Showing results by publisher "Random House Audiobooks" in Nature & Ecology
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A Sting in the Tale
- By: Dave Goulson
- Narrated by: Dave Goulson
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the short-haired bumblebee is now extinct in the UK but still exists in the wilds of New Zealand, descended from a few queen bees shipped over in the 19th century. A Sting in the Tale tells the story of Goulson’s passionate drive to reintroduce it to its native land and contains groundbreaking research into these curious creatures, history’s relationship with the bumblebee, the disastrous effects intensive farming has had on our bee populations and the potential dangers if we are to continue down this path.
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Saving the Bumblebee
- By Rob Mellowship on 16-07-19
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A Sting in the Tale
- Narrated by: Dave Goulson
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 16-08-18
- Language: English
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Head On
- By: Sir Ian Botham
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Voted the greatest English cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, Sir Ian Botham is the English game’s one true living legend, and his story, both on and off the pitch, reads like a Boy’s Own rollercoaster ride. Born with a natural genius for the game, Botham began breaking records with bat and ball from a young age and soon became the man English cricket expected most from. After a troubled period as captain, Botham rose once again to become a national hero with his display in the Miracle Ashes of 1981.
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Dull and poorly read
- By Kendall on 13-02-19
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Head On
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-02-11
- Language: English
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Still Water
- The Deep Life of the Pond
- By: John Lewis-Stempel
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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Love this book
- By T. Griffith on 11-10-19
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Still Water
- The Deep Life of the Pond
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-03-19
- Language: English
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Our Place
- By: Mark Cocker
- Narrated by: Mark Cocker
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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Environmental thought and politics have become parts of mainstream cultural life in Britain. The wish to protect wildlife is now a central goal for our society, but where did these ‘green’ ideas come from? And who created the cherished institutions, such as the National Trust or the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, that are now so embedded in public life, with millions of members?
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Fact heavy and species light
- By Rachael B. on 06-11-19
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Our Place
- Narrated by: Mark Cocker
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 16-08-18
- Language: English
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I Contain Multitudes
- The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
- By: Ed Yong
- Narrated by: Charlie Anson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth. In I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light, less as individuals and more as thriving ecosystems.
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Very enjoyable read
- By Millymagpie on 14-09-16
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I Contain Multitudes
- The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
- Narrated by: Charlie Anson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-09-16
- Language: English
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The Wood
- The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
- By: John Lewis-Stempel
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed the wood. He coppiced the trees and raised cows and pigs who roamed free there. This is the diary of the last year, by which time he had come to know it from the bottom of its beech roots to the tip of its oaks and to know all the animals that lived there - the fox, the pheasants, the wood mice, the tawny owl - and where the best bluebells grew. For many fauna and flora, woods like Cockshutt are the last refuge. It proves a sanctuary for John, too.
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Re-creates the life and harmony of being in the woods
- By Mel on 05-01-19
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The Wood
- The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-03-18
- Language: English
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The Inner Life of Animals
- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
- By: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a beehive, The Inner Life of Animals takes us from microscopic levels of observation to the big philosophical, ethical and scientific questions.
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Too much evolution
- By christofherson on 22-08-18
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The Inner Life of Animals
- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 19-10-17
- Language: English
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The Running Hare
- The Secret Life of Farmland
- By: John Lewis-Stempel
- Narrated by: Bernard Hill
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last 20 years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is running for its life. Written in exquisite prose, The Running Hare tells the story of the wild animals and plants that live in and under our ploughland, from the labouring microbes to the patrolling kestrel above the corn, from the linnet pecking at seeds to the seven-spot ladybird.
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Beautiful
- By keren cornelius on 20-03-18
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The Running Hare
- The Secret Life of Farmland
- Narrated by: Bernard Hill
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 11-05-17
- Language: English
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H Is For Hawk
- By: Helen MacDonald
- Narrated by: Helen MacDonald
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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"Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Costa Biography Award‘. In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they’re the birdwatchers’ dark grail.’ As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T. H.
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Superb Autobiography, superb audiobook.
- By Chris Lilly on 30-01-15
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H Is For Hawk
- Narrated by: Helen MacDonald
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-12-14
- Language: English
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The Unexpected Truth About Animals
- By: Lucy Cooke
- Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows migrated to the moon, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that were licked into shape by their mothers.
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Who are we to judge?
