Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Animals & Nature

Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben Mcgrath

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/349707 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/349707] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Riverman: An American Odyssey Author: Ben Mcgrath Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: ‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert ‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America’s riverbank towns. ‘The peace of mind I found, largely alone, on that white-water mecca convinced me that life was capable of exquisite pleasure and undefined meaning deep in the face of failure. The experience itself is the reward.’ Dick Conant On his forty-third birthday, Dick Conant, a golden boy who never quite grew up as those around him expected, stepped into a homemade boat to embark on a journey despite a gathering snowstorm. Among his possessions was a Gideon Bible and biographies of Einstein and Bismark. It was the beginning of an all-consuming odyssey by an unconventional man into the watery arteries of America, a journey to the unreported margins of society. He was to spend the next twenty years canoeing thousands of miles of rivers and their innumerable smaller tributaries, from one end of the country to the other. ‘I can, and I will!’ he said. And then, in 2014, he disappeared. Not long before Conant’s upturned canoe was found in a brackish North Carolina bay, Ben McGrath met Conant by chance as he paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath set out to find the people whose lives, like his own, had been touched by their encounter with the great river wanderer. Along the way he meets eccentrics and ne’er-do-wells drawn straight from the pages of Mark Twain, a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Riverman is the story of a restless soul who was as troubled as he was charismatic, a contemporary folk hero who slips the moorings of ordinary civilised life to tap into what Thoreau called ‘a yearning toward all wildness.’ It is also a riveting portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long forgotten waterways.

Frankel: The Greatest Racehorse of All Time and the Sport That Made Him by Simon Cooper

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367373 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367373] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frankel: The Greatest Racehorse of All Time and the Sport That Made Him Author: Simon Cooper Narrator: Rupert Bush Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 6, 2020 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: In horse racing greatness is defined by speed. Being the second fastest counts for little. You have to win. And win. And keep winning until every challenger of your generation is put to the sword. Of the twelve horses lined up on Newmarket Heath that 2011 day, one would do just that. And more. To become the greatest racehorse that has ever lived. Frankel was born on 11 February 2008, with four white socks and a blaze, from impressive equine lines on both his parents’ sides. Simon Cooper revisits the whole of the horse’s life, giving readers an inside tour of the calm oasis that is life a stud farm, where a foal will live with his mother for the first year of his life. Next, the atmosphere of heady possibility that marks the early days of training. Roadwork. Gallops. Trials. Turning raw potential into something more. Frankel begins to set himself apart. A detailed and fast-paced narrative breathlessly recounts the racing career of the horse who, by his retirement to stud at the age of 4, would be rated the greatest of all time. Cooper weaves the horse’s tale with those of his trainer, battling cancer, the stablehands who coped with his explosive nature, the work rider who tamed him, the the jockey who rode in all fourteen of his races, and the owner who saw his potential from the very beginning. The result is a rich and multifaceted tale of modern horse racing, the lives of everyone involved, human and equine, and the unadulterated glory of winning. And winning everything.

The Elephants: Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants by Hannah Mumby

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386258 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386258] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Elephants: Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants Author: Hannah Mumby Narrator: Gemma Lawrence Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: What Jane Goodall did for chimpanzees, international ecologist and conservation scientist Hannah Mumby now does for elephants in this compelling, eye-opening account that brings into focus this species remarkably similar to humans—and makes a persuasive argument for saving them. From early childhood, Dr. Hannah Mumby has loved wildlife, especially elephants. Her first wild elephant sighting at twenty-four changed the course of her life. Since then, she has devoted herself to studying these incredible animals and educating humanity about them. Hannahs field work has taken her around the world, where she has studied many elephant groups, including both orphaned elephants and the solitary elephant males. These remarkable animals have so much to teach us, Mumby argues, and Elephants takes readers into their world as never before, revealing a society as complex as the chimpanzees, maybe even humans. Mumby's exploration of elephant culture provides an empathetic, humanistic portrait of these majestic animals, illuminating their personalities, memories, and rich emotional lives. Mumby explains how elephants communicate with one another and demonstrates the connection between memory and trauma—how it affects individual elephants and their interactions with others in their herd. Elephants and humans, Mumby makes clear, are not very different. From emotional bonding to communication, human and elephant experience similarly nuanced lives, and the commonalities she uncovers are both surprising and heartwarming. Elephants is a captivating, deeply moving exploration that offers a new way to look at these pachyderms and ourselves and a persuasive, passionate argument for rethinking our approach to animals and their conservation.

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369346 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369346] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Author: Janine M. Benyus Narrator: Callie Beaulieu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 21, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: This ''valuable and entertaining'' (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution by Carolyn Merchant

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387279 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387279] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution Author: Carolyn Merchant Narrator: Juliet Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 24, 2020 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.