Natural Disasters
Atmospheric Sciences Earth Sciences Safety & Emergency Preparedness Disaster Relief Weather Physical Geography Volcano Environmental Geology
1 - 20 of 211 results
Product List
  • Isaac's Storm Audiobook By Erik Larson cover art

    • Isaac's Storm

    • A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,199 ratings

    • At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Five Days at Memorial Audiobook By Sheri Fink cover art

    • Five Days at Memorial

    • Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
    • By: Sheri Fink
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,566 ratings

    • After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....

    Regular price: $22.50 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $22.50 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • The Perfect Storm Audiobook By Sebastian Junger cover art

    • The Perfect Storm

    • A True Story of Men Against the Sea
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,612 ratings
    • Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • The Ends of the World Audiobook By Peter Brannen cover art

    • The Ends of the World

    • Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
    • By: Peter Brannen
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,964 ratings
    • Our world has ended five times: It has been broiled, frozen, poison gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids....

    Regular price: $22.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $22.49 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • The Big Burn Audiobook By Timothy Egan cover art

    • The Big Burn

    • Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings

    • In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land....

    Regular price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Last Train to Paradise Audiobook By Les Standiford cover art

    • Last Train to Paradise

    • Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Del Roy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 584 ratings

    • Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century....

    Regular price: $16.16 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $16.16 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Under a Flaming Sky Audiobook By Daniel James Brown cover art

    • Under a Flaming Sky

    • The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
    • By: Daniel James Brown
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 599 ratings
    • On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire....

    Regular price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Ruthless Tide Audiobook By Al Roker cover art

    • Ruthless Tide

    • The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
    • By: Al Roker
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings

    • A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood - the deadliest flood in US history - from New York Times best-selling author, NBC host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker....

    Regular price: $21.59 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.59 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Smokejumper Audiobook By Jason A. Ramos, Julian Smith cover art

    • Smokejumper

    • A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
    • By: Jason A. Ramos, Julian Smith
    • Narrated by: Ned Vaughn
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 594 ratings
    • In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes listeners into his exhilarating and dangerous world....

    Regular price: $19.79 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.79 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • The Finest Hours Audiobook By Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman cover art

    • The Finest Hours

    • The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue
    • By: Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Series: True Rescue Series, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,780 ratings
    • The Finest Hours is the gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of two ships....

    Regular price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • Into the Storm Audiobook By Tristram Korten cover art

    • Into the Storm

    • Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
    • By: Tristram Korten
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings

    • The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • The Precipice Audiobook By Toby Ord cover art

    • The Precipice

    • Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Toby Ord
    • Narrated by: Toby Ord
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 658 ratings

    • This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • Northeaster Audiobook By Cathie Pelletier cover art

    • Northeaster

    • A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952
    • By: Cathie Pelletier
    • Narrated by: Morgan Bailey Keaton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • Cathie Pelletier's breathtaking account of the 1952 snowstorm that blanketed New England, offers a valuable reminder about nature's capacity for destruction as well as insight into the human instinct for preservation....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Death in the Air Audiobook By Kate Winkler Dawson cover art

    • Death in the Air

    • The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 421 ratings
    • Kate Winkler Dawson's debut, Death in the Air, is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing....

    Regular price: $21.83 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.83 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Into the Raging Sea Audiobook By Rachel Slade cover art

    • Into the Raging Sea

    • Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
    • By: Rachel Slade
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,097 ratings

    • On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years....

    Regular price: $24.29 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.29 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Granite Mountain Audiobook By Brendan McDonough, Stephan Talty - contributor cover art

    • Granite Mountain

    • The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
    • By: Brendan McDonough, Stephan Talty - contributor
    • Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 895 ratings

    • The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"....

    Regular price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Wave Audiobook By Sonali Deraniyagala cover art

    • Wave

    • A Memoir
    • By: Sonali Deraniyagala
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 341 ratings
    • On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived....

    Regular price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • The Year Without Summer Audiobook By William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman cover art

    • The Year Without Summer

    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings

    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • A Furious Sky Audiobook By Eric Jay Dolin cover art

    • A Furious Sky

    • The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings

    • With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
  • Fatal Forecast Audiobook By Michael Tougias cover art

    • Fatal Forecast

    • An Incredible True Story of Disaster and Survival at Sea
    • By: Michael Tougias
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 666 ratings
    • Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were ambushed by a horrific surprise storm just southeast of Cape Cod....

    Regular price: $13.96 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.96 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00
Show items per page