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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- De: Jonathan Meiburg
- Narrado por: Jonathan Meiburg
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 631
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 538
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 535
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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5 out of 5 stars
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I don't leave reviews often, but . . .
- De Steven L Peck en 06-24-21
De: Jonathan Meiburg
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Coyote America
- A Natural and Supernatural History
- De: Dan Flores
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,834
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,368
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,369
Coyote America is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the "wolf" in our backyards and its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Enjoyable Book, Subject Matter, and Reader
- De John Townsend en 03-17-17
De: Dan Flores
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First Peoples in a New World
- Colonizing Ice Age America
- De: David J. Meltzer
- Narrado por: Christopher Prince
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Last Gasp of American Anthropological Orthodoxy
- De Thomas66 en 01-05-17
De: David J. Meltzer
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The Wonder of Birds
- What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
- De: Jim Robbins
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically, draw us out into nature to seek their beauty, and let us experience vicariously what it is like to be weightless. Birds have helped us in so many of our human endeavors: learning to fly, providing clothing and food, and helping us better understand the human brain and body.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stories about birds with something for everyone
- De D en 07-24-17
De: Jim Robbins
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The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to exotic creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. In The Galapagos, science writer Henry Nicholls offers a lively natural and human history of the archipelago, charting its evolution from deserted wilderness to scientific resource (made famous by Charles Darwin) and global ecotourism hot spot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought-Provoking
- De Jean en 10-23-18
De: Henry Nicholls
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No Beast So Fierce
- The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History
- De: Dane Huckelbridge
- Narrado por: Corey Snow
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 315
American Sniper meets Jaws in this gripping true account of the deadliest animal of all time, the Champawat Tiger - responsible for killing more than 400 humans in Northern India and Nepal in the first decade of the 20th century - and the legendary hunter who finally brought it down.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needed more tiger
- De RealWoman8 en 03-18-19
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Wild Ones
- A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Jon Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The line between conservation and domestication...
- De Bonny en 04-02-14
De: Jon Mooallem
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Feathers
- The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Andy Ingalls
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 150
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: Aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Science and Fun
- De Chris Reich en 12-28-14
De: Thor Hanson
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Superlative
- The Biology of Extremes
- De: Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,375
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,932
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,912
In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- De Daniel Powell en 09-16-18
De: Steve Brusatte
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How to Read Nature
- An Expert's Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
- De: Tristan Gooley
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His message is to connect - however we can and to whatever draws us in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fool sees not the same tree a wise man sees
- De Mark A Bleakley en 08-07-18
De: Tristan Gooley
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American Serengeti
- The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
- De: Dan Flores
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,612
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,421
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,419
America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than 200 years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could have been great, but
- De An Amazon Buyer en 08-29-18
De: Dan Flores
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The Bald Eagle
- The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I thought the book would be about the bald eagle
- De An Amazon Buyer en 10-25-22
De: Jack E. Davis
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The Quiet World
- Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 23 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
A riveting history of America's most beautiful natural resources, The Quiet World documents the heroic fight waged by the U.S. federal government from 1879 to 1960 to save wild Alaska - ;Mount McKinley, the Tongass and Chugach national forests, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Lake Clark, and the Coastal Plain of the Beaufort Sea, among other treasured landscapes - from the extraction industries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Where are Native Alaskans?
- De Peggy en 11-13-14
De: Douglas Brinkley
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The Wilderness Warrior
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 40 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 211
In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I DID keep listening
- De Susan Gardner Bowers en 01-13-10
De: Douglas Brinkley
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The Thing with Feathers
- The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
- De: Noah Strycker
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, and other mysteries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, terrible reader
- De MGM123 en 03-16-18
De: Noah Strycker