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Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344909 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344909] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vesper Flights Author: Helen MacDonald Narrator: Helen MacDonald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 27, 2020 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved pieces, along with new essays on topics and stories ranging from nostalgia and science fiction to the true account of a refugee's flight to the UK. Her pieces ranges from accounts of swan upping on the Thames to watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary to seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. She writes about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, what we do when we watch wildlife and why. This is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us, by one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers. © Helen Macdonald 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill Mckibben

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344650 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344650] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? Author: Bill Mckibben Narrator: Bill Mckibben, Oliver Wyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 16, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: '[Oliver Wyman's] skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair...This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future.' — AudioFile Magazine This program includes a foreword read by the author. Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history -- and we’ll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears built slip away. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

Reforesting Faith: What Trees Teach Us About the Nature of God and His Love for Us by Matthew Sleeth

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345099 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345099] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reforesting Faith: What Trees Teach Us About the Nature of God and His Love for Us Author: Matthew Sleeth Narrator: Matthew Sleeth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 16, 2019 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: This groundbreaking walk through Scripture by former physician and carpenter Dr. Matthew Sleeth makes the convincing case that trees reveal more about God and faith than you ever imagined.  “Christians looking to reconnect to the natural world will relish Sleeth’s passionate call to Christian stewardship of the Earth.”—Publishers Weekly Fifteen years ago, Matthew Sleeth believed that science and logic held the answers to everything. But when tragedy struck, he opened the Bible for the first time and was surprised to find that God chose to tell the gospel story through a trail of trees. There’s a tree on the first page of Genesis, in the first psalm, on the first page of the New Testament, and on the last page of Revelation. The Bible’s wisdom is referred to as a tree of life. Every major biblical character and every major theological event has a tree marking the spot. A tree was the only thing that could kill Jesus—and the only thing Jesus ever harmed. Reforesting Faith is the rare book that builds bridges by connecting those who love the Creator with creation and those who love creation with the Creator. Join Dr. Sleeth as he explores the wonders of life, death, and rebirth through the trail of trees in Scripture. Once you discover the hidden language of trees, your walk through the woods—and through Scripture—will never be the same.

The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343583 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343583] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms Author: Naoko Abe Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith, Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 19, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: The incredible—and improbable—story of how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms from extinction. Collingwood Ingram—known as “Cherry” for his defining passion—was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Visiting Japan in 1902 and again in 1907, he fell in love with the country’s distinctive cherry blossoms, or sakura, and brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he created a garden of cherry varieties. On a 1926 trip to Japan to search for new specimens, Ingram was shocked to find a dramatic decline in local cherry diversity. A cloned variety was taking over the landscape and becoming the symbol of Japan’s expansionist ambitions, while the rare and spectacular Taihaku, or “Great White Cherry,” had disappeared entirely. But thousands of miles away, at Ingram’s country estate, the Taihaku still prospered. After returning to Britain, the amateur botanist buried a living cutting from his own collection into a potato and repatriated it to Japan via the Trans-Siberian Express. Over the decades that followed, Ingram became one of the world’s leading cherry experts and shared the joy of sakura both nationally and internationally, sending more than a hundred varieties of cherry tree to new homes around the globe, from Auckland, New Zealand to Washington, D.C. As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom.

Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond by John Lewis-Stempel

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344925 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344925] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond Author: John Lewis-Stempel Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 14, 2019 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Still Water by John Lewis-Stempel, read by Leighton Pugh. The Pond. Nothing in the countryside is more humble or more valuable. It’s the moorhen’s reedy home, the frog’s ancient breeding place, the kill zone of the beautiful dragonfly. More than a hundred rare and threatened fauna and flora depend on it. Written in gorgeous prose, Still Water tells the seasonal story of the wild animals and plants that live in and around the pond, from the mayfly larvae in the mud to the patrolling bats in the night sky above. It reflects an era before the water was polluted with chemicals and the land built on for housing, a time when ponds shone everywhere like eyes in the land, sustaining life for all, from fish to carthorse. Still Water is a loving biography of the pond, and an alarm call on behalf of this precious but overlooked habitat. Above all, John Lewis-Stempel takes us on a remarkable journey – deep, deep down into the nature of still water.