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A Short History of the World According to Sheep
- By: Sally Coulthard
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the rolling hills of medieval England to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Starting with our Neolithic ancestors' first forays into sheep-rearing nearly 10,000 years ago, these remarkable animals have fed us, clothed us, changed our diet and languages, helped us to win wars, decorated our homes and financed the conquest of large swathes of the earth.
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Reasonably interesting, but recording has a glitch
- By foobar3000 on 16-09-25
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A Short History of the World According to Sheep
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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Hunt for the Shadow Wolf
- The Lost History of Wolves in Britain and the Myths and Stories That Surround Them
- By: Derek Gow
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Renowned rewilder Derek Gow has a dream: that one day we will see the return of the wolf to Britain as it has already returned elsewhere. As Derek worked to reintroduce the beaver, he began to hear stories of the wolf, both real and mythical, and his fascination with this creature grew. With increasing curiosity, Derek started to piece together fragments of information, stories and artefacts to reveal a shadowy creature that first walked proud through these lands and then was hunted to extinction as coexistence turned to fear, hatred–and domination.
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Excellent narration
- By Shades of Blue Q on 21-10-25
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Hunt for the Shadow Wolf
- The Lost History of Wolves in Britain and the Myths and Stories That Surround Them
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-03-24
- Language: English
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The Cuckoo's Lea
- The Forgotten History of Birds and Place
- By: Michael J. Warren
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place by Michael J. Warren, read by John Sackville Birds have long inspired our emotional and imaginative connections to physical environments, but where did it all begin? Hidden in the names of English towns and villages...
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Brilliant
- By naomi newsham on 17-07-25
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The Cuckoo's Lea
- The Forgotten History of Birds and Place
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Discovering the Okapi
- Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma (Animals, History, Culture)
- By: Simon Pooley
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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In Discovering the Okapi, Simon Pooley offers a fascinating portrait of the okapian elusive short-necked giraffid with zebra stripes, surviving in the rainforests of central Africa's Congo basin and unpacks the complicated layers of Western science and Indigenous knowledge that shaped the world's understanding of this unique creature.
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Discovering the Okapi
- Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma (Animals, History, Culture)
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 03-06-26
- Language: English
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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth
- 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
- By: Henry Gee
- Narrated by: Henry Gee
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically...
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EXTRAORDINARY
- By andrew james lilley on 23-09-21
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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth
- 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
- Narrated by: Henry Gee
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Wilderlands
- The Human History of Wild Britain
- By: Eloise Kane
- Narrated by: Eloise Kane
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In Wilderlands, archaeologist Eloise Kane unearths 12,000 years of our changing relationship with and influence on the landscape. Through prehistory, Roman occupation, the Middle Ages and beyond, we see the unfamiliar beasts of our old wild make way for species such as brown hare and fallow deer, now romanticised as eternal symbols of the British countryside, but introduced much later than we might think. Places free from our influence haven't existed for a very long time. But Eloise Kane invites us to rethink our definition of the wild - not as separate from us.
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A life changing expectation of the world I thought I knew.
- By Kathryn Bennett on 07-06-26
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Wilderlands
- The Human History of Wild Britain
- Narrated by: Eloise Kane
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to...
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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Leviathan
- The History of Whaling in America
- By: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrated by: James Boles
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. This absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs.
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Leviathan
- The History of Whaling in America
- Narrated by: James Boles
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 26-07-07
- Language: English
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Hoof Beats
- How Horses Shaped Human History
- By: William T. Taylor
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Hoof Beats transforms our understanding of both horses and humanity's ancient past and asks us to consider what our relationship with horses means for the future of humanity and the world around us.
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Hoof Beats
- How Horses Shaped Human History
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-11-24
- Language: English
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When There Were Birds
- The forgotten history of our connections
- By: Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A landmark book that charts humanity's changing relationship with birds - from the ancient Egyptians to the twenty-first century 'A marvellously original slice of social history' Daily Mail 'The facts and folklore of birdlife are dissected in admirable detail in this handsome book' Sunday Times...
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Amazing facts and sadness about the decline of our bird life
- By Melissa A Baker on 14-03-26
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When There Were Birds
- The forgotten history of our connections
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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The Mosquito
- A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- By: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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**The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the...