- By Amazon Customer on 20-04-18
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The Unexpected Truth About Animals
- Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-11-17
- Language: English
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Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
- A Memoir
- By: Chris Packham
- Narrated by: Chris Packham
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham was only at home in the fields and woods around his suburban home. But when he stole a young kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love - and that would change him forever.
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The Call of the Wild
- By Rachel Redford on 13-06-16
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Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Chris Packham
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 05-05-16
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of the Owl
- By: John Lewis-Stempel
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel, read by Roy McMillan. 'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light. Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.' There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the Stone Age onwards. They are creatures of the night, and thus of magic. They are the birds of ill-tidings, the avian messengers from the Other Side.
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A enjoyable listen
- By Ellen on 01-11-17
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The Secret Life of the Owl
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-10-17
- Language: English
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The January Man
- A Year of Walking Britain
- By: Christopher Somerville
- Narrated by: Christopher Somerville
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again - a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. After teenage rifts it was walking that brought us closer as father and son, and this ghost of Dad has been walking at my elbow since his death, as I have ruminated on his great love of walking, his prodigious need to do it - and how and why I walk myself.
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Heartfelt, intensely personal and often beautiful
- By Tommy on 19-04-17
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The January Man
- A Year of Walking Britain
- Narrated by: Christopher Somerville
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-01-17
- Language: English
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
- By: Dan Parry
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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‘It didn’t matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel. All that mattered to Neil as he searched for a safe spot to land was that boulders littered the surface below. “Thirty seconds,” called mission control. In truth, the flight controllers were now no more than spectators, just like everybody else. No more needed to be said. It was down to Armstrong
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Great story
- By Caro on 22-11-12
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-02-11
- Language: English
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Centaur
- By: Declan Murphy, Ami Rao
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan, Julie Maisey
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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A natural on a horse since he was able to walk, and imbued with a pure love of riding, Declan Murphy became one of the most brilliant jockeys of his generation before his world came crashing down at the final hurdle of a race at Haydock Park. His skull shattered in 12 places, he was believed to be dead, the last rites were read and the Racing Post published his obituary. Miraculously, and the word is not used lightly, he survived and defied medical thinking in recovering to the extent that 18 months after his fall, he was able to saddle up for one more race.
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Best autobiography I've listened to
- By Rachael on 18-05-17
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Centaur
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan, Julie Maisey
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 27-04-17
- Language: English
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The Glorious Life of the Oak
- By: John Lewis-Stempel
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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The oak is our most beloved and most common tree. It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures, but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together. More than half the ancient oaks in the world are in Britain. Many of our ancestors - the Angles, the Saxons, the Norse - came to the British Isles in longships made of oak. For centuries the oak touched every part of a Briton's life - from cradle to coffin. It was oak that made the 'wooden walls' of Nelson's navy, and the navy that allowed Britain to rule the world.
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A great writer who reads too rapidly.
- By Anonymous User on 23-04-19
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The Glorious Life of the Oak
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-10-18
- Language: English
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How to Catch a Mole
- And Find Yourself in Nature
- By: Marc Hamer
- Narrated by: Marc Hamer
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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Although common, moles are mysterious: their habits are inscrutable, they are anatomically bizarre and they live completely alone. Marc Hamer has come closer to them than most, both through his long working life out in the Welsh countryside and his experiences of rural homelessness as a boy, sleeping in hedgerows. Over the years, Marc has learned a great deal about these small, velvet creatures who live in the dark beneath us and the myths that surround them, and his work has also led him to a wise and uplifting acceptance of the inevitable changes that we all face.
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Endearing especially if you are a mole
- By Miss D T Quinn on 29-05-21
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How to Catch a Mole
- And Find Yourself in Nature
- Narrated by: Marc Hamer
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-04-19
- Language: English
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Rescue Me
- By: Melissa Wareham
- Narrated by: Melissa Wareham
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs. After failing her biology O-level she realised she'd have to start at the bottom, cleaning out kennels at Battersea Dogs Home. From frail old men looking for a four-legged companion to famous folk who've lost their favourite hound, it seemed that at some point everyone passes through Battersea's doors. Amongst the clamour of thousands of lost pets crying "Rescue Me!" and the noise of the railway lines above, Melissa found she had come home.
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happiness, laughter, sadness and tears
- By rebecca Warman on 05-02-21
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Rescue Me
- Narrated by: Melissa Wareham
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-01-13
- Language: English
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