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Your Dog Is Your Mirror
- The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves
- By: Kevin Behan
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion....
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SO Annoying
- By Anonymous User on 30-09-2022
By: Kevin Behan
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The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse
- From the Australian bush to the Battle of Beersheba - an Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Bligh
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
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The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse traces the hard path of the Light Horse from the bleakest of starts - being deprived of their horses and fighting at Gallipoli in the tragic Battle of the Nek - to triumph and glory in the desert....
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Excellent rendition of history
- By Anonymous User on 03-11-2024
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Horse Brain, Human Brain
- The Neuroscience of Horsemanship
- By: Janet L. Jones
- Narrated by: Helena Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world....
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Expert knowledge
- By Anonymous User on 19-11-2024
By: Janet L. Jones
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David Attenborough - Life on Air
- Memoirs of a Broadcaster
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
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In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited....
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Living treasure
- By Steven J Short on 20-01-2017
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Meetings with Remarkable Animals
- By: Martin Clunes
- Narrated by: Martin Clunes
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Guide-dog Laura needed a new home. And, after listening to her owner, Jaina, talk on the radio about what would happen to her much loved guide and companion when she retired, Martin Clunes picked up the phone. He’d always been a soft touch when it came to animals. One more couldn’t hurt.
By: Martin Clunes
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My Family and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Nigel Davenport
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family....
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A fun story
- By Anonymon on 20-06-2023
By: Gerald Durrell
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Your Dog Is Your Mirror
- The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves
- By: Kevin Behan
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion....
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SO Annoying
- By Anonymous User on 30-09-2022
By: Kevin Behan
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The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse
- From the Australian bush to the Battle of Beersheba - an Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Bligh
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse traces the hard path of the Light Horse from the bleakest of starts - being deprived of their horses and fighting at Gallipoli in the tragic Battle of the Nek - to triumph and glory in the desert....
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Excellent rendition of history
- By Anonymous User on 03-11-2024
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Horse Brain, Human Brain
- The Neuroscience of Horsemanship
- By: Janet L. Jones
- Narrated by: Helena Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world....
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Expert knowledge
- By Anonymous User on 19-11-2024
By: Janet L. Jones
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David Attenborough - Life on Air
- Memoirs of a Broadcaster
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
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In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited....
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Living treasure
- By Steven J Short on 20-01-2017
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Meetings with Remarkable Animals
- By: Martin Clunes
- Narrated by: Martin Clunes
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Guide-dog Laura needed a new home. And, after listening to her owner, Jaina, talk on the radio about what would happen to her much loved guide and companion when she retired, Martin Clunes picked up the phone. He’d always been a soft touch when it came to animals. One more couldn’t hurt.
By: Martin Clunes
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My Family and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Nigel Davenport
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family....
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A fun story
- By Anonymon on 20-06-2023
By: Gerald Durrell
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The Life of Birds (Updated Edition)
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Birds. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals. David Attenborough has been watching and learning all his life. His classic book, now fully updated with the latest discoveries in ornithology, is a brilliant introduction to bird behaviours around the world....
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David Attenborough's Life Stories
- The Complete Collection
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Collected together for the very first time, this is the complete series one and two of Life Stories, written and presented by Sir David Attenborough....
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Perfection
- By Anonymous User on 20-12-2022
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Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior
- What They Did and How We Know
- By: David Hone
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Written by one of the world's leading dinosaur experts, Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a foundational work on the subject and an invaluable reference for anyone interested in these amazing creatures.
By: David Hone
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The Peregrine
- By: J. A. Baker
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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The nation's greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, The Peregrine....
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A masterpiece of nature writing
- By Michael Bedward on 08-01-2020
By: J. A. Baker
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Wildlife Wars
- The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden
- By: Terry Grosz
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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In Wildlife Wars, Terry Grosz serves up fascinating stories - alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heart-wrenching - from his 30-year struggle to protect wildlife in America....
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The way it is!!
- By Zane on 27-12-2016
By: Terry Grosz
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A Fly Rod of Your Own
- By: John Gierach
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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John Gierach is known for his witty, trenchant observations about fly-fishing. In A Fly Rod of Your Own, he again takes us into his world and scrutinizes the art of fly-fishing....
