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Rivers Audiobooks

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    Underland

    A Deep Time Journey

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Shortlisted for the Best Nonfiction Audiobook at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st C... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    To the River

    A Journey beneath the Surface

    by Olivia Laing ...
    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore.Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape—and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Ganges

    The Many Pasts of an Indian River

    by Sudipta Sen ...
    Narrated by Neil Shah ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 36 min

    A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora. Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to the merchants that ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Cracked

    The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World

    by Steven Hawley ...
    Narrated by Steven Hawley, Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed.During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the whole messy truth about the legacy of last century’s big dam building binge has come to light. What started out as an arguably good government project has drifted oceans away from that original virtuous intent. Governments plugged the nation’s rivers in a misguided attempt to turn them ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Cornerstone at the Confluence

    Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century

    Narrated by Graham Rowat ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    Signed on November 24, 1922, the Colorado River Compact is body of laws colloquially called the "Law of the River" that governs how human beings use water from the river system dubbed the "American Nile." No fewer than forty million people have come to rely on the Colorado River system in modern times-a system immersed in an unprecedented, unrelenting megadrought for more than two decades. ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Goodbye to a River

    A Narrative

    by John Graves ...
    Narrated by Henry Strozier ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 28 min

    A classic from the Lone Star State, John Graves' Goodbye to a River is a poignant narrative of one man's journey by canoe down the river of his memories. Along the way, he describes the colorful Texas landscape and recounts its rich history. When Graves learns that the river he knew and loved as a youth-the Brazos in north-central Texas-is slated to be dammed at multiple points, he understands ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Song for the River

    by Philip Connors ...
    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 43 min

    From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season―a story of calamity and resilience in the world’s first wilderness.A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness to the blaze he had always feared: a megafire that forced him off his mountain by helicopter and forever changed the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Elixir

    In the Valley at the End of Time

    by Kapka Kassabova ...

    Unabridged

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe and a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, plants and place**Over several seasons, Kassabova spends time with the people of this magical region. She meets women and men who work in a long lineage of foragers, ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Year in a Ditch, A

    Exploring the history, wildlife and conservation of a ditch

    by J C Jeremy Hobson ...
    Narrated by Ronnie Rowlands ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 6 min

    Rivers, canals, and many glorious waterways are championed and admired at every opportunity. Sadly, not so the humble ditch, yet they are the all-important capillaries supplying the veins of our far more visual watercourses.In no way a dry riverbed of hard facts, A Year in a Ditch is informative and a source of knowledge to anyone interested in exploring the delights and habitat created by ditches ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Kings of the Yukon

    An Alaskan River Journey

    by Adam Weymouth ...
    Narrated by Charlie Anson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Kings of the Yukon by Andy Weymouth, read by Charlie Anson.The Yukon river is over 2,000 miles long, flowing northwest from Canada through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Every summer, hundreds of thousands of King salmon migrate the distance of this river to their spawning grounds, where they breed and die, in what is the longest salmon ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rivers

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nick Middleton ...
    Narrated by John Leistner ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 31 min

    Rivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be a barrier or a highway, it can support trade and sediment, culture and conflict. This Very Short Introduction is a celebration of rivers in all their diversity. Geographer Nick Middleton covers a wide and eclectic range of river-based themes, from physical geography to mythology, to industrial history and literary ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Breakpoint

    Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises

    by Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Steve Chapple ...
    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems ravaging the United States. Along their journey, which quickly expands to California, Florida, and New York, the pair uncovered surprising and profound ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The River You Touch

    Making a Life on Moving Water

    by Chris Dombrowski ...
    Narrated by Jeffrey Foucault ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    **“We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us.” —**from The River You TouchWhen Chris Dombrowski burst onto the literary scene with Body of Water, the book was acclaimed as “a classic” (Jim ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Ice Rivers

    by Jemma Wadham ...
    Narrated by Jemma Wadham ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The ice sheets and glaciers that currently cover one-tenth of the planet's land surface are today in grave peril. Locked up within them is a vast proportion of Earth's freshwater - but the ice is fast melting as our climate warms at an accelerating rate. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying; meanwhile, in Antarctica ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Eric Sloane's Weather Book

    by Eric Sloane ...
    Narrated by Chris Mattews ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 42 min

    "Amateur weather forecasters (which includes just about everyone) will find this volume an informative and entertaining account of the why and how of the weather." — The Nation In simple language, Eric Sloane explains the whys and wherefores of weather and weather forecasting — and does it in a style that's universally appealing. With humor and common sense shining through in a book that's also ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Wind, Sturm & Regengeräusche: Beruhigende, wohltuende Naturgeräusche für Stressbewältigung & Stressabbau

    Über 9 Stunden mit und ohne Musik zum Entspannen, Einschlafen, Meditieren (XXL-Bundle)

    by Institut für Stressabbau, Institut für Stressabbau ...
    Narrated by Institut für Stressabbau ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 43 min

    ***** Über 11 Stunden Naturgeräusche pur: Wind, Sturm, Gewittergeräusche, Regentropfen, mit und ohne Musik. ***** Ideal zum Entspannen, Einschlafen, Konzentrieren oder Ausruhen. Dieses Hörbuch bietet dir volle neun Stunden beruhigende Naturgeräusche zur Entspannung. ***** Inhalt: 11 Melodien aus der Natur - aufgenommen mit hochmoderner Aufnahmetechnik, in einzigartiger Audioqualität. Zusätzlich 7 ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Overrun

    Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis

    by Andrew Reeves ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 26 min

    Politicians, ecologists, and government wildlife officials are fighting a desperate rearguard action to halt the onward reach of Asian Carp, four troublesome fish now within a handful of miles from entering Lake Michigan. From aquaculture farms in Arkansas to the bayous of Louisiana; from marshlands in Indiana to labs in Minnesota; and from the Illinois River to the streets of Chicago where the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Field Notes from a Waterborne Land

    Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok

    by Parimal Bhattacharya ...
    Narrated by Anindya Chakravorty ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rag and Bone

    A Family History of What We've Thrown Away

    by Lisa Woollett ...
    Narrated by Karen Cass ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and, through it, our history of consumption.In a series of beachcombing and mudlarking walks - beginning in the Thames in central London, then out to the Kentish estuary and ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Casting Shadows: Fish and Fishing in Britain

    by Tom Fort ...
    Narrated by Paul Hilliar ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearPeer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams.From cunning Neolithic traps, intricate Roman nets and quarrellous Victorian societies to the evolution of angling and eventual gentrification of river access, this history spans thousands of years and ends with ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Holding Back the River

    The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways

    by Tyler J. Kelley ...
    Narrated by Samantha Desz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers.The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rivers of Power

    How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World

    by Laurence C. Smith ...
    Narrated by Victor Bevine ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Rivers, more than any road, technology or political event, have shaped the course of civilization.In Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith tells the sweeping story of rivers and how they made us. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined borders, supported trade, generated energy and fed billions. Most of our greatest cities stand on river banks or deltas, and our ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Riverman: An American Odyssey

    by Ben McGrath ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 36 min

    ‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert ‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma StraubRiverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America’s riverbank towns.‘The peace of mind I found, largely alone, on that white-water mecca convinced me that life was capable of exquisite pleasure and ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Science Be Dammed

    How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River

    by Eric Kuhn, John Fleck ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management-and perils in the mismanagement-of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evidence was available that the Colorado River could not sustain ambitious dreaming and planning by decision-makers throughout the twentieth century, river planners and political operatives irresponsibly ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial