A Life on Our Planet
By: Sir David Attenborough
Narrated by: Sir David Attenborough
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.
See the world. Then make it better.
I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.
As a... Read more
Miracle Country
By: Kendra Atleework
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero.
Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the... Read more
The Love Lives of Birds
By: Laura Erickson
Narrated by: Laura Erickson
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From the lifelong devotion of the American crow to the dalliances of the eastern bluebird, from the bald eagle’s dazzling aerial display to the male ruby-throated hummingbird’s reputation as a “deadbeat dad” — courtship, mating, and parenting differ dramatically among birds. Ornithologist and author Laura Erickson takes readers on a... Read more
View audiobookThe Falcon Thief
By: Joshua Hammer
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.
On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine... Read more
How to Be a Good Creature
By: Sy Montgomery
Narrated by: Sy Montgomery
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and... Read more
View audiobookCacophony of Bone
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Narrated by: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Two days after the winter solstice in 2019, Kerri and her partner moved to a remote cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to settle into a stable life. Then the pandemic arrived and their secluded abode became a place of enforced isolation. What was meant to be the beginning of an enriching new chapter was... Read more
View audiobookBeastly
By: Keggie Carew
Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Animals have shaped our minds, our lives, our land, and our civilization. Humanity would not have gotten very far without them—making use of their labor for transportation, agriculture, and pollination; their protection from predators; and their bodies for food and to make clothing, music, and art. And over the last two centuries, humans have... Read more
View audiobookThe Shotgun Conservationist
By: Brant MacDuff
Narrated by: Brant MacDuff
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
At the intersection of hunting and conservation, a man shares his personal journey from staunch anti-hunter to compassionate, ethical hunter, weaving together a larger history of humans, animals, the environment, and our food systems.
The Shotgun Conservationist doesn’t teach us how to hunt, it explores why we should hunt. As public lands remain... Read more
A Wing and a Prayer
By: Anders Gyllenhaal & Beverly Gyllenhaal
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Stephen Graybill
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population.
Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty years. No species has been spared, from the most delicate jeweled hummingbirds... Read more
Wolfish
By: Erica Berry
Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"Lessa Lamb narrates with a fine tone and timbre. She inhabits the youthful sound and elegant style of this layered audiobook. Her timing and sense of occasion add richness to its informed foray into all things wolf as she captures the drama, fear, and anxiety that underlie the immersive presentation." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award... Read more
View audiobookThe Darkness Manifesto
By: Johan Eklöf
Narrated by: Owen Findlay
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Scientific American
This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own well-being, and all life on earth.
How much light is too much light?... Read more
Running Out
By: Lucas Bessire
Narrated by: John Chancer
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the National Book Award
This audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The... Read more
The Well-Gardened Mind
By: Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener presents “a truly uplifting book on the power of gardening—and how it can change people’s lives” (Stylist, UK).
The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. When we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life... Read more
Erosion
By: Terry Tempest Williams
Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist
In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of... Read more
How to Catch a Mole
By: Marc Hamer
Narrated by: Marc Hamer
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
In this evocative and heart-wrenching memoir, a hard-working Welsh molecatcher reveals his double life as a poet and a dreamer • “A wonderful memoir … hands down the most charming book I read last year.”—Margaret Renkl, The New York Times“How to Catch a Mole is a small book of many things. In quiet, crystalline prose, it blends memoir, keen... Read more
View audiobookEat Like a Fish
By: Bren Smith
Narrated by: Bren Smith
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith—a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer—shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed.
Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean... Read more
The Ravenmaster
By: Christopher Skaife
Narrated by: Christopher Skaife
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Christopher Skaife's] natural storyteller's charm results in a performance that is conversational, funny, and self-deprecating...Ravenmaster is a joyful listening experience." — AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
The first behind-the-scenes account of life with the legendary ravens at the world’s eeriest monument.
The ravens... Read more
Spying on Whales
By: Nick Pyenson
Narrated by: Nick Pyenson
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —Nature
Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present.
Whales are... Read more
The Man Who Caught the Storm
By: Brantley Hargrove
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post).
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last... Read more
Spineless
By: Juli Berwald
Narrated by: Juli Berwald
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"A book full of wonders" —Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk
"Witty, insightful. . . .The story of jellyfish. . . is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future." —New York Times Book Review
Jellyfish have been swimming... Read more
American Wolf
By: Nate Blakeslee
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Nate Blakeslee
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in... Read more
The Light Room
By: Kate Zambreno
Narrated by: Kate Zambreno
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.“ —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
From “one of our most formally ambitious writers” (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss
In The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and... Read more
California Burning
By: Katherine Blunt
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
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 that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost... Read more
The Bald Eagle
By: Jack E. Davis
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America.
The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious... Read more