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The Way Home
- Tales from a Life Without Technology
- By: Mark Boyle
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio, or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. The Way Home is a modern-day Walden - an honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life lived in nature without modern technology. Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man, explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging, and fishing.
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Life changing!
- By Kindle Customer on 22-08-19
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The Way Home
- Tales from a Life Without Technology
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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My Family and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Nigel Davenport
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family - as well as puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies.
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Animal Anecdotes
- By Kindle Customer on 21-08-07
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My Family and Other Animals
- Narrated by: Nigel Davenport
- Series: Corfu, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-08-07
- Language: English
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A Year of Living Simply
- The Joys of a Life Less Complicated
- By: Kate Humble
- Narrated by: Kate Humble
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining happiness has become, it appears, anything but simple. Having stuff - the latest, the newest, the best yet - is all too often peddled as the surefire route to happiness. So why then, in our consumer-driven society, is depression, stress and anxiety ever more common, affecting every strata of society and every age, even, worryingly, the very young?
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Middle class simplicity
- By B McH on 08-04-21
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A Year of Living Simply
- The Joys of a Life Less Complicated
- Narrated by: Kate Humble
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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My Garden World
- The Natural Year
- By: Monty Don
- Narrated by: Monty Don
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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My Garden World by Monty Don is a celebration of every living creature that we all share. This year has given us the enforced opportunity to learn more about the fascinating natural world around us. Whether you live in the countryside or the town, Monty's observations and insights are relevant to each and every one of us. My Garden World is Monty Don's personal journey through the natural year, month by month, season by season, observed from the immediate world around him.
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A glimmer of light in this, our troubled lives.
- By Carol Hollis on 19-01-22
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My Garden World
- The Natural Year
- Narrated by: Monty Don
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-07-21
- Language: English
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Born Free Trilogy
- By: Joy Adamson
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Joy Adamson is world-famous as the woman who walked with lions. These are the books that brought the story of her work to a public whose imagination was captured by the discovery of this remarkable interaction between man and beast. Born Free was first published in 1960, and tells the story of her relationship with Elsa, raising her from a young cub and later releasing her into the wild. Living Free and Forever Free continues Elsa's story and that of her cubs.
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Born Free Trilogy
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-08-24
- Language: English
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Myself and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Myself and Other Animals is a new book mosaicked from unpublished autobiographies, uncollected pieces and previously published extracts from Durrell’s work and archives. The result is an extraordinary journey through Durrell’s life in his own words, edited and introduced by his widow Lee Durrell. Moving from India to England and then to the always sun-lit Corfu, told with dry wit and insight into our fellow animals, here is the vivid finale of one of Britain’s most beloved conservationists and prose stylists.
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Myself and Other Animals
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 05-12-24
- Language: English
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The Stubborn Light of Things
- A Nature Diary
- By: Melissa Harrison
- Narrated by: Melissa Harrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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A Londoner for more than 20 years, moving from flat to Tube to air-conditioned office, Melissa Harrison knew what it was to be insulated from the seasons. Adopting a dog and going on daily walks helped reconnect her with the cycle of the year and the quiet richness of nature all around her: swifts nesting in a nearby church; ivy-leaved toadflax growing out of brick walls; the first blackbird's song; an exhilarating glimpse of a hobby over Tooting Common.
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Uplifting and depressing
- By jane joensen on 15-11-20
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The Stubborn Light of Things
- A Nature Diary
- Narrated by: Melissa Harrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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David Attenborough in His Own Words
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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David Attenborough discusses his life and achievements in this collection of BBC radio and TV interviews.
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A sincere Pleasure to listen To
- By J V Cousins on 12-06-22
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David Attenborough in His Own Words
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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The Durrells of Corfu
- By: Michael Haag
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loosely on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy and in particular his much-loved best seller, My Family and Other Animals. These books in turn are based somewhat loosely on actual events. The real-life Durrells went to Corfu at the urging of Lawrence Durrell, who was already living on the island with his wife, Nancy Myers. Their intent was to keep the family together as his mother, Louisa, was drinking heavily and recovering from a breakdown.
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Really interesting and amusing tales of the family
- By Sara on 04-01-18
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The Durrells of Corfu
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-05-17
- Language: English
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The Sea Inside
- By: Philip Hoare
- Narrated by: Philip Pope
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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In The Sea Inside, Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds and beasts. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of almost monastic escape. From there he travels to the other side of the world - the Azores, Sri Lanka, New Zealand - in search of encounters with animals and people. Navigating between human and natural history, he asks what these stories mean for us now.
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The Sea Inside
- Narrated by: Philip Pope
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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The Frayed Atlantic Edge
- A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
- By: David Gange
- Narrated by: Ed Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to south: every cove, sound, inlet, island. The story of his journey is one of staggering adventure, range and beauty. And one that reveals how the similar ingredients of wind, rock and ocean have been transformed into wildly different Atlantic cultures in coastal Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall.
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Words and place names mispronounced throughout
- By Gillian on 18-07-20
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The Frayed Atlantic Edge
- A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
- Narrated by: Ed Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-07-19
- Language: English
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Trail of the Lost
- The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
- By: Andrea Lankford
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades later, however, she stumbles across a mystery that pulls her right back where she left off: three young men have vanished from the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Bounces around incoherently
- By Adam Page on 03-07-24
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Trail of the Lost
- The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 22-08-23
- Language: English
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The Ravenmaster
- My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
- By: Christopher Skaife
- Narrated by: Christopher Skaife
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones themselves. But their role is even more important than that – legend has it that if the ravens should ever leave, the Tower will crumble into dust, and great harm will befall the kingdom.
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You'll never underestimate a raven again
- By Tandri on 17-11-18
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The Ravenmaster
- My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
- Narrated by: Christopher Skaife
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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Humble by Nature
- Life, Lambs and a Dog Called Badger
- By: Kate Humble
- Narrated by: Kate Humble
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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In 2007, after 20 years of living in London, Kate Humble and her husband Ludo decided it was time to leave city life behind them. Three years later, now the owner of a Welsh smallholding, Kate hears that a nearby farm is to be broken up and sold off. Another farm lost; another opportunity for a young farmless farmer gone. Desperate to stop the sale, Kate contacts the council with an alternative plan - to keep the farm working and to run a rural skills and animal husbandry school alongside it. Against all odds, she succeeds.
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A Brilliant Read
- By Angelina Johnson on 20-10-23
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Humble by Nature
- Life, Lambs and a Dog Called Badger
- Narrated by: Kate Humble
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-07-21
- Language: English
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- By: Jonathan Meiburg
- Narrated by: Jonathan Meiburg
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
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Querky
- By veyza on 13-09-23
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Meiburg
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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The Mourner’s Bestiary
- By: Eiren Caffall
- Narrated by: Eiren Caffall
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Author Eiren Caffall is the inheritor of a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease and the mother of a child who may inherit that legacy. A literary memoir on loss, chronic illness, and generational healing, Caffall’s The Mourner’s Bestiary is also a meditation on grief and survival told through the stories of animals in two collapsing marine ecosystems—the Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Sound—and the lives of a family facing a life-threatening illness on their shores.
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The Mourner’s Bestiary
- Narrated by: Eiren Caffall
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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The Whispering Land
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Following on from the events in A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land sees Gerald Durrell and his wife Jacquie travel to Argentina to collect animals for their newly established zoo. With rare insight and unique charm, Durrell pulls the listener into the tropical landscape of Patagonia, where he witnesses magical moments with penguins, seals and ocelots, and encounters a hilarious cast of characters, including a swearing parrot and a belching guanaco.
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Sumptuous descriptions of a bygone era
- By Anonymous User on 07-06-23
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The Whispering Land
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-01-19
- Language: English
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The Puma Years
- A Memoir
- By: Laura Coleman
- Narrated by: Laura Coleman
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. And in Wayra, she made a friend for life.
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Excellent book
- By MDriscoll on 17-01-24
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The Puma Years
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Laura Coleman
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Soundings
- Journeys in the Company of Whales
- By: Doreen Cunningham
- Narrated by: Doreen Cunningham
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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From Mexico to the Arctic ice, grey whale mothers swim with their calves. Following them, by bus, train and ferry, are Doreen and her toddler Max, in pursuit of a wild hope. Doreen first visited Alaska as a young journalist reporting on climate change among indigenous whaling communities. There, drawn deeply into an Iñupiaq family, she joined the bowhead whale hunt, watching for polar bears under the never-ending light. Years later, now a single mother living in a hostel, Doreen embarks on this extraordinary journey.
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Important and urgent
- By Tracy S. on 24-03-22
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Soundings
- Journeys in the Company of Whales
- Narrated by: Doreen Cunningham
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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A Zoo in My Luggage
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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A Zoo in My Luggage is the colorful, first-hand account of Gerald Durrell's six-month animal-collecting trip in British Cameroon, and his attempts to create his own zoo. Motivated by a passion for wildlife, and a desire to save endangered species from extinction, Durrell assembles a glorious panoply of exotic animals - including a female baboon called Georgina, who later runs amok in a department store; a black-eared squirrel, who tries to bury nuts in his ear; and a gentlemanly chimpanzee named Chumly, who greets him with an outstretched hand.
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Not so much dated as historical
- By Magyar on 15-04-19
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A Zoo in My Luggage
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 19-12-18
- Language: English
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