The Ragged Edge of the World
Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous People Meet
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Eugene Linden
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Award-winning journalist Eugene Linden has written numerous critically acclaimed works on the environment. In The Ragged Edge of the World, Linden recounts his experiences in locales ranging from Vietnam to Antarctica, offering an intimate look at creatures and cultures struggling to adapt to globalization.
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- De Bonny en 04-02-14
De: Jon Mooallem
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- De: Douglas Preston
- Narrado por: Bill Mumy
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Still Lost...
- De Mel en 01-12-17
De: Douglas Preston
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The Dragon Behind the Glass
- A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
- De: Emily Voigt
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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A young man is murdered for his prized pet fish. An Asian tycoon buys a single specimen for $150,000. Meanwhile, a pet detective chases smugglers through the streets of New York. Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator dating to the age of the dinosaurs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for all fish professionals.
- De Fishgen en 06-26-16
De: Emily Voigt
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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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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Remarkable Creatures
- Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
- De: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrado por: Jim Bond
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 139
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Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures. How did we learn so much so quickly? Remarkable Creatures celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the even more remarkable real story of how our world evolved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Remarkable Journey
- De Michael Dowd en 03-22-09
De: Sean B. Carroll
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Coyote America
- A Natural and Supernatural History
- De: Dan Flores
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,923
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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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The Wilderness Warrior
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 40 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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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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In Search of the Canary Tree
- The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
- De: Lauren E. Oakes
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Several 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 and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving and inspiring
- De Catherine A Gould en 05-26-19
De: Lauren E. Oakes
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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
- The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
- De: Mike Shanahan
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers, rain forest royalty, more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps and Stranglers tells their amazing story. Fig trees fed our prehuman ancestors, influenced diverse cultures, and played key roles in the dawn of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible research in a wonderful story
- De Alonsa Guevara en 11-24-22
De: Mike Shanahan
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The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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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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Around the World in 50 Years
- My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
- De: Albert Podell
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him - two to disease, one to the Vietcong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Adventure
- De CJ en 09-12-18
De: Albert Podell
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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 Good Rain
- Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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White man bad, capitalism bad
- De Forget about it en 04-15-21
De: Timothy Egan
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Poached
- Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
- De: Rachel Love Nuwer
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Our insatiable demand for animals - for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur - is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Rachel Nuwer, an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology, takes listeners on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to 10 countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving the demand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Annie en 11-30-18
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain
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The Gulf
- The Making of an American Sea
- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 429
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 372
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Decolonize gulf history
- De Jesse Carr en 05-02-18
De: Jack E. Davis
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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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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- dd440
- 04-27-18
Narration
Really enjoyed the narrator's tone and cadence. Added gravity and patina to the author's writing.
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- Sil A.
- 09-03-21
Fascinating information / odd narration
This is a fascinating book from an author who combines scholarship with field experience. If you are interested in the environment and like travelogues you will enjoy this book. The narrator has a great voice and is very clear. He’s just a bit slow at times making listening a bit odd, but nothing that kept me from enjoying the story. I learned so much from this book. A lot has happened since it was published in 2012, all confirming the authors analysis, so instead of dated the book sounds prophetic at times — sadly so.
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