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Title: The Appalachian Trail: A Biography

Author: Philip D'anieri

Narrator: Jason Culp

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Release date: June 8, 2021

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The Appalachian Trail is America’s most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped bring it to life over the past century. The conception and building of the Appalachian Trail is a story of unforgettable characters who explored it, defined it, and captured national attention by hiking it. From Grandma Gatewood—a mother of eleven who thru-hiked in canvas sneakers and a drawstring duffle—to Bill Bryson, author of the best-selling A Walk in the Woods, the AT has seized the American imagination like no other hiking path. The 2,000-mile-long hike from Georgia to Maine is not just a trail through the woods, but a set of ideas about nature etched in the forest floor. This character-driven biography of the trail is a must-read not just for ambitious hikers, but for anyone who wonders about our relationship with the great outdoors and dreams of getting away from urban life for a pilgrimage in the wild.

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Title: [Arabic] - ولدن

Author: ديفيد هنري ثورو

Narrator: كريم مسعد

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Release date: April 5, 2021

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

صدر حديثا عن دار العين للنشر كتاب 'ولدن' تأليف ديفيد هنرى ثورو، وترجمة هالة صلاح الدين، ويتناول الكتاب رؤية فلسفية عن كيف يقضى الإنسان حياته ما بين الواقع والحلم. ويقول ديفيد هنرى، في كتابه: 'إلى متى سنجلس في أروقتنا المُعَمَّدة، نمارس فضائل بالية عديمة الجدوى، أي عمل سيجعل لا صلة لها بالموضوع المتناول؟ وكأن المرء سيستهل يومه بالصبر على احتمال الأذى ويوظف رجلًا لعزق بطاطسه، وفي الظهيرة يذهب لممارسة الحِلْم والإحسان المسيحيين على حين ينتوي تعمد الخير! تفكَّر في الفخر الصيني ورضا البشرية الراكد عن ذاتها، يتكئ هذا الجيل قليلًا ليهنئ نفسه على أنه آخر سلالة شهيرة، وفي بوسطن ولندن وباريس وروما يفكر في نَسَبه المديد، ويتحدث عن تطوره في الفن والعلم والأدب بلهجة متقدة الحماسة. هناك 'سجلات المجتمعات الفلسفية' والمديح العام لرجال عظماء، آدم الطيب يتأمل فضيلته، 'أجل، لقد أنجزنا مآثر عظيمة، وغنينا أغانٍ في منتهى الروعة، لن تموت قط طالما يسعنا تذكرها. المجتمعات المثقفة ورجال آشورية العظماء أين هم؟ أي فلاسفة وتجريبيين شبان نحن! لا يوجد واحد من قرائي عاش حياة إنسانية كاملة بعد، علها ليست إلا شهور الربيع في حياة الجنس البشري. لو أصابتنا حكة السنة السابعة، فنحن لم نر جراد السنة السابعة عشرة بعد في كونكورد، لسنا مطلعين إلا على غشاء الكون الرقيق الذي نعيش عليه، لم ينقب أغلب الناس ست أقدام أسفل السطح، ولا قفزوا ست أقدام عليه، نجهل موقعنا، بالإضافة إلى أننا نغط في النوم نصف حياتنا تقريبًا، ومع ذلك نعتبر أنفسنا حكماء، ولدينا نظام راسخ على السطح، إننا حقًا مفكرون عميقون إننا أرواح طموح!

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Title: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

Author: Timothy Egan

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Release date: August 28, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in an eyeblink. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men -- college boys, day-workers, immigrants from mining camps -- to fight the fires. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, through the eyes of the people who lived it. Equally dramatic, though, is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. The robber barons fought him and the rangers charged with protecting the reserves, but even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by those same rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today. THE BIG BURN tells an epic story, paints a moving portrait of the people who lived it, and offers a critical cautionary tale for our time.

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Title: Decoding Your Cat: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Cat Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones

Author: American College Of Veterinary Beha

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Release date: July 21, 2020

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The cutting-edge, scientifically accurate, definitive book on the most popular behavioral issues that cats face In the United States, one of the predominant reasons that owners abandon or give up their pets (often leading to euthanasia) is because of unwanted behaviors. Many have tried to instruct proper cat training, but this is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth understanding of the underlying reasons for a cat’s problem behavior, the essential key to unlocking the best for your cat and avoiding pitfalls. Decoding Your Cat gives owners new insight on promoting their cat’s physical and psychological health and wellness and maintaining a long and fulfilling relationship together.  Written by the leading experts in cat behavior from the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists, with an introduction by animal expert Steve Dale, this book conveys the newest and best information on cat behavioral science in a fun, interesting, and understandable way. Together with anecdotes from real life situations and the science behind how cats relate to their world, Decoding Your Cat empowers owners to provide a home environment that is happy, safe, and functional, to identify and seek treatment for medical health problems, to understand how to deal with unwanted behaviors, and in general to help cats live longer and fuller lives.   Narrated by Lisa Flanagan. Lisa Flanagan is an award-winning narrator, voice actor, stage director, improviser, opera librettist and classical singer. Her VO work includes animation, video games, and commercials. Lisa has received multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, Voice Arts Awards, and the 2019 Audie Award winner for Fantasy (Spinning Silver). She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her cats.

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Title: White Feathers: The Nesting Lives of Tree Swallows

Author: Bernd Heinrich

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Release date: February 18, 2020

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The surprising, rich life of tree swallows in nesting season—with Heinrich’s beautiful illustrations and photographs—by the acclaimed naturalist. Heinrich is sparked one early spring day by a question: Why does a pair of swallows in a nest-box close to his Maine cabin show an unvarying preference for white feathers—not easily available nearby—as nest lining? He notices, too, the extreme aggressiveness of “his” swallows toward some other swallows of their own kind. And he wonders, given swallows’ reputation for feistiness, at the extraordinary tameness and close contact he experiences with his nesting birds. From the author of the beloved books Ravens in Winter and A Naturalist at Large, this richly engaging view of the lives of wild birds, as always with Heinrich, yields “marvelous, mind-altering” insight and discoveries. —Los Angeles Times Narrator Rick Adamson is proud to have presented several titles from author Bernd Heinrich. He is an Audie Award winner for his voicing of IN A HEARTBEAT, from the authors of the true story that became the film THE BLIND SIDE.  Around NYC and his home studio in New Jersey, he has worked in commercials, corporate and medical media, as well as educational content worldwide, for more than thirty years.

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Title: Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

Author: Bernd Heinrich

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Release date: February 18, 2020

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

From one of the finest naturalists and writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycle. How does the animal world deal with death? And what ecological and spiritual lessons can we learn from examining this? Bernd Heinrich has long been fascinated by these questions, and when a good friend with a terminal illness asked if he might have his “green burial” at Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist and author to investigate. Life Everlasting is the fruit of those investigations, illuminating what happens to animals great and small after death. From beetles to bald eagles, ravens to wolves, Heinrich reveals the fascinating and mostly hidden post-death world that occurs around us constantly, while examining the ancient and important role we too play as scavengers, connecting death to life. “Bernd Heinrich is one of the finest naturalists of our time. Life Everlasting shines with the authenticity and originality that are unique to a life devoted to natural history in the field.”—Edward O. Wilson, author of The Future of Life and The Social Conquest of Earth ''Despite focusing on death and decay, Life Everlasting is far from morbid; instead, it is life-affirming . . . convincing the reader that physical demise is not an end to life, but an opportunity for renewal.''—Nature “A worldwide tour of the role of death in nature that is consistently fascinating and fun to read.”—Seattle Times

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Title: The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration

Author: Bernd Heinrich

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Release date: February 18, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

A captivating exploration of the homing instinct in animals, and what it means for human happiness and survival, from the celebrated naturalist and author of Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, and Life Everlasting. Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans of this deep-in-the-bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing? Heinrich explores the fascinating science chipping away at the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish to insects to amphibians, to pinpoint their home if they are displaced from it; and how the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances. Most movingly, Heinrich chronicles the spring return of a pair of sandhill cranes to their home pond in the Alaska tundra. With his trademark “marvelous, mind-altering” prose (Los Angeles Times), he portrays the unmistakable signs of deep psychological emotion in the newly arrived birds—and reminds us that to discount our own emotions toward home is to ignore biology itself.

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Title: The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Author: Boyd Varty

Narrator: Boyd Varty

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Release date: October 22, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Somewhere deep inside, you know what your gift, purpose, and mission are. Boyd Varty, a lion tracker and life coach, reveals how the wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize these essential ingredients in a meaningful life. Know how to navigate, don’t worry about the destination, and stay alert. These are just a few of the strategies that contribute to both successful lion tracking and a life of fulfillment. When we join Boyd Varty and his two friends tracking lions, we are immersed in the South African bush, and, although we learn some of the skills required for actual tracking, the takeaways are the strategies that can be applied to our everyday lives. Trackers learn how to use all of their senses to read the environment and enter into a state of “greater aliveness.” When we learn to find and follow our inner tracks, we learn to see what is deeply important to us. In the same way the trip in the classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a vehicle to examine how to live out our values, the story of this one-day adventure—with danger and suspense along the way—uses the ancient art of tracking to convey profound lessons on how to live a purposeful, meaningful life of greater harmony.

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Title: Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay

Author: Julie Zickefoose

Narrator: Julie Zickefoose

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2019

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

For fans of Wesley the Owl and The Soul of an Octopus, the story of a sick baby bird nursed back to health and into the wild by renowned writer/artist Julie Zickefoose. When Jemima, a young orphaned blue jay, is brought to wildlife rehabilitator Julie Zickefoose, she is a virtually tailless, palm-sized bundle of gray-blue fluff. But she is starved and very sick. Julie’s constant care brings her around, and as Jemima is raised for eventual release, she takes over the house and the rest of the author's summer.   Shortly after release, Jemima turns up with a deadly disease. But medicating a free-flying wild bird is a challenge. When the PBS show Nature expresses interest in filming Jemima, Julie must train her to behave on camera, as the bird gets ever wilder. Jemima bonds with a wild jay, stretching her ties with the family. Throughout, Julie grapples with the fallout of Jemima’s illness, studies molt and migration, and does her best to keep Jemima strong and wild. She falls hard for this engaging, feisty and funny bird, a creative muse and source of strength through the author’s own heartbreaking changes. Emotional and honest, Saving Jemima is a universal story of the communion between a wild creature and the human chosen to raise it. Read by the author.

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Title: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

Author: Catherine Johnson, Temple Speaker Grandin

Narrator: Andrea Gallo, Temple Speaker Grandin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2019

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life—on their terms, not ours. It’s usually easy to pinpoint the cause of physical pain in animals, but to know what is causing them emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals. Then she explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals. Whether it’s how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures. Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience. This is essential reading for anyone who’s ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal.