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Title: The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites

Author: Ty Gagne

Narrator: Lee Goettl

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

On a mountain somewhere above treeline, in some of the coldest and worst winter conditions imaginable, two men lie unconscious in the snow as explosive winds batter the nearby summits. In The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites, Ty Gagne masterfully lays out the events that led up to an epic and legendary rescue attempt in severe and dangerous winter conditions in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. More than a cautionary tale, it is a tribute to all the volunteers and professionals who willingly put themselves in harm's way to save lives. This is a must-listen for anyone who hikes the Whites.

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Title: Mountain Madness: Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan

Author: Clinton Crockett Peters

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan's peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and his fallout from mountain obsession, including an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano. Ultimately, the collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities?

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Title: What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make

Author: Michael J. Hathaway

Narrator: Christopher Grove

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today's mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as Michael Hathaway shows, the world-making capacities of mushrooms radically challenge this orthodoxy by revealing the lively dynamism of all forms of life. The book tells the fascinating story of one particularly prized species, the matsutake, and the astonishing ways it is silently yet powerfully shaping worlds, from the Tibetan plateau to the mushrooms' final destination in Japan. Many Tibetan and Yi people have dedicated their lives to picking and selling this mushroom—a delicacy that drives a multibillion-dollar global trade network and that still grows only in the wild, despite scientists' intensive efforts to cultivate it in urban labs. But this is far from a simple story of humans exploiting a passive, edible commodity. Rather, the book reveals the complex, symbiotic ways that mushrooms, plants, humans, and other animals interact. It explores how the world looks to the mushrooms. A surprise-filled journey into science and human culture, this exciting and provocative book shows how fungi shape our planet and our lives in strange, diverse, and often unimaginable ways.

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Title: Meat Me Halfway: How Changing the Way We Eat Can Improve Our Lives and Save Our Planet

Author: Brian Kateman

Narrator: Pete Cross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: April 22, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. Ask anyone in the plant-based movement and the solution seems obvious: stop eating meat. But, for many people, that stark solution is neither appealing nor practical. In Meat Me Halfway, author and founder of the reducetarian movement Brian Kateman puts forth a realistic and balanced goal: mindfully reduce your meat consumption. It might seem strange for a leader of the plant-based movement to say, but meat is here to stay. The question is not how to ween society off meat but how to make meat more healthy, more humane, and more sustainable. In this book, Kateman answers the question that has plagued vegans for years: why are we so resistant to changing the way we eat, and what can we do about it? Exploring our historical relationship with meat, from the domestication of animals to the early industrialization of meatpacking, to the advent of the one-stop grocery store, the science of taste, and the laws that impact our access to food, Meat Me Halfway reveals how humans have evolved as meat-eaters. Featuring interviews with pioneers in the science of meat alternatives, investigations into new types of farming designed to lessen environmental impact, and innovations in ethical and sustainable agriculture, this down-to-earth book shows that we all can change the way we create and consume food.

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Title: Go Gently: Actionable Steps to Nurture Yourself and the Planet

Author: Bonnie Wright

Narrator: Bonnie Wright

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Release date: April 19, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

An inspiring and approachable tip-filled guide to changing your habits, living more sustainably, and taking action, by Greenpeace ambassador Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter movies) Go Gently is a guide for sustainability at home that offers simple, tangible steps toward reducing our environmental impact by looking at what we consume and the waste we create, as well as how to take action for environmental change. The title reflects Bonnie Wright’s belief that the best way to change our planet and ourselves is through a gentle approach, rather than a judgmental one. This is a book of do’s rather than don’ts. It’s also an invitation to Wright’s followers to join her on this journey to sustainability. Going through every room in her home, Wright helps us assess which products are sustainable, and alternatives for those that are not. She shares recipes to avoid waste, homemade self-care products to avoid packaging, small space-friendly gardening ideas, and a template for creating your own compost system. Finally, to sustain yourself, there are exercises and meditation prompts to keep you energized, plus info on how to get involved in community and organizations. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Title: Ocean Waves

Author: Nature Sounds Therapy

Narrator: The Sound Of The Ocean

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The sound of the ocean: A hammock for the soul. Ocean sounds (without music) for relaxation of both body and mind. With this audiobook, experience the ocean like on a starry holiday night. The sound of the ocean - with 360 minutes of ocean sounds, recorded on the island of Aruba, with state-of-the-art recording technology. Gentle to powerful ocean sounds, perfect for use in wellness and meditation, for radio/film/television, or soft background noise. Listening to this recording instantly ensures considerable inner peace and can also have a very helpful effect on tinnitus. The feeling of endlessness and the power of the waves have always fascinated mankind. Immerse yourself in a world of limitless relaxation.

