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The Ice at the End of the World
- An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- ナレーター: Fred Sanders, Jon Gertner
- 再生時間: 12 時間 54 分
- カテゴリー: 自伝・回顧録, 冒険家・探検家・サバイバル
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Floating Coast
- An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- 著者: Bathsheba Demuth
- ナレーター: Christa Lewis
- 再生時間: 12 時間 30 分
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The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans - the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia - before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress.
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The Body
- A Guide for Occupants
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: Bill Bryson
- 再生時間: 14 時間 47 分
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In the best-selling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.
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Very good storytelling about the human body.
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2020/10/06
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- 著者: David Wallace-Wells
- ナレーター: David Wallace-Wells
- 再生時間: 9 時間
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it - the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- 著者: Buddy Levy
- ナレーター: Will Damron
- 再生時間: 13 時間 13 分
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In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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Arctic Dreams
- 著者: Barry Lopez
- ナレーター: James Naughton
- 再生時間: 17 時間 33 分
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This best-selling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
- The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
- 著者: Jonathan C. Slaght
- ナレーター: Jonathan C. Slaght
- 再生時間: 8 時間 43 分
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Primorye, a remote forested region near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire, is the only place where brown bears, tigers and leopards co-exist. It is also home to one of nature's rarest birds, the Blakiston's fish owl. A chance encounter with this huge, strange bird was to change wildlife researcher Jonathan C. Slaght's life beyond measure. This is the story of Slaght's quest to safeguard the elusive owl from extinction.
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Floating Coast
- An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- 著者: Bathsheba Demuth
- ナレーター: Christa Lewis
- 再生時間: 12 時間 30 分
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The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans - the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia - before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress.
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The Body
- A Guide for Occupants
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: Bill Bryson
- 再生時間: 14 時間 47 分
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In the best-selling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.
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Very good storytelling about the human body.
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2020/10/06
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- 著者: David Wallace-Wells
- ナレーター: David Wallace-Wells
- 再生時間: 9 時間
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it - the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- 著者: Buddy Levy
- ナレーター: Will Damron
- 再生時間: 13 時間 13 分
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In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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Arctic Dreams
- 著者: Barry Lopez
- ナレーター: James Naughton
- 再生時間: 17 時間 33 分
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This best-selling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
- The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
- 著者: Jonathan C. Slaght
- ナレーター: Jonathan C. Slaght
- 再生時間: 8 時間 43 分
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Primorye, a remote forested region near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire, is the only place where brown bears, tigers and leopards co-exist. It is also home to one of nature's rarest birds, the Blakiston's fish owl. A chance encounter with this huge, strange bird was to change wildlife researcher Jonathan C. Slaght's life beyond measure. This is the story of Slaght's quest to safeguard the elusive owl from extinction.
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Salt Sugar Fat
- How the Food Giants Hooked Us
- 著者: Michael Moss
- ナレーター: Scott Brick
- 再生時間: 14 時間 34 分
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.
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The Sixth Extinction
- An Unnatural History
- 著者: Elizabeth Kolbert
- ナレーター: Anne Twomey
- 再生時間: 9 時間 59 分
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A major audiobook about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
- 著者: Fareed Zakaria
- ナレーター: Fareed Zakaria
- 再生時間: 7 時間 24 分
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Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold. In the form of 10 straightforward “lessons”, covering topics from globalization and threat-preparedness to inequality and technological advancement, Zakaria creates a structure for listeners to begin thinking beyond COVID-19.
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The Great Influenza
- The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
- 著者: John M. Barry
- ナレーター: Scott Brick
- 再生時間: 19 時間 26 分
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In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises and how to prepare for future outbreaks? At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 months than AIDS killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- 著者: Neil Shubin
- ナレーター: Marc Cashman
- 再生時間: 7 時間 28 分
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Over billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and apelike primates evolved into humans that walk on two legs, talk, and write. For more than a century, paleontologists have traveled the globe to find fossils that show how such changes have happened. We have now arrived at a remarkable moment - prehistoric fossils coupled with new DNA technology have given us the tools to answer some of the basic questions of our existence: How do big changes in evolution happen?
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Timefulness
- How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
- 著者: Marcia Bjornerud
- ナレーター: Tanya Eby
- 再生時間: 5 時間 44 分
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Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. Our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and our habits will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations. Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future.
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- 著者: David Remnick
- ナレーター: Michael Prichard
- 再生時間: 29 時間 6 分
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.
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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- 著者: Ed Caesar
- ナレーター: James Langton
- 再生時間: 7 時間 19 分
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In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: He will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone.
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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Henry Strozier
- 再生時間: 18 時間 44 分
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In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
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歴史のジェネラリスト
- 投稿者: 出張勝也 日付: 2019/12/10
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Spying on the South
- An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- 著者: Tony Horwitz
- ナレーター: Mark Deakins, Tony Horwitz
- 再生時間: 17 時間 11 分
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In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman", the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country?
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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- 著者: David Roberts
- ナレーター: Matthew Brenher
- 再生時間: 11 時間 39 分
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On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone. Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizable, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?"
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“Penetrating and engrossing...a captivating, essential book to add to the necessarily burgeoning literature on global warming.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
“The Ice at the End of the World is a masterpiece of reportage and storytelling. What Gertner has found on Greenland’s remote glaciers is a harrowing tale of extremity and survival, as well as a harbinger of our own precarious future here on earth. Equal parts science, adventure, and history, this important book is a revelation, one that lingered for me long after turning the last page.” (Michael Paterniti, author of The Telling Room)
“Jon Gertner guides us on a perilous and fascinating journey to the remote island that lies at the epicenter of our understanding of climate change. With compelling prose and lucid scientific explanation, he tracks the explorers and scientists who, over two centuries, have tried to fathom the immensity and mysteries of Greenland’s inland ice. Both enlightening and disturbing, The Ice at the End of the World takes us on a gripping adventure into the thawing heart of global warming.” (Peter Stark, author of Astoria)
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A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change.
“Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction)
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post • Christian Science Monitor • Library Journal
Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland - at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland’s ice doesn’t just tell us where we’ve been. More urgently, it tells us where we’re headed.
In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the 20th century - first on foot, then on skis, then on crude, motorized sleds - and embarked on grueling expeditions that took as long as a year and often ended in frostbitten tragedy. Their original goal was simple: to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling - one mile, two miles down. Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past, going back hundreds of thousands of years.
Today, scientists from all over the world are deploying every technological tool available to uncover the secrets of this frozen island before it’s too late. As Greenland’s ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns.
Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style - and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. The melting ice sheet in Greenland is, in a way, an analog for time. It contains the past. It reflects the present. It can also tell us how much time we might have left.
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- EM Goodkind
- 2019/09/08
Adventure, Science, Advocacy
There is a lot of excitement in the detail of early explorers who somehow transitioned over the past 125 years into meticulous scientists who for the most part retained a sense of adventure in a well drawn and exotic landscape that few people, certainly I, know little about. Weaved throughout is a portrait of climate change and how Greenland (and Antarctica) play a key role in our knowledge and potentially solutions. World forces, including the quest for minerals, game and nuclear safety, are shown as drivers of exploration. The first part of the book describing early exploration is the most adventurous, but by the second part we are ready to learn the rest of the story. This is a great book for people who live to learn adventure in a context that goes beyond the old saw, "we go because it's there." One quibble: as an audiobook, I would have really liked to have had a few PDFs showing the routes of explorers and the sites of settlements and stations.
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- Hannah Roberts
- 2020/08/19
Difficult to get through
It's worth reading if you're interested in climate change, but I had trouble finishing it.
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- 匿名
- 2020/05/21
very nice, only one probem
I think its a bit stupid to use the american measurement system (feet, miles, °F) it very excluding to the international community (scientists included). otherwise a fantastic chronicle of polar sciencs
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- Ed IsReal
- 2020/05/03
A compelling listen for science history lovers
This is a great history of arctic exploration - it grabs you in a similar way that the story of Shackleton´s Endurance holds you. That´s the first half or so. Then there are so many fascinating tidbits, like the story of a mini portable nuclear reactor that the US military sent to Greenland - and then abandoned it there. The transitions to modern science are really interesting, and the connections to the ice sheet´s early explorers and today´s meltdown are delicate and detailed.
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- Matthew Hutchins
- 2019/08/06
Epic stories of the pioneers of ice adventuring
I was extremely pleased with the scope and depth of the stories built into this epic narrative of the rugged adventurers who mapped out the formidable Greenland ice sheet and how their early expeditions built up an understanding of the science of glaciers. That science has now become crucial in understanding the impacts of global warming, and those links and how they were discovered are explored thoroughly here. A masterful combination of science, history and epic biography.