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- Discover the hidden nature on your doorstep
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Elisabeth Tova Bailey tells the intimate and inspiring story of her year-long encounter with a snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, she becomes an astute and amused observer of the snail's surprising nocturnal adventures as it lives in a flowerpot on her nightstand. Intrigued by the snail’s clear decision making abilities, hydraulic locomotion, mysterious courtship, and molluscan anatomy, Bailey takes the listener deep into the life of this tiny amazing animal. With wit and grace, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating recounts a remarkable journey of human and gastropod survival and resilience, and shows how the natural world illuminates our own human existence. Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Nonfiction, the John Burrough Medal Award for Natural History, and a National Outdoor Book Award. If you enjoyed Wesley the Owl, The Guest Cat, and Marley & Me, you'll enjoy this unique interspecies audiobook listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an unexpected wonder. The quiet virtues of the snail reflect the quiet voyage of the author.
- De Frances en 08-03-15
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The Backyard Parables
- Lessons on Gardening, and Life
- De: Margaret Roach
- Narrado por: Margaret Roach
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Margaret Roach has been harvesting 30 years of backyard parables - deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper - and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Writing Distracting Reading
- De Amazon Customer en 02-11-13
De: Margaret Roach
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How to Read Nature
- An Expert's Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
- De: Tristan Gooley
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His message is to connect - however we can and to whatever draws us in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fool sees not the same tree a wise man sees
- De Mark A Bleakley en 08-07-18
De: Tristan Gooley
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A Naturalist at Large
- The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich
- De: Bernd Heinrich
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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From one of the finest scientists and writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded marvelous, mind-altering insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Bernd Heinrich finds himself at his beloved camp in Maine, plays host to annoying visitors from Europe (the cluster fly) and more helpful guests from Asia (ladybugs), and unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of elephants in Botswana bruising mopane trees.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen and See the World Anew!
- De Thoughtful Learner en 06-03-18
De: Bernd Heinrich
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The Wild Places
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Simon Bubb
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 82
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Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magical
- De Jennifer en 01-27-22
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My First Summer in the Sierra
- De: John Muir
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 6 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 463
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It was June of 1869 when John Muir reluctantly accepted a job herding sheep from the central valley of California to the headwaters of the Merced and Tuolumne Rivers, high into the Sierra Nevadas and deep into the Yosemite region. He felt ill equipped for the work, and yet the opportunity thrilled his adventurous spirit. With a notebook tied to his belt, he set out for a summer he would never forget. My First Summer in the Sierra is Muir’s classic account of that extraordinary journey.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost every line is quotable
- De Kacy en 08-30-13
De: John Muir
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The Old Ways
- A Journey on Foot
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perfect pairing of prose and narrator
- De chris en 11-05-12
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The Turquoise Ledge
- De: Leslie Marmon Silko
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Leslie Marmon Silko established herself as “the finest prose writer of her generation” (Larry McMurtry) with her debut novel Ceremony, one of the most acclaimed works of the 20th century. Of mixed Laguna Pueblo, Cherokee, Mexican, and white heritage, Silko brings a unique perspective to her powerful works. In this deeply personal and spiritual book, she combines memoirs, traditional storytelling, and ruminations on the natural world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Crazy lady talks about aliens, snakes and rocks
- De Justice Campbell en 10-21-17
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The Armchair Birder
- Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds
- De: John Yow
- Narrado por: Kevin Young
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 115
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While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging and sometimes irreverent vignettes, Yow reveals the fascinating lives of the birds we see nearly every day. Following the seasons, he covers forty-two species, discussing the improbable, unusual, and comical aspects of his subjects' lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If You Love Birds . . . Grab It!
- De Kathy in CA en 02-23-17
De: John Yow
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The Cabaret of Plants
- Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
- De: Richard Mabey
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't wait to listen to again!
- De hyacinthgirl en 12-27-16
De: Richard Mabey
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One Wild Bird at a Time
- Portraits of Individual Lives
- De: Bernd Heinrich
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 532
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In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich's cabin delivers the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Adventure In Nature
- De Sara en 12-21-16
De: Bernd Heinrich
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Rascal
- De: Sterling North
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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In 1918 Wisconsin, 11-year-old Sterling North has an almost perfect life. He keeps skunks in the backyard, goes everywhere with his enormous Saint Bernard, and is building a canoe in the living room. The only trouble is life gets a little lonely for him and his father since his mother died. While scouting around the woods one afternoon, he discovers an abandoned, month-old raccoon. Afraid the kit will die on its own, he takes it home to join his menagerie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Enjoyable
- De Tad en 02-13-10
De: Sterling North
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Feathers
- The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Andy Ingalls
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: Aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Science and Fun
- De Chris Reich en 12-28-14
De: Thor Hanson
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Ring of Bright Water
- De: Gavin Maxwell
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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'Ring of Bright Water' represents Gavin Maxwell's account of his life at Camusfearna, a remote cottage in the western Highlands, and in particular the two otters, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant and much-loved companions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Kindness to Creatures Great and Small
- De Sariah en 01-19-18
De: Gavin Maxwell
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The Habit of Rivers
- Reflections on Trout Streams and Fly Fishing
- De: Ted Leeson, John Gierach - foreword
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines' Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was. Taking his fishing hobby to near metaphysical levels, Ted Leeson tells about his passions: rivers, trout, and fly fishing. With wry humor and rare insight, he explores questions that engage most fishermen: What is it about rivers that draws us so irresistibly, and why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited response?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greatest Book I've Ever Listened To.
- De Travis en 03-17-18
De: Ted Leeson, y otros
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Poemcrazy
- Freeing Your Life with Words
- De: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Narrado por: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Her Words, Her Voice...
- De S. Schultz en 11-21-14
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The Summer Book
- De: Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal - translator
- Narrado por: Natasha Soudek
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer - its sunlight and storms - into 22 crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GORGEOUS. FULL OF GRACE. NEEDED THIS.
- De Annie Armstrong en 04-14-22
De: Tove Jansson, y otros
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- De: Jonathan Meiburg
- Narrado por: Jonathan Meiburg
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don't leave reviews often, but . . .
- De Steven L Peck en 06-24-21
De: Jonathan Meiburg