Environmental History

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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 427 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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    • 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 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 43 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 1,702 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 2,337 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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    • 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 101 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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    • The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
    • By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions and a call for environmentalists to learn from the indigenous community’s rich history of activism....

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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 1 rating
    • 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 Environmental History of Slavery in the American South
    • By: David Silkenat
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape....

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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 52 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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    • America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West
    • By: John Taliaferro
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell - the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation....

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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 342 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 124 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 2,538 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 Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
    • By: Bartow J. Elmore
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 399 ratings
    • Bartow J. Elmore explores Coke through its ingredients, showing how the company secured massive quantities of coca leaf, caffeine, sugar, and other inputs....

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