Environmental History

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    • A History
    • By: Sunil Amrith
    • Narrated by: Esh Alladi
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs.

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    • The Southern Plains in the 1930s
    • By: Donald Worster
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In the mid-1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world 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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    • 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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    • 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 63 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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    • 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 377 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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    • 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 54 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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    • 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Henry Gee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • In the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story....

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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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    • 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 443 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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    • 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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    • A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
    • By: Annie Proulx
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change....

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    • Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    • By: Stephen J. Pyne
    • Narrated by: Jack de Golia
    • Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape. A timely environmental classic....

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    • Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness
    • By: Neil Nathan
    • Narrated by: Adam Fedyk, Neil Nathan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Millions of people are suffering from chronic illnesses that, unbeknownst to them, are the result of exposure to environmental toxins and infectious agents such as mold and Borrelia, which causes Lyme disease. Millions....

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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 134 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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    • 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 2,447 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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