- Geology (115)
Bestsellers
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- By: Marco Polo
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...
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An educational experience.
- By Doug on 06-23-03
By: Marco Polo
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Reading the Rocks
- The Autobiography of the Earth
- By: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation....
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Well crafted and approachable
- By Adrian LeCesne on 06-02-24
By: Marcia Bjornerud
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- By aaron on 08-02-20
By: Lewis Dartnell
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The Gilded Age
- By: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War....
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An American classic, beautifully narrated
- By TX lilbit on 03-31-12
By: Mark Twain, and others
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
- By: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a treasure trove of answers to questions about our world.
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Errors
- By The Product Owner on 08-29-15
By: Kenneth C. Davis
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Landmarks
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place....
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Buy the book
- By Kindle Customer on 08-08-17
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- By: Marco Polo
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...
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An educational experience.
- By Doug on 06-23-03
By: Marco Polo
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Reading the Rocks
- The Autobiography of the Earth
- By: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation....
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Well crafted and approachable
- By Adrian LeCesne on 06-02-24
By: Marcia Bjornerud
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- By aaron on 08-02-20
By: Lewis Dartnell
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The Gilded Age
- By: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War....
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An American classic, beautifully narrated
- By TX lilbit on 03-31-12
By: Mark Twain, and others
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
- By: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a treasure trove of answers to questions about our world.
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Errors
- By The Product Owner on 08-29-15
By: Kenneth C. Davis
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Landmarks
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place....
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Buy the book
- By Kindle Customer on 08-08-17
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Savage Arena
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Savage Arena is both moving and exciting, an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path, endlessly seeking new challenges, climbs and difficulties to overcome. It is not reaching the summit which counts, it is the journey to it....
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Decades of inspiration
- By Anonymous User on 01-30-21
By: Joe Tasker
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
- By: John Wesley Powell
- Narrated by: Andre Stojka
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The great unknown of the Southwest is conquered by a one-armed man and his crew of adventurers, placing the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon on the map of the American continent....
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Unfortunate Narration
- By Eclipse on 03-14-17
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The Ship and the Storm
- Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome
- By: Jim Carrier
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Captain Guyan March had spent his entire professional career aboard Windjammer Barefoot Cruises’ fleet of extravagant tall ships that carry passengers on weeklong fantasy cruises spiced with rum and sun....
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More Story Then Fact
- By OceanBlue on 09-01-23
By: Jim Carrier
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Glowing Still
- A Woman's Life on the Road
- By: Sara Wheeler
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life - what is 'important, revealing or funny' - in a notoriously testosterone-laden field....
By: Sara Wheeler
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The Measure of All Things
- The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World
- By: Ken Alder
- Narrated by: Byron Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Abridged
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Amid the chaos of the French Revolution, two astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world...
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Average
- By Thomas on 04-25-03
By: Ken Alder
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Why Geography Matters
- More Than Ever
- By: Harm de Blij
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds....
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A book that needs more than just narration
- By Organic Design on 06-10-15
By: Harm de Blij
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In Some Lost Place: The First Ascent of Nanga Parbat’s Mazeno Ridge
- By: Sandy Allan
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya - the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain....
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Sandy Allan brings authenticity to this book
- By T Lou on 06-04-21
By: Sandy Allan
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Everest the Cruel Way
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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On 30 January, 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible....
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Nothing really happens
- By W. Sherer on 05-20-23
By: Joe Tasker
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Geografia
- Mega hit na maturę
- By: Adam Sochaczewski, Anna Borowicz, Karolina Wolszczak
- Narrated by: Adrian Chimiak
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Kompendium wiedzy geograficznej dla maturzystów przedstawione w sposób przejrzysty i interesujący. Chociaż w geografii bardzo ważny...
By: Adam Sochaczewski, and others
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From Here to There
- The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
- By: Michael Bond
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? How can we come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted....
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Fascinating
- By CE on 09-29-20
By: Michael Bond
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The Ogre
- Biography of a Mountain and the Dramatic Story of the First Ascent
- By: Doug Scott
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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On a July 1977 day, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival....
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Narrator not good. Annoying to listen to
- By LO on 01-14-23
By: Doug Scott
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Two Years Before the Mast
- By: Richard Henry Dana
- Narrated by: Athur Addison
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the true story of a Harvard graduate who forsook his studies for two years of the grueling life of an ordinary seaman....
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Must reading
- By Carole B. Regan on 05-14-17
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Lewis & Clark for Dummies
- By: Sammye J. Meadows, Jana Prewitt
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details of the journey that historians have gleaned from the group's journals and maps and more....
By: Sammye J. Meadows, and others
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People of the World
- Cultures and Traditions, Ancestry and Identity
- By: Catherine Herbert Howell
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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People of the World becomes a fascinating round-the-world tour of customs and traditions, as well as a go-to source for background information to round out one's own family history....
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The History and Topography of Ireland
- By: Gerald of Wales
- Narrated by: Laura Orlando
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Gerald of Wales, also called Giraldus Cambrensis or Gerald De Barri ( c. 1146-c. 1223), was the archdeacon of Brecknock and a historian whose accounts of late 12th century Britain and France contain vivid anecdotes about the Christian church....
By: Gerald of Wales
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Rough Water
- Stories of Survival from the Sea
- By: Sebastian Junger, Herman Wouk, Patrick O'Brian, and others
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Hear the riveting stories of men and women battling the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting savage storms...
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ehhh
- By Christopher on 11-13-03
By: Sebastian Junger, and others
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Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls
- True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors
- By: Edward E. Leslie
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 21 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors....
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Slow to start
- By nancy on 12-03-06
By: Edward E. Leslie
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Up and About
- The Hard Road to Everest
- By: Doug Scott
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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At dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington's epic expedition to the mountain's immense south-west face....
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interesting and engaging
- By k dawg on 02-03-23
By: Doug Scott
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Netting the Sun
- A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert (Northwest Voices Essays)
- By: Melvin R. Adams
- Narrated by: Nate Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Netting the Sun offers a carefully crafted diversity of natural and human stories from a landscape seemingly empty and forlorn to passing casual travelers....
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Beauty
- By Raoul Picante on 05-01-24
By: Melvin R. Adams
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The Flat Earth
- An Experimental Inquiry
- By: Samuel Rowbotham
- Narrated by: Don Navarre
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the original audiobook that spawned a thousand theories and is still heating up the blogosphere today. A must-have for out-of-the-box thinkers....
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Can’t listen to this voice
- By dustin on 09-01-22
By: Samuel Rowbotham
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Biogeography
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Mark V. Lomolino
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological, and behavioral variation among regional populations of a species, to geographic trends in diversity of entire communities across our planet's surface....
By: Mark V. Lomolino
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Tides
- A Climber's Voyage
- By: Nick Bullock
- Narrated by: Nick Bullock
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Tides is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one’s life to climbing....
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Insightful, humorous, a joy to listen to
- By Anonymous User on 12-20-23
By: Nick Bullock
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Great Powers and Geopolitical Change
- By: Jakub J. Grygiel
- Narrated by: C. James Moore
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, political scientist Jakub J. Grygiel brings to light the importance of incorporating geography into grand strategy....
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Great book!
- By iakovos1000 on 08-01-18
By: Jakub J. Grygiel
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Planet Earth
- An Audio Guide
- By: John Gribbin
- Narrated by: Andrea Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In this incredible expedition into the origins, workings, and evolution of our home planet, John Gribbin does what he does best: takes four and a half billion years of mind-boggling science and digs out the best bits....
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A Good Review
- By Ross on 09-10-12
By: John Gribbin