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Gone fishing!
- By RyanStampfli on 25-02-2019
By: John Gierach
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The Trials of Life
- A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 10 hrs
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This is the third and last of Sir David’s great natural history books based on his TV series and completes his survey of the animal world that began with Life on Earth and continues with Living Planet....
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amazing
- By Anonymous User on 16-08-2023
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The Garden of the Gods
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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The enchanted island of Corfu was home to Gerald Durrell and his family for five years before the Second World War....
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Great book- but too short!!
- By Cat on 31-03-2022
By: Gerald Durrell
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One Wild Bird at a Time
- Portraits of Individual Lives
- By: Bernd Heinrich
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds....
By: Bernd Heinrich
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Super Fly
- The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
- By: Jonathan Balcombe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Balcombe
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity....
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Animal Speak
- Understanding Animal Messengers, Totems, and Signs
- By: Ted Andrews
- Narrated by: Ted Andrews
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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In Animal Speak, Andrews presents an in-depth workshop to help you tap the power of the animal spirits in your own life....
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Fantastic book!
- By Kathy on 05-12-2024
By: Ted Andrews
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Homing
- On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return
- By: Jon Day
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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A feral history of home, and our relationship with that most unloved bird...
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Refreshing!
- By Anonymous User on 03-02-2020
By: Jon Day
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Alfie and Me
- What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
- By: Carl Safina
- Narrated by: Carl Safina
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be a temporary presence. But Alfie's feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care....
By: Carl Safina
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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
- A Year of Gardening and (Wild)Life
- By: Kate Bradbury
- Narrated by: Kate Bradbury
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden....
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Unexpected tears and remembering why I do this job
- By Anonymous User on 26-01-2023
By: Kate Bradbury
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Inside of a Dog
- What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
- By: Alexandra Horowitz
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Have you ever wondered what your dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can! The answers will surprise and delight you....
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Great book but....
- By Captain Canine on 24-02-2021
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White Hunters
- By: Brian Herne
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....
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Very interesting
- By Christo Saggers on 28-02-2024
By: Brian Herne
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The Lives of Bees
- The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
- By: Thomas D. Seeley
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Engaging and deeply personal, The Lives of Bees reveals how we can become better custodians of honey bees and make use of their resources in ways that enrich their lives, as well as our own....
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Every beekeeper should listen to this
- By Dr Rachel S Stone on 13-09-2020
By: Thomas D. Seeley
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Ring of Bright Water
- By: Gavin Maxwell
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Ring of Bright Water' represents Gavin Maxwell's account of his life at Camusfearna and in particular the two otters, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant and much-loved companions....
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Poetry
- By Rachael S. on 18-09-2023
By: Gavin Maxwell
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Mosquito
- The Story of Man’s Deadliest Foe
- By: Michael D'Antonio, Andrew Spielman
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Now in audio - a fascinating work of popular science from a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter....
By: Michael D'Antonio, and others
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The Ride of Her Life
- The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
- By: Elizabeth Letts
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Letts, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean....
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the believable story
- By Janet Catesby on 12-03-2024
By: Elizabeth Letts
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Half Broke
- A Memoir
- By: Ginger Gaffney
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers a call to help retrain the troubled horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico, a facility run entirely by the prisoners....
By: Ginger Gaffney
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Born Free Trilogy
- By: Joy Adamson
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Joy Adamson is world-famous as the woman who walked with lions. These are the books that brought the story of her work to a public whose imagination was captured by the discovery of this remarkable interaction between man and beast.
By: Joy Adamson
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The Five Roles of a Master Herder
- A Revolutionary Model for Socially Intelligent Leadership
- By: Linda Kohanov
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Linda Kohanov, author of the bestselling The Tao of Equus, pioneered a deep understanding of "the way of the horse," including the extraordinary nonverbal communication of skilled riders....
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Enjoyable new perspective on behavious
- By Anonymous User on 16-02-2023
By: Linda Kohanov
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My Farming Life
- Tales from a Shepherdess on a Remote Northumberland Farm
- By: Emma Gray
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Emma Gray was just 23 when she moved to an isolated farm in Northumberland, becoming Britain's youngest solo shepherdess. In the seasons that followed, Emma fell in love with its rolling fields, sycamore trees and sturdy farmhouse, where she tended her sheep and trained her dogs....
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My favourite book on Audible so far..!
- By Amazon Customer on 12-07-2023
By: Emma Gray
New Releases
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Intuizione selvaggia
- By: Craig Foster, Sara Caraffini - traduttore
- Narrated by: Mario Cei
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Abbraccia la tua anima ancestrale e impara dalla natura come vivere in equilibrio nel mondo di oggi. Dall’autore del documentario premio Oscar Il mio amico in fondo al mare. Al tempo stesso storia d’amore e di avventura, diario di viaggio, memoir naturalistico e guida spirituale, Intuizione selvaggia è la straordinaria testimonianza di come sia possibile recuperare una profonda connessione con una parte del nostro io che non siamo più abituati ad ascoltare, ma che può dare un senso nuovo alle nostre vite.
By: Craig Foster, and others
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A qualcuno piace gatto
- Guida pratica per una convivenza felice tra umani e felini
- By: Cassandra Sartori
- Narrated by: Beatrice Margiotti
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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La creatrice del profilo @filippotheonlyonered. Per diventare dei compagni di vita più consapevoli e instaurare con i vostri gatti una relazione rispettosa e ricca d’amore reciproco. Cassandra Sartori è la consulente in cultura felina che tutti vorrebbero per amica: simpatica, affettuosa, creativa e, soprattutto, autenticamente e orgogliosamente gattara.
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Schlangen [Snakes]
- Geschickte Jäger und wahre Meister der Anpassung [Skilled Hunters and True Masters of Adaptation]
- By: Cindy Meinheim
- Narrated by: Uli Kohl
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Entdecke die faszinierende Welt der Schlangen! Dieses Buch bietet eine spannende Reise durch das Leben dieser geheimnisvollen und oft missverstandenen Kreaturen. Von der unglaublichen Artenvielfalt über ihre meisterhaften Jagdtechniken bis hin zu den größten Mythen und Legenden, die sich um Schlangen ranken – hier erfahren Sie alles, was Sie schon immer über diese lautlosen Jäger wissen wollten. Erfahren Sie, welche Schlangen giftig sind und welche nicht, wie sie ihre Beute überwältigen und welche Rolle sie in den verschiedenen Kulturen der Welt spielen.
By: Cindy Meinheim
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"Dein Pferd testet dich" [“Your Horse Is Testing You”]
- Und andere Mythen und Irrglauben aus der Welt der Pferde und Reiter [And Other Myths and Misconceptions from the World of Horses and Riders]
- By: Daniela Vögele
- Narrated by: Christiane Ulrich
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Dieses Buch beleuchtet Irrglauben und Mythen über Pferde, ihr Verhalten und den Umgang mit ihnen neu und soll den Menschen zum genaueren Hinsehen, zum Reflektieren und zum Hinterfragen anregen.
By: Daniela Vögele
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Gorillas: Wissenswertes über diese Menschenaffen [Gorillas: Interesting Facts About These Great Apes]
- By: Cindy Meinheim
- Narrated by: Alex Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Gorillas gehören zu den geheimnisvollsten und beeindruckendsten Geschöpfen unserer Erde – mächtig, intelligent und mit einem sozialen Zusammenhalt, der uns Menschen tief berührt. Dieses Buch nimmt dich mit auf eine spannende Reise zu den letzten großen Menschenaffen des Dschungels und eröffnet dir Einblicke in ihre tägliche Welt voller Herausforderungen, beeindruckender Rituale und feiner Zwischentöne.
By: Cindy Meinheim
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El ajolote
- Biología del anfibio más sobresaliente del mundo
- By: Andrés Cota Hiriart
- Narrated by: Andrés Cota Hiriart
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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El ajolote ha despertado el interés constante de gente muy diversa: se ha concebido mitológicamente, comido por placer y usado como remedio; habita en la oscuridad del agua, quizás con discreción, pero es quinta esencial para la cultura del Valle de México. Se ha venerado como fetiche y ha sido la musa involuntaria de toda clase de artistas en gran parte del mundo.
