AuthorDavid Attenborough
NarratorDavid Attenborough
SeriesQuest Under Capricorn, Book 2
Duration3h 15m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Science and Nature
Key StageA Level
PublisherBBC
VersionUnabridged
The story of a joint animal-collecting and film-making trip to Indonesia. Attenborough tells of danger on the crew's hazardous boat trip with a gun smuggling captain and the terror of erupting volcanoes. Experience the incredible sights he witnessed - breathtaking butterflies, taking tea with Charlie the Orangutan and the capture of a Komodo dragon.
David Attenborough: Quest In Paradise
Author: David Attenborough
Author David Attenborough
Narrator David Attenborough
SeriesQuest Under Capricorn, Book 3
Duration 2h 45m
The story of David Attenborough's joint animal-collecting and film-making trip to New Guinea. The quest demanded hazardous treks across treacherous terrain in the Jimi Valley to find exotic Birds of Paradise.
View BookAuthor: Malcolm Gladwell
Author Malcolm Gladwell
Narrator Malcolm Gladwell
Duration 8h 47m
The highly anticipated new book from Malcolm Gladwell, host of Revisionist History and No.1 international bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw and David and Goliath. The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of...
View BookAuthor: David Attenborough
Author David Attenborough
Narrator David Attenborough
Duration 17h 52m
At the age of 26, David Attenborough applied for a job at the BBC - which then meant radio - and was turned down. It was suggested that he tried television, and fifty years later he is still one of British television's most well-loved figures. This audiobook covers both his hectic half-century in television, as well as expeditions to some very wild...
View BookAuthor: David George Haskell
Author David George Haskell
Narrator The Author, Cassandra Campbell
Duration 10h 26m
David Haskell's award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees' connections with webs of fun...
View BookDavid Attenborough's Life Stories
Author: David Attenborough
Author David Attenborough
Narrator David Attenborough
Duration 3h 10m
The complete cBBC Radio 4 series written and presented by Sir David Attenborough featuring all twenty episodes about some of the strangest plants and creatures from around the world. One of the nation's most popular presenters examines twenty marvels of the natural world from his extraordinary and pioneering experiences. What was Sir David's first...
View BookAuthor: Annaka Harris
Author Annaka Harris
Narrator Annaka Harris
Duration 2h 22m
As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience. What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for...
View BookAuthor: Monty Don
Author Monty Don
Narrator Monty Don
Duration 7h 38m
Written as he talks, this is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice. Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers, and much more. Read about the month-by month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you.
View BookAuthor: Henry Marsh
Author Henry Marsh
Narrator Henry Marsh
Duration 7h 47m
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal and Ukraine, Henry has been forced to reflect more deeply about what 40 years spent handling the human brain has taught him. Moving between encounters with patients in his Lond...
View BookAuthor: David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
Author David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
Narrator The Authors
Duration 8h 53m
Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century. Ocean is informed by the author’s extensive travels in and around the Atlantic Ocean, crossing Newfo...
View BookAuthor: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Author Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrator The Author
Duration 16h 44m
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. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldes...
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