Conservation History

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    • George Bird Grinnell Adventurer, Activist, and Author
    • By: Thom Hatch
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 8 ratings
    • Award-winning author Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as "The Father of American Conservation." This book chronicles not only Grinnell's life, but also offers a history of his accomplishments in saving the wildlife...

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    • The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
    • By: Paul Jepson, Cain Blythe
    • Narrated by: Robin Laing
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 37 ratings
    • Rewilding is the first popular book on the ground-breaking science behind the restoration of wild nature. As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive...

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    • The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
    • By: Christopher Knowlton
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 334 ratings
    • Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse...

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    • In Search of a Lost Icon
    • By: Steven Rinella
    • Narrated by: Steven Rinella
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 10,544 ratings
    • From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.” A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the...

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    • By: The Atlas Writers Guild
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-26
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the vibrant and complex story of the Sunshine State in Sunshine Chronicles: A History of Florida. From its Indigenous roots and Spanish ...

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    • The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
    • By: Matthew Wolfe
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller, Matthew Wolfe
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-26
    • Language: English
    • 7 ratings
    • “Riveting.” —Adam Federman, The New Republic “Cinematic, suspenseful, totally immersive.” —Zoë Schlanger, New York Times bestselling author of The Light Eaters “This book is a marvel.” —Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails and In Trees “Masterful...

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    • A History
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 623 ratings
    • Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant...

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    • Wilderness Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, and the Spiritual Foundations of American Conservation
    • By: The Practical Atlas
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-26
    • Language: English
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    • John Muir Explained: Wilderness Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, and the Spiritual Foundations of American Conservation explores the life, ideas, ...

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    • A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation
    • By: Tim Birkhead
    • Narrated by: Tim Birkhead
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 19 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by acclaimed ornithologist Tim Birkhead traces the history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans....

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    • By: Ben Goldfarb
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 1,027 ratings
    • 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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    • An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
    • By: Paul Rosolie
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 489 ratings
    • Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land....

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    • The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
    • By: Katherine Blunt
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 194 ratings
    • NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance) A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one...

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    • Chasing Water and Dust Across California
    • By: Mark Arax
    • Narrated by: Mark Arax
    • Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 268 ratings
    • A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water...

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    • Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea
    • By: Jeffrey Marlow
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-26
    • Language: English
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    • An awe-inspiring investigation into the hidden world of the deep sea—the most mysterious, unforgiving environment on Earth—whose secrets can radically revise our understanding of life itself and chart our planetary future. “A brilliant scientist and storyteller, Jeffrey Marlow takes us on...

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    • A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
    • By: David Attenborough
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 11-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 38 ratings
    • The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David...

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    • Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
    • By: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Dennis Holland
    • Length: 40 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 287 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president"....

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    • An All-Consuming History of Energy
    • By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-25
    • Language: English
    • 6 ratings
    • The radical, paradigm-shifting international bestseller that destroys our delusions about energy consumption and will change the way we talk about climate change. We have long been taught that humanity’s relationship with energy is one of progress, with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil...

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    • A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
    • By: Earl Swift
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 215 ratings
    • A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books...

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    • Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History
    • By: Darrin Lunde
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 759 ratings
    • Winner of the inaugural Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize A captivating account of how Theodore Roosevelt’s lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America’s wildlife conservation movement and determined his legacy as a founding father of today’s museum naturalism...

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