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The Mosquito
- A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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Beastly Britain
- An Animal History
- By: Karen R. Jones
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered why we count sheep to get to sleep? Or where the phrase "red herring" comes from? Across British history, animals have been written about in poetry, painted in oils, and even recorded in law. Loved or feared, familiar or endangered, animals are everywhere to be seen. In this enchanting study, Karen R. Jones takes a journey through the history of ten animals to show the extraordinary story of "beastly" Britain.
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Beastly Britain
- An Animal History
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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The Domestication of Dogs
- The History of Dogs’ Genetic Divergence from Wolves and the Origins of Their Relationship with Humans
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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As the oft-repeated and invariably accurate pearl of wisdom goes, a dog truly is man's best friend. For a long time, people have almost universally loved dogs, and it seems to have been that way for at least tens of thousands of years. When affection is abundantly and consistently expressed, this pure, unspoken, wholesome love is one that is very much requited, and then some. This bond can be demonstrated by the mere existence of pet keepers who unironically refer to themselves as “dog parents,” not merely “dog owners”.
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The Domestication of Dogs
- The History of Dogs’ Genetic Divergence from Wolves and the Origins of Their Relationship with Humans
- Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 12-06-20
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs
- The 230-Million-Year Story of Their Time on Earth
- By: Riley Black
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, but these two dinosaurs lived more than eighty million years apart—a greater span of time than the entire post-T. rex history of the planet. Furthermore, we often know even less about the environments these animals lived in. The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs tells the full story, a 230-million-year epic of small beginnings, spectacular golden periods, and eventual global domination.
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The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs
- The 230-Million-Year Story of Their Time on Earth
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Series: The Shortest History
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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The Age of the Horse
- An Equine Journey Through Human History
- By: Susanna Forrest
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth-and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdotes, Susanna Forrest draws from an immense range of archival documents as well as literature and art to illustrate how our evolution has coincided with that of horses.
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A new classic of equine history
- By KK on 13-07-22
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The Age of the Horse
- An Equine Journey Through Human History
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 12-09-17
- Language: English
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Red Leviathan
- The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
- By: Ryan Tucker Jones
- Narrated by: Ryan Tucker Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans. In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction.
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A very important book
- By Bruno Saragat on 04-12-22
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Red Leviathan
- The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
- Narrated by: Ryan Tucker Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-08-22
- Language: English
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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
- The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
- By: Mike Shanahan
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers, rain forest royalty, more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps and Stranglers tells their amazing story. Fig trees fed our prehuman ancestors, influenced diverse cultures, and played key roles in the dawn of civilization.
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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
- The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 28-11-17
- Language: English
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Farewell to the Horse
- A Cultural History
- By: Ulrich Raulff, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp - translator
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Horses and humans share an ancient, complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries. But during the 20th century, in an increasingly mechanized society, they began to disappear from human history. In this esoteric and rich tribute, award-winning historian Ulrich Raulff chronicles the dramatic story of this most spectacular creature, thoroughly examining how they've been muses and brothers in arms, neglected and sacrificed in war yet memorialized in paintings, sculpture, and novels.
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Farewell to the Horse
- A Cultural History
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-02-18
- Language: English
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Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
- A Deep Environmental History
- By: Geoff Cunfer, Bill Waiser
- Narrated by: Chuck Buell
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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This audiobook explores the deep past and examines the latest knowledge on bison anatomy and physiology, how bison responded to climate change (especially drought), and early bison hunters and pre-contact trade. It also focuses on the era of European contact, in particular the arrival of the horse, and some of the first known instances of over-hunting. By the 19th century, bison reached a "tipping point" as a result of new tanning practices, an early attempt at protective legislation, and ventures to introducing cattle as a replacement stock.
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Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
- A Deep Environmental History
- Narrated by: Chuck Buell
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 14-08-17
- Language: English
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The Cretaceous Period
- The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era That Ended with the Extinction of Dinosaurs
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
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Scientists have long attempted to understand Earth’s past, and in service to that effort, they have divided the world’s history into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. For example, the current eon is called the Phanerozoic Eon, which means “visible life”. This is the eon in which multicellular life has evolved and thrived. Before this, life was microscopic (single cells).
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The Cretaceous Period
- The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era That Ended with the Extinction of Dinosaurs
- Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-05-20
- Language: English
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