American Environment

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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    • In Search of a Lost Icon
    • By: Steven Rinella
    • Narrated by: Steven Rinella
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,119 ratings
    • Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos....

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    • New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
    • Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,742 ratings
    • A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492....

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    • How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
    • By: Douglas W. Tallamy, Rick Darke - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • Bringing Nature Home has sparked a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human well-being, and this audio edition will help broaden the movement. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical recommendations, everyone can make a difference....

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    • An Environmental History of the American West (Environment and Region in the American West)
    • By: Sara Dant
    • Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as “Eden” and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years....

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    • Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
    • By: David Gessner
    • Narrated by: Brian O'Neil
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • A homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it....

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    • By: Barry Lopez
    • Narrated by: Barry Lopez
    • Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • National Book Award winner Barry Lopez treks through the American Southwest and Alaska, discovering new meanings in both the world of nature - geese flying, wolf tracks - and the world of humans...

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    • The Fight for Our Local Seafood
    • By: Paul Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Best-selling author of Four Fish Paul Greenberg looks to New York oysters, gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to tell the surprising story of why Americans no longer eat from local waters....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11,235 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
    • By: Dan Flores
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,643 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
    • By: Jill Jonnes
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Urban Forests tells the captivating stories of the founding mothers and fathers of urban forestry, in addition to those arboreal advocates presently using the latest technologies to illuminate the value of trees to public health and to our urban infrastructure....

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    • An Environmental History
    • By: Donald Edward Davis
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. An important natural resource, chestnut wood was preferred for woodworking, fencing, and building construction, as it was rot resistant and straight grained....

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    • The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
    • By: Nick Offerman
    • Narrated by: Nick Offerman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,372 ratings
    • A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times best-selling author Nick Offerman....

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    • The American West and Its Disappearing Water
    • By: Marc Reisner
    • Narrated by: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
    • Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....

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    • The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
    • By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions and a call for environmentalists to learn from the indigenous community’s rich history of activism....

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    • God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
    • By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
    • Narrated by: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
    • Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming....

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    • Climate Change and the Next American Migration
    • By: Jake Bittle
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming worsens over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world, fleeing famine and rising seas.

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    • The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Jacob York
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows....

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