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Intuizione selvaggia
- By: Craig Foster, Sara Caraffini - traduttore
- Narrated by: Mario Cei
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Abbraccia la tua anima ancestrale e impara dalla natura come vivere in equilibrio nel mondo di oggi. Dall’autore del documentario premio Oscar Il mio amico in fondo al mare. Al tempo stesso storia d’amore e di avventura, diario di viaggio, memoir naturalistico e guida spirituale, Intuizione selvaggia è la straordinaria testimonianza di come sia possibile recuperare una profonda connessione con una parte del nostro io che non siamo più abituati ad ascoltare, ma che può dare un senso nuovo alle nostre vite.
By: Craig Foster, and others
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A qualcuno piace gatto
- Guida pratica per una convivenza felice tra umani e felini
- By: Cassandra Sartori
- Narrated by: Beatrice Margiotti
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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La creatrice del profilo @filippotheonlyonered. Per diventare dei compagni di vita più consapevoli e instaurare con i vostri gatti una relazione rispettosa e ricca d’amore reciproco. Cassandra Sartori è la consulente in cultura felina che tutti vorrebbero per amica: simpatica, affettuosa, creativa e, soprattutto, autenticamente e orgogliosamente gattara.
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Schlangen [Snakes]
- Geschickte Jäger und wahre Meister der Anpassung [Skilled Hunters and True Masters of Adaptation]
- By: Cindy Meinheim
- Narrated by: Uli Kohl
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Entdecke die faszinierende Welt der Schlangen! Dieses Buch bietet eine spannende Reise durch das Leben dieser geheimnisvollen und oft missverstandenen Kreaturen. Von der unglaublichen Artenvielfalt über ihre meisterhaften Jagdtechniken bis hin zu den größten Mythen und Legenden, die sich um Schlangen ranken – hier erfahren Sie alles, was Sie schon immer über diese lautlosen Jäger wissen wollten. Erfahren Sie, welche Schlangen giftig sind und welche nicht, wie sie ihre Beute überwältigen und welche Rolle sie in den verschiedenen Kulturen der Welt spielen.
By: Cindy Meinheim
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"Dein Pferd testet dich" [“Your Horse Is Testing You”]
- Und andere Mythen und Irrglauben aus der Welt der Pferde und Reiter [And Other Myths and Misconceptions from the World of Horses and Riders]
- By: Daniela Vögele
- Narrated by: Christiane Ulrich
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Dieses Buch beleuchtet Irrglauben und Mythen über Pferde, ihr Verhalten und den Umgang mit ihnen neu und soll den Menschen zum genaueren Hinsehen, zum Reflektieren und zum Hinterfragen anregen.
By: Daniela Vögele
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Gorillas: Wissenswertes über diese Menschenaffen [Gorillas: Interesting Facts About These Great Apes]
- By: Cindy Meinheim
- Narrated by: Alex Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Gorillas gehören zu den geheimnisvollsten und beeindruckendsten Geschöpfen unserer Erde – mächtig, intelligent und mit einem sozialen Zusammenhalt, der uns Menschen tief berührt. Dieses Buch nimmt dich mit auf eine spannende Reise zu den letzten großen Menschenaffen des Dschungels und eröffnet dir Einblicke in ihre tägliche Welt voller Herausforderungen, beeindruckender Rituale und feiner Zwischentöne.
By: Cindy Meinheim
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El ajolote
- Biología del anfibio más sobresaliente del mundo
- By: Andrés Cota Hiriart
- Narrated by: Andrés Cota Hiriart
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Abridged
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El ajolote ha despertado el interés constante de gente muy diversa: se ha concebido mitológicamente, comido por placer y usado como remedio; habita en la oscuridad del agua, quizás con discreción, pero es quinta esencial para la cultura del Valle de México. Se ha venerado como fetiche y ha sido la musa involuntaria de toda clase de artistas en gran parte del mundo.