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Botany Audiobooks

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    Eating to Extinction

    The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

    by Dan Saladino ...
    Narrated by Dan Saladino ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A captivating and unexpected journey through the history of humankind's relationship with food, with an urgent message for our times.We live in an age of mass extinction. The earth's biodiversity is decreasing at a faster rate than ever. Industrial agriculture and the standardization of taste are not only wiping out many edible plants, but also the food cultures, ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Lessons from Plants

    by Beronda L. Montgomery ...
    Narrated by York Whitaker ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 7 min

    We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action. Beronda L. Montgomery explores the vigorous, creative lives of organisms ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...
    Narrated by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 44 min

    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 oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Entangled Life

    How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

    by Merlin Sheldrake ...
    Narrated by Merlin Sheldrake ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**** WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2021 **'A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland**The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Gathering Moss

    A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...
    Narrated by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Finding the Mother Tree

    Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest

    by Suzanne Simard ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Simard ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 13 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of treesNo one has done more to transform our understanding of trees than the world-renowned scientist Suzanne Simard. Now she shares the secrets of a lifetime spent uncovering startling truths about trees: their cooperation, healing capacity, memory, wisdom and sentience ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    True Hallucinations

    Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise

    by Terence McKenna ...
    Narrated by Al Kessel ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they encounter a host of unusual characters-including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirate Mantids from outer space, an appearance by ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Harry Potter: A History of Magic

    An Audio Documentary

    by Pottermore Publishing, Ben Davies ...
    Narrated by Natalie Dormer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 39 min

    The history of magic is as long as time and as wide as the world. In every culture, in every age, in every place and, probably, in every heart, there is magic.Harry Potter: A History of Magic reveals some of the hidden stories behind real-world magic and explores some of J.K. Rowling's magical inventions alongside their folkloric, cultural and historical forebears.Narrator Natalie Dormer and a ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD

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    Lives of Weeds

    Opportunism, Resistance, Folly

    by John Cardina ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Florapedia

    A Brief Compendium of Floral Lore

    by Carol Gracie ...
    Narrated by Coleen Marlo ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 19 min

    A delightful treasury of botanical facts and fancy Florapedia is an eclectic A-Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries-on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators-this collection is a captivating journey into the realm of botany ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Plant Chemicals: Tasty and Terrifying

    by Melissa Petruzzello ...
    Narrated by Melissa Petruzzello ...
    series Botanize!

    Unabridged

    27 min

    Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica delves into some of the flavourful and painful ways in which plant secondary metabolites can interact with the human body. This is part one of a two-part program and the 12th installment of the Botanize! podcast series. ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Planting Our World

    by Stefano Mancuso ...
    Narrated by David Stifel ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    It all begins and ends with plants. From the chance to live on this planet to the pleasure of listening to the sound of a violin-every story begins with a plant. We animals account for a paltry 0.3% of the planet's biomass while plants add up to 85%. It is obvious that every story on this planet has a plant as its protagonist. Our world is a green world; Earth is the planet of plants. And when, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Seaweed Chronicles

    A World at the Water’s Edge

    by Susan Hand Shetterly ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    Glimpse the wonders of a hidden world. An ancient, and vital, part of nature's ecosystem, seaweed is now emerging as an increasingly important source of food in a world faced with diminishing natural resources. In Seaweed Chronicles, acclaimed nature writer Susan Hand Shetterly opens a window into the world of this fascinating organism by providing an elegant, often poetic look at life on the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Brilliant Green

    The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

    by Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 36 min

    Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary-just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails

    by Camper English ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    Shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book AwardAn intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world’s foremost cocktail writers.Consider the Negroni. The bittersweet cocktail dating to the early 1900s is made of equal parts gin, sweet vermouth and Campari. Gin takes its name and flavour from the juniper tree, which medieval doctors burned to ward off bubonic ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Monarchs and Milkweed

    A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution

    by Anurag Agrawal ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Lost Rainforests of Britain

    by Guy Shrubsole ...
    Narrated by Guy Shrubsole ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    AS SEEN ON COUNTRYFILE The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary PrizeTemperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain, inspiring Celtic druids, Welsh wizards, Romantic poets, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s most loved cre... ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Seeds on Ice

    by Melissa Petruzzello ...
    Narrated by Melissa Petruzzello ...
    series Botanize!

    Unabridged

    14 min

    Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica and Åsmund Asdal of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault discuss crop diversity, seed banking, and the important work done by this remote facility. This is the sixth installment of the Botanize! podcast series. ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    This Is Your Mind On Plants

    Opium—Caffeine—Mescaline

    by Michael Pollan ...
    Narrated by Michael Pollan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Origin of Species

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Narrated by David Case ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 12 min

    On December 27, 1831, the young naturalist Charles Darwin left Plymouth Harbor aboard the HMS Beagle. For the next five years, he conducted research on plants and animals from around the globe, amassing a body of evidence that would culminate in one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind-the theory of evolution. Darwin presented his stunning insights in a landmark book that forever ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    As moléculas da cannabis e seu incrível impacto na saúde e na indústria

    by Pharmacology University ...
    Narrated by Lorena Diaz ...

    Unabridged

    50 min

    No seguinte audiolivro, você vai conhecer os componentes ativos da cannabis, sua estrutura química e sua função biológica, assim como os usos dessas moléculas não só a nível medicinal, mas também a nível industrial.Quando a planta de cannabis enfrenta situações de estresse, como falta de água ou mudança de temperatura, produz quatro moléculas importantes: os fenilpropanoides, os terpenos, os ... Read more

    $31.00 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Яды и проклятия. Теневая жизнь растений

    by Фез Инкрайт ...
    Narrated by Игорь Гмыза ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 32 min

    Прикоснитесь к тайному искусству ведьм и целителей древности!В этой аудиокниге собраны тайные истории о темной стороне растений, об их опасных свойствах и ядах, которые из них делают. Истории переплетаются с древними мифами, легендами, цитатами из мировой литературы и великолепными авторскими иллюстрациями. Азбука растений, предложенная автором, удобна в пользовании. Вы легко найдете растение по ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    In Search of the Canary Tree

    The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World

    by Lauren E. Oakes ...
    Narrated by Ellen Archer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming worldSeveral years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Gardener's Guide to Botany

    The biology behind the plants you love, how they grow, and what they need

    by Scott Zona ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 50 min

    Ever wonder if plants sleep or why their leaves are shaped a certain way? The inner workings of the plants you love are revealed and celebrated in this guide by botany expert Dr. Scott Zona.A Gardener’s Guide to Botany is not just another book on how to grow plants. Instead, it’s a botanical journey into what makes plants tick, delivered in layman’s terms that are easily understood and appreciated ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial