The Outdoors & Nature category has 284 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 2,023 ratings. The most-rated is American Buffalo.
Beyond Catch & Release
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Will fly fishing survive the 21st century? Author and angler Paul Guernsey argues that angling and the natural resources it depends upon - clear rivers, unpolluted oceans, and much more - are threatened by a host of increasingly complex social and environmental factors.
©2011 Paul Guernsey (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Last Blue Mountain
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"When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh". The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them. The group’s efforts to return to safety are increasingly desperate, hampered by injury, exhaustion, and the loss of vital climbing gear. Against the odds, Jillott and Emery manage to climb out of the snow basin and head for camp, hoping to reach food, water, and assistance in time to save themselves and their companions from an icy grave. But another cruel twist of fate awaits them. An acclaimed mountaineering classic in the same genre as Joe Simpson's Touching the Void, Ralph Barker’s The Last Blue Mountain is an epic tale of friendship and fortitude in the face of tragedy.
©2020 Ralph Barker (P)2020 Vertebrate Publishing
Fishing
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This bundle includes four books, Bass Fishing: The Hot to Catch Bass Fish Guide, Bass Fishing: American Secrets and Locations to Catch Freshwater Fish, Fly Fishing: Guide of 50 Tips to Catch Fish with Flies, and Fly Fishing: 50 Extra Tips to Fish for Salmon and Trout.
©2017 Joe Steender (P)2017 Joe Steender
Walk Sleep Repeat
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The continued musings of a hapless wanderer. Younger than Bill Bryson, smaller than Levison Wood, and hairier than Julia Bradbury. In his latest adventure, our bumbling yet affable narrator walks the 100 miles of the stunning and dramatic West Highland Way. Join him on a memorable hike that takes in all the splendour of the Scottish Highlands. With grand imposing scenery and beautiful shimmering lochs. Mountain peaks, midges, Highland Cows, Irn-Bru, turnip pizzas, waterfalls, wild open moors and going to increasingly bizarre lengths to avoid sleeping in a tent. If you like the sound of any of these things, then this is undoubtedly the audiobook for you.
©2019 Stephen Reynolds (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd
The Canadian Rockies: Waterton Lakes National Park
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Waterton Lakes National Park is a place "where the mountains meet the prairie," a unique juxtaposition of prairie flatlands and some of the most ancient mountains in the Canadian Rockies. Protecting 203 square miles in the southwest corner of Alberta, the park is bordered by British Columbia on the west, Montana to the south and to the north and east by forest and private lands. A World Heritage Site, Waterton Lakes National Park and Montana's Glacier National Park are designated as the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, a symbol of peace and goodwill between Canada and the United States and a partnership of shared resources. The author grew up in the Canadian Rockies and has been exploring them since she was a child. The Canadian Rockies are one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, with four million visitors annually. Easily accessible adventures include walking, hiking, mountain biking, fishing, boating, horseback riding, skiing and wildlife viewing - with some of the most spectacular animals in North America. Where else can you spend the morning hiking through spectacular wilderness and by afternoon enjoy high tea in one of the grand hotels? The guide is filled with inside information on how to avoid the tourist traps and where to find the special places off the beaten path that the tourists don't know about; the most worthwhile outdoor adventures and indoor activities; the hotels and restaurants at all price levels that are the very best; plus tips on places to avoid. Each chapter covers transportation to and around the park, where to stay and eat, attractions and shopping, plus adventures, from drives to day hikes, rafting to cycling. Competing guides focus on the standard tourist sites (where the crowds can ruin your experience), while we take you to the lesser-known spots (restaurants, lodges, hiking paths), which are often more rewarding.
©2012 Hunter Publishing, Inc. (P)2014 Hunter Publishing, Inc.
Coastal Birds: An Audio Guide to Bird Sounds of the British Coastline
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Learn how to identify the voices of 50 coastal birds with this fascinating audio guide from the British Library. Species that are regularly found along the shores of the British Isles have been selected and include a range of seabirds, waders, wildfowl, and even a couple of songbirds. Some species such as the Oystercatcher and Ringed Plover are permanent residents on the British coastline and can been seen throughout the year. Others, such as the Puffin, Storm Petrel, and Arctic Tern only return to these shores for a limited time in order to breed. For certain species such as the Knot and Turnstone, British waters offer a safe haven in which they can see out the winter before heading back to more northerly nesting grounds in the spring. Coastal Birds presents a comprehensive collection of vocalisations that can be used during any visit to the coast. We hope that being able to identify these birds by voice will add to your enjoyment of the beautiful British coastline and the wide variety of species that can be seen and heard there. Each track includes an announcement giving the name of the species. Track listing: 1. Barnacle Goose 2. Brent Goose 3. Shelduck 4. Wigeon 5. Eider 6. Teal 7. Long-tailed Duck 8. Fulmar 9. Gannet 10. Manx Shearwater 11. Storm Petrel 12. Leach’s Petrel 13. Cormorant 14. Shag 15. Oystercatcher 16. Avocet 17. Ringed Plover 18. Grey Plover 19. Knot 20. Sanderling 21. Purple Sandpiper 22. Dunlin 23. Turnstone 24. Black-tailed Godwit 25. Bar-tailed Godwit 26. Whimbrel 27. Curlew 28. Spotted Redshank 29. Greenshank 30. Redshank 31. Great Skua 32. Arctic Skua 33. Kittiwake 34. Great Black-backed Gull 35. Lesser black-backed Gull 36. Herring Gull 37. Common Gull 38. Black-headed Gull 39. Common Tern 40. Arctic Tern 41. Sandwich Tern 42. Roseate Tern 43. Little Tern 44. Guillemot 45. Razorbill 46. Black Guillemot 47. Puffin 48. Chough 49. Rock Pipit 50. Stonechat
©2009 The British Library Board (P)2009 The British Library Board
North on the Wing
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In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo three-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward progress of spring through America. Traveling via car, canoe, bike, and on foot, Beehler followed woodland warblers and other neotropical songbird species from the southern border of Texas, where the birds first arrive after their winter sojourns in South America and the Caribbean, northward through the Mississippi drainage to its headwaters in Minnesota and onward to their nesting grounds in the north woods of Ontario. In North on the Wing, Beehler describes both the epic migration of songbirds across the country and the gradual dawning of springtime through the US heartland - the blossoming of wildflowers, the chorusing of frogs, the leafing out of forest canopies - and also tells the stories of the people and institutions dedicated to studying and conserving the critical habitats and processes of spring songbird migration. Inspired in part by Edwin Way Teale's landmark 1951 book North with the Spring, this audiobook - part travelogue, part field journal, and part environmental and cultural history - is a fascinating first-hand account of a once-in-a-lifetime journey. It engages listeners in the wonders of spring migration and serves as a call for the need to conserve, restore, and expand bird habitats to preserve them for future generations of both birds and humans.
©2018 Bruce M. Beehler (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
A Guide to British Coastal Birds and Their Sounds
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Join Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this fascinating guide to the sounds of our most popular coastal birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4.
In the fourth of our series of bird guides, Brett Westwood is joined by keen birdwatcher Stephen Moss on the north coast of Devon, and with the help of wildlife sound records Chris Watson they offer a practical and entertaining guide to identifying many of the birds you’re likely to see and hear around Britain’s coastline.
Each programme focuses on a different habitat, starting with estuaries and birds such as Redshank, Dunlin, Curlew and Knot, then sandy shores and birds including Common and Sandwich Tern; rocky shores (Rock Pipit, Turnstone), sea cliffs (Fulmar, Guillemot, Razorbill), and offshore islands (Puffin, Manx Shearwater and Arctic Tern). Listen to advice on how to recognise birds visually and how to identify them from their calls and songs. After all, often you’re more likely to hear a bird than see it!
©2011 Stephen Moss (P)2011 AudioGO Ltd
Common Bird Songs
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The songs and calls of 60 different, widely distributed birds of the United States and Canada reproduced in a 50-minute recording.
©1984 Dover Publications (P)2013 Dover Publications
Bushcraft: The Ultimate Bushcraft 101 Guide to Survive in the Wilderness like a Pro
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In a contest of survival between the strongest of men and the smartest intellectual, it is the one who is most adaptable to change who will win. Strength and IQ may affect the overall results of bushcraft practice, but they are not the prime requirements for its success. If man is willing to venture into the woods and take whatever he finds to his advantage, to read nature instead of manipulate it, then his journey shall become a success. Wilderness Survival versus Bushcraft Although similar in nature, wilderness survival and bushcraft are two distinct genres. The confusion often arises from their overlapping characteristics, which involve ways of surviving in the wild. The main distinction between the two is the amount of time spent in the backwoods. Wilderness survival utilizes short-term survival tactics where the main goal is to escape the woods ASAP (survivors usually take an average of 72 hours to escape). Bushcraft, on the other hand, involves a complete immersion in the natural environment; it is a long-term stay.
©2015 Yap Kee Chong (P)2015 Yap Kee Chong
In That Sweet Country
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A moving collection of fishing stories by one of America’s legendary outdoor writers. Throughout his career, Harry Middleton contributed hundreds of stories, essays, and book reviews to some of the most respected periodicals, including the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Field & Stream, Country Journal, Smithsonian, and Sierra, among others. When he died in 1993, Middleton left behind a legacy rich with mountain streams, wild trout, and fishermen’s dreams. In That Sweet Country is a fresh, exhilarating collection of a renowned fishing writer’s previously published works. A recognized name in outdoor writing, Middleton brings us inspiring selections such as “An Angler’s Lament” from Southern Living (1987),“Spring on the Miramichi” from The Flyfisher (1991), “A Haunting Obsession with Brown Trout” from the New York Times (1992), and many more. Listeners who have loved Middleton’s work will cherish this compilation, while novice fishermen will gain a view of the world as Middleton saw it: “There are so few left, so few who believe the earth is enough.”
©2010 Marcy Middleton. Introduction copyright 2010 by Ron Ellis (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Wren
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The wren is a paradox of a bird. On the one hand wrens are ubiquitous. They are Britain’s most common bird, with 8.5 million breeding pairs and have by far the loudest song in proportion to their size. They also thrive up and down Britain and Ireland: from the smallest city garden to remote offshore islands. Yet many people are not sure if they have ever seen a wren. Perhaps because the wren is so tiny, and so busy, always on the move. However, if we cast our eyes back to recent history wrens were a mainstay of literary, cultural and popular history. The wren was on postage stamps and the farthing, it featured in nursery rhymes and greetings cards.
©2018 Stephen Moss (P)2021 Isis Publishing Ltd
England, Our England
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An anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know: from Austen to Wordsworth, Jerusalem to the Scout's Honour, Kings and Queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory, Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St shirt makers, tying a Windsor knot to making a pot of tea, Victoria sponge to fish pie and the rules of cricket to Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
©2007 Alan Titchmarsh (P)2007 Hodder and Stoughton Audiobooks
Mastery of Re-curve Bow Shooting
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Are you a beginner or a novice in shooting a re-curve bow? Are you are looking for the best ways or techniques to learn how to shoot a re-curve bow? Have you started learning the re-curve bow but you're still having some challenges with learning it effectively? Are you having the feeling that you can never learn and master how to shoot a re-curve bow effectively because other methods have failed? Then, you do not need to worry about that. The solution you have been waiting for is now right in front of you! Essentially, this guide is meant as a very simple but detailed introduction as well as a guide on how to shoot a re-curve bow. Moreover, the goal of this guide is to give you a basic step-by-step direction so that you don’t end up scratching your head when you get your first re-curve bow and attempt to shoot it or learn it. Most importantly, when the procedures in this audiobook are carefully and efficiently followed, you will definitely end up shooting like a pro with precision plus accuracy that will beat your imagination! These and many more are carefully and amazingly considered in this guide. Scroll up and click the "buy now" button. You will be glad you did!
©2019 Kenny B.A. Hardwood (P)2019 Kenny B.A. Hardwood
Biking the Vermont Ski Summits
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Endurance athlete Heather Mason takes her bike on the official 20 Vermont Ski Slopes in a self-recounted first-recorded world-record summit attempt. An accomplished athlete; listen along as she describes firsthand the 62 hours that unfolded in late September 2020. With only three hours per mountain and a drive around the entire state of Vermont, this is a must-hear tale of a journey for anyone who has ever thought about pushing their physical extremes. Summiting 12 of the mountains, riding to the top of the best bike trails at three, and exploring the five that remained Heather will not only leave you feeling part of the journey but ready to go after your own.
©2020 Heather Mason (P)2021 Heather Mason
Strangers in the Storm
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When strangers Jared Rund and Diane McKenney met on Mount Rainier in Washington state, neither of them knew where the next few days on one of the most dangerous peaks in North America would lead them. Caught in a blizzard and detached from the rest of their party, the two are forced to spend a bewildering and frightening night high on the 14,411-foot peak with nothing to save them except their own will and preparation. But sometimes, it is the toughest of times that lead to the best. And for Jared and Diane, if a mountain blizzard couldn't stop them, then nothing would. Hear this amazing story of survival against the odds and of a love that couldn't be overcome by a deadly storm or the 1,000 miles that would later separate them.
©2018 Jared Rund & Diane McKenney (P)2019 Jared Rund & Diane McKenney
Every Day Was Special
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A collection of fishing stories from acclaimed novelist and outdoorsman William G. Tapply. "It’s been a lifelong, ever-expanding journey, with many big fish and faraway waters and dramatic moments...and yet I don’t think any of those moments or any of those places or fish has thrilled me any more than seeing the twitch of my line where it entered the muddy waters of my backyard pond....” In this collection of fishing stories from acclaimed novelist and outdoor writer William G. Tapply, the natural appeal of fishing comes to life. Each story in Every Day Was Special was previously published in Tapply’s back-page column, “Reading the Currents” in American Angler, or in Gray’s Sporting Journal, or in Field & Stream. From "Dam It" to "First Light" to "When Trout Get Antsy", these thirty re-readable pieces are unique in their own ways, and yet, all are classic Tapply. These writings serve as testament to the thrill of fishing, the inimitable energy of casting at daybreak, and the innocence of streamside summers.
©2010 The estate of William G. Tapply, Foreword copyright © 2010 by Nick Lyons (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
British Bird Sounds
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A total of 175 species are heard on this download, ranging from the familiar tawny owl to the very rare call of the bittern. The authoritative guide to all British birds likely to be encountered by the average birdwatcher and the ideal gift for anyone wishing to learn the sounds of the great variety of birds that can be seen and heard throughout the seasons. A perennial best seller. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site.
©2000 The British Library Board (P)2000 The British Library Board
Songs of Western Birds
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Noted ornithologist's outstanding field recordings of songs and calls. This set covers 60 birds with several recordings for each.
©1984 Dover Publications (P)2013 Dover Publications
A Guide to British Woodland Birds
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Join presenter Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this fascinating guide to the songs of our most popular woodland birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4.
Woods and forests are full of birds, and although you might not immediately see them you will certainly hear them. This practical and informative audio guide, recorded in springtime in the Forest of Dean, will help you to recognise the birds you see - and those you only hear - when you're walking in one of Britain's beautiful woodlands.
Each of the programmes focuses on a different group of birds, starting with the pretty Nuthatch and the brightly coloured Woodpeckers, small birds and wonderful songbirds like the Black Cap, the Garden Warbler and the elusive Nightingale. Then there are the specialists, who need coniferous planting to thrive - the Siskin, Gold crest, Coal Tit and the more exotic Crossbill. Finally, the big ones, Sparrow hawks, Jays, Jackdaws and Owls.
Whether you're a novice or an experienced birdwatcher, this series will help you to tell the Chiffchaff from the Willow Warbler, the Redstart from the Pied Flycatcher and to enjoy the astonishing variety of bird life in British woodlands.
©2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd (P)2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd