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Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness Audiobook
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AN AUDIBLE BEST AUDIOBOOK OF 2025
Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the earth's future.
Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder, and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet—the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate, and creates the air we breathe. This book showcase the oceans' remarkable resilience: they can, and in some cases have, recovered the fastest, if we only give them the chance.
Drawing a course across David Attenborough's own lifetime, Ocean takes readers on an adventure-laden voyage through eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species, and the most astounding discoveries of the last 100 years, to a future vision of a fully restored marine world—one even more spectacular than we could possibly hope for. Ocean reveals the past, present and potential future of our blue planet. It is a book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed.
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“No one is better than Sir David Attenborough at communicating authentic awe and wonder at discoveries in the natural world. So it’s no surprise that this audiobook on ocean ecosystems is an intimate and wildly informative joy ride into the sea…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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“Readers will enjoy this paean to the ocean’s beauty and weirdness…The book follows the format of an Attenborough documentary, with expressions of wonder at the sights and lucid explanations of what needs explaining.”
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“The authors balance alarming overviews of how humans are disrupting ocean ecosystems with uplifting stories of people working to prevent such harms…Attenborough’s admirers will savor this.”
— Publishers Weekly
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A #1 Amazon Bestseller
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About the Authors
Sir David Attenborough is a winner of the Emmy Award–winning broadcaster and natural historian. He is the internationally bestselling author of over twenty-five books, including Life on Earth. In 2002, he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a United Kingdom-wide poll for the BBC. He has also served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s, and as the president of the Royal Society for Nature Conservation in the 1990s.