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Title: [German] - Vogelstimmen im Wald: Sanfte Naturgeräusche zum Einschlafen, Entspannen, Meditieren

Author: Naturgeräusche Archiv Potsdam

Narrator: Naturgeräusche Archiv Potsdam

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Vogelstimmen im Wald, Gesamtlaufzeit: Über 12 Stunden! Erlebe friedvolle Naturgeräusche in exzellenter Audioqualität. Die Aufnahmen wurden mit modernstem Equipment in den Wäldern Europas (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Schweden, Italien) aufgenommen. Vogelstimmen können beruhigende Empfindungen auslösen, die unseren Pulsschlag senken und den Geist nachhaltig zur Ruhe bringen. Genieße den sanften Wind in den Baumkronen, das Blätterrauschen, die Stimmen der Singvögel am Morgen und in der Dämmerung. All das eignet sich ganz wunderbar zum Lernen, Entspannen, Meditieren oder Einschlafen. ***** Was Du mit diesem Hörbuch NICHT bekommst: Störende Nebengeräusche von Flugzeugen, Menschen oder Autos. Genau das unterscheidet dieses Premium-Hörbuch von allen anderen Angeboten im Netz! ***** In der Hörprobe werden mehrere Stücke aus diesem Premium-Hörbuch kurz angespielt. — Über die Autorin: Die gebürtige Osnabrückerin Yella A. Deeken ist mit Leidenschaft Autorin, Musikerin und Weltenbummlerin. Seit 2004 reist sie im Auftrag des Archivs für Naturgeräusche (Potsdam) um die Welt und sammelt auf ihren Reisen wundervolle Klanglandschaften, die berühren, inspirieren und das Leben vieler Menschen nachhaltig verändern.

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Title: Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure

Author: Susan Fox Rogers

Narrator: Rosemary Benson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Release date: April 15, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

'The thrill of quiet adventure. The constant hope of discovery. The reminder that the world is filled with wonder. When I bird, life is bigger, more vibrant.' That is why Susan Fox Rogers is a birder. Learning the Birds is the story of how encounters with birds recharged her adventurous spirit. When the birds first called, Rogers was in a slack season of her life. The woods and rivers that enthralled her younger self had lost some of their luster. It was the song of a thrush that reawakened Rogers, sparking a long-held desire to know the birds that accompanied her as she rock climbed and paddled, to know the world around her with greater depth. Energized by her curiosity, she followed the birds as they drew her deeper into her authentic self, and ultimately into love. In Learning the Birds, we join Rogers as she becomes a birder and joins the community of passionate and quirky bird people. We meet her birding companions close to home in New York State's Hudson Valley as well as in the desert of Arizona and awash in the midnight sunlight of Alaska. Along on the journey are birders and estimable ornithologists of past generations—people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Florence Merriam Bailey—whose writings inspire Rogers's adventures and discoveries.

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Title: Field Notes from a Waterborne Land: Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok

Author: Parimal Bhattacharya

Narrator: Anindya Chakravorty

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Release date: April 13, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

In the late 2000s, when the three-decade-long Left Front rule in West Bengal was crumbling, Parimal Bhattacharya began to travel outside the well-trodden urban centres to different parts of the region - from the Sundarbans to tribal Jangalmahal, from the outskirts of Kolkata to villages on the Bangladesh border, from the floodplains of the Hooghly to the forests of Simlipal in neighbouring Odisha. There, he encountered: a woman who was branded a witch because she was listed in the census as literate; an island that vanished famously, only to resurface; a paralysed communist who dreams about the death of a river; a forest community who believe they are descendants of the Harappans; an old millworker and his wife who fight the ghosts of a dead industrial town with laughter; a fisherman uprooted by a river eleven times in twenty years; and many more. This book documents the missing narratives of these 'other' Bengalis, the largely invisible majority beyond the bhadralok that the rest of India knows. Moving between the personal and the political, and between travelogue, journal and memoir, Field Notes from a Waterborne Land takes the reader on a journey across a fascinating land peopled with unforgettable characters.

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Title: Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future

Author: Daniel S. Cohan

Narrator: Ray Greenley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Release date: April 12, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

An atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy Professor of environmental engineering Daniel Cohan argues that escaping the gravest perils of climate change will first require American diplomacy, technological innovation, and policy to catalyze decarbonization globally. Combining his own expertise along with insights from more than a hundred interviews with diplomats, scholars, and clean-technology pioneers, Cohan identifies flaws in previous efforts to combat climate change. He highlights opportunities for more successful strategies, including international 'climate clubs' and accelerated development of clean energy technologies. Grounded in history and emerging scholarship, this book offers a forward-looking vision of solutions to confronting climate gridlock and a clear-eyed recognition of the challenges to enacting them.