Environmental History

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    • By: Mark Fiege
    • Narrated by: William Bahl
    • Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred....

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 436 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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    • An Untold History
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand....

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    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,718 ratings
    • The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

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    • The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
    • By: Nick Offerman
    • Narrated by: Nick Offerman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,418 ratings
    • A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times best-selling author Nick Offerman....

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    • An Environmental History of the American West (Environment and Region in the American West)
    • By: Sara Dant
    • Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as “Eden” and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years....

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    • The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
    • By: Dan Flores
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 357 ratings
    • Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....

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    • How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
    • By: Marcia Bjornerud
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future....

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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 2,572 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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    • John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
    • By: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 29 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy....

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    • A Fire History of Mexico
    • By: Stephen J. Pyne
    • Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Five Suns completes a North American fire-history trilogy written by Pyne over the past forty years, complementing his histories of Canada and the United States.

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    • A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
    • By: Carl A. Zimring
    • Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate", he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in history....

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    • An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
    • By: Bathsheba Demuth
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
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    • As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

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    • New York City and the Catskills (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
    • By: David Stradling
    • Narrated by: Paul E Silbermann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For over 200 years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process....

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