Conservation History

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    • George Bird Grinnell Adventurer, Activist, and Author
    • By: Thom Hatch
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Award-winning author Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as "The Father of American Conservation." This book chronicles not only Grinnell's life, but also offers a history of his accomplishments....

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    • Alexander von Humboldt's New World
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,601 ratings
    • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....

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    • The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
    • By: Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,159 ratings
    • Babylon's Ark chronicles Anthony's hair-raising efforts to save a pride of Saddam's lions....

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    • The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
    • By: Michael Grunwald
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. In this book Michael Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it....

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    • A History
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 610 ratings
    • In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras....

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    • A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
    • By: Douglas W. Tallamy
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 512 ratings
    • Nature's Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government....

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    • Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
    • By: Michelle Nijhuis
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • In the late 19th century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born....

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    • By: David Attenborough
    • Narrated by: David Attenborough
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 808 ratings
    • The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, now available as an audiobook for the first time....

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    • And Sketches Here and There
    • By: Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver - introduction
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 596 ratings
    • First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 759 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

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    • The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
    • By: Jordan Fisher Smith
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • The fascinating story of the century-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness, as told through the prism of a tragic death at Yellowstone....

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    • A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure (Battle Mage Farmer, Book 8)
    • By: Seth Ring
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Series: Battle Mage Farmer, Book 8
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 530 ratings
    • For John Sutton, rest is just around the corner. Soon it will be time to sit on his porch, kick his feet up, and watch his wheat grow. All he has to do first is fight his way through a cutthroat magic competition held once every thousand years.

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    • The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
    • By: Cain Blythe, Paul Jepson
    • Narrated by: Robin Laing
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive ecological processes, benefiting people as well as nature....

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    • The Many Pasts of an Indian River
    • By: Sudipta Sen
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora....

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    • Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss
    • By: William deBuys
    • Narrated by: William deBuys
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • A revitalizing new perspective on Earthcare from Pulitzer Prize finalist William deBuys....

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    • The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
    • By: Ben Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,667 ratings
    • Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200....

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    • Earth's Last Wilderness
    • By: Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
    • Narrated by: Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the future of Earth.

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    • Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food
    • By: Lenore Newman
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future....

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    • Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity....

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