky en 03-17-19
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Stronghold
- One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
- De: Tucker Malarkey
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey’s eye-opening account of one of the world’s greatest fly fishermen and his crusade to protect the world’s last bastion of wild salmon....
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Breathtakingly Brilliant
- De Stephen Victor en 08-21-21
De: Tucker Malarkey
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
- De: Ben Goldfarb
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers....
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A fine natural history and great listen
- De Theo Smith en 12-30-18
De: Ben Goldfarb
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Gory Details
- De: Erika Engelhaupt
- Narrado por: Mari Weiss
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Filled to the brim with far-out facts, this wickedly informative narrative from the author of National Geographic's popular Gory Details blog takes us on a fascinating journey through an astonishing new reality....
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Feels like old school Discovery channel
- De Anonymous User en 02-15-23
De: Erika Engelhaupt
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The World Before Us
- The New Science Behind Our Human Origins
- De: Tom Higham
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology....
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Wonderfully Accessible
- De Deborah N en 11-02-21
De: Tom Higham
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- De: Jason Roberts
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories....
De: Jason Roberts
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The Life of Birds (Updated Edition)
- De: David Attenborough
- Narrado por: David Attenborough
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Birds. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals. David Attenborough has been watching and learning all his life. His classic book, now fully updated with the latest discoveries in ornithology, is a brilliant introduction to bird behaviours around the world....
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Weathering
- De: Ruth Allen
- Narrado por: Ruth Allen
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, dissolving, recycling, shifting, solidifying, and weathering....
De: Ruth Allen
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The Sacred Balance (25th Anniversary Edition)
- Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
- De: David Suzuki, Robin Wall Kimmerer - foreword, Bill McKibben - afterword
- Narrado por: David Suzuki, Megan Tooley, Zack Sage
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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The world is changing at a relentless pace. How can we slow down and act from a place of respect for all living things? The Sacred Balance shows us how....
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PLEASE SEE: The Chapter designations are all wrong in this recording!!
- De A. Horan en 01-20-24
De: David Suzuki, y otros
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Horizon
- De: Barry Lopez
- Narrado por: James Naughton
- Duración: 22 h y 53 m
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From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world....
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Brilliant Wise and Thought Provoking
- De findley en 05-04-19
De: Barry Lopez
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The Trials of Life
- A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
- De: David Attenborough
- Narrado por: David Attenborough
- Duración: 10 h
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This is the third and last of Sir David’s great natural history books based on his TV series and completes his survey of the animal world that began with Life on Earth and continues with Living Planet....
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Calming
- De Fai en 02-28-24
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Late Migrations
- A Natural History of Love and Loss
- De: Margaret Renkl
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents....
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Excellent!
- De Jennifer N Talbert en 07-19-19
De: Margaret Renkl
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The Mosquito
- A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- De: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 19 h y 7 m
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A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate....
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Major Disappointment
- De Amazon Customer en 09-02-19
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- De: Thomas Halliday
- Narrado por: Adetomiwa Edun
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life....
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Great book brilliantly read
- De Dipam en 04-06-22
De: Thomas Halliday
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These Trees Tell a Story
- The Art of Reading Landscapes
- De: Noah Charney
- Narrado por: Douglas R Pratt
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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A deeply personal master class on how to read a natural landscape and unravel the clues to its unique ecological history....
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Voice is grating
- De Sean en 03-19-24
De: Noah Charney
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Natural Magic
- Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
- De: Renée Bergland
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls.
De: Renée Bergland
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Ten Birds That Changed the World
- De: Stephen Moss
- Narrado por: Stephen Moss
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. Naturalist and author Stephen Moss tells the gripping story of this long and intimate relationship through key species from all seven of the world’s continents....
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Fascinating Stories
- De beth en 10-01-23
De: Stephen Moss
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin
- The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
- De: Diana Preston
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Sastre
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles—invited by ship’s captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion....
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Excellent narration. Wonderful history of a transformative figure.
- De Hank en 12-20-23
De: Diana Preston
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The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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The natural and human history of the Galapagos Islands - beloved vacation spot, fiery volcanic chain, and one of the critical sites in the history of science....
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Thought-Provoking
- De Jean en 10-23-18
De: Henry Nicholls
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- De: Kermit Pattison
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"—a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution....
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Oh narrator
- De Paul en 01-21-21
De: Kermit Pattison
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The Sixth Extinction (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
- De: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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The Sixth Extinction draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines to provide a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept...
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The Panda's Thumb
- More Reflections in Natural History
- De: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrado por: Jonathan Sleep
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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The wonders and mysteries of evolutionary biology are elegantly explored by the celebrated natural history writer Stephen Jay Gould....
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Extinctions
- How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
- De: Michael J. Benton
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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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....
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Wonderful, thought provoking !
- De Judy en 05-06-24
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White Pine
- The Natural and Human History of a Foundational American Tree
- De: John Pastor
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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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....
De: John Pastor
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Birds, Beasts and Relatives
- The Corfu Trilogy, Book 2
- De: Gerald Durrell
- Narrado por: Nigel Davenport
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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Gerald Durrell was 10 when he moved to Corfu, where he met intoxicated hedgehogs and a menagerie of eccentric friends....
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The antidote to stress
- De Rebecca en 09-07-14
De: Gerald Durrell
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Curious Species
- How Animals Made Natural History
- De: Whitney Barlow Robles
- Narrado por: Daniela Acitelli
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Whitney Barlow Robles makes animals the unruly protagonists of eighteenth-century science through journeys to four spaces and ecological zones: the ocean, the underground, the curiosity cabinet, and the field....
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The Song of the Dodo
- Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
- De: David Quammen
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 24 h y 36 m
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David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message - a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world....
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Extensive and Entertaining
- De Thylacine en 07-26-21
De: David Quammen