Best Sellers
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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LeVar is like listening to a breathy James T. Kirk
- By Robert on 2018-04-04
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Material World
- The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
- Written by: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....
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Excellent in linking raw materials w/daily lives
- By Billy on 2024-01-01
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The Spinning Magnet
- The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
- Written by: Alanna Mitchell
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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An engrossing history of the science of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electromagnetism, right up to the latest indications that the poles are soon to reverse....
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Worth a credit!!
- By clevrgrl on 2018-06-01
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- Written by: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle of salmon....
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good read
- By Anonymous User on 2022-09-12
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals....
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Excellent Follow Up That Stands On It’s Own
- By Sebastian on 2022-07-12
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....
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Not bad
- By Mark on 2018-06-23
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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LeVar is like listening to a breathy James T. Kirk
- By Robert on 2018-04-04
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Material World
- The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
- Written by: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....
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Excellent in linking raw materials w/daily lives
- By Billy on 2024-01-01
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The Spinning Magnet
- The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
- Written by: Alanna Mitchell
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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An engrossing history of the science of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electromagnetism, right up to the latest indications that the poles are soon to reverse....
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Worth a credit!!
- By clevrgrl on 2018-06-01
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- Written by: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle of salmon....
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good read
- By Anonymous User on 2022-09-12
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals....
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Excellent Follow Up That Stands On It’s Own
- By Sebastian on 2022-07-12
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- Written by: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....
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Not bad
- By Mark on 2018-06-23
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Into the Deep
- A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic
- Written by: Robert D. Ballard, Christopher Drew
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery - plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life....
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Excellent Read
- By Andrew on 2021-07-21
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Written by: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Climate science unsettled? Yes and very much so.
- By Norman Klippenstein on 2021-05-22
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- Written 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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Very good overview of geography and humanity
- By Anonymous User on 2023-01-17
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How the Earth Works
- Written by: Michael E. Wysession, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael E. Wysession
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
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How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you will look at what went into making our planet - from the big bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth....
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very informative
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-04-19
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Deep
- Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
- Written by: James Nestor
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Deep is a voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth....
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Educational
- By Kim on 2020-04-05
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Salt
- A World History
- Written by: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it...
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A very salty history
- By Ron Smallwood on 2021-02-11
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The Invention of Prehistory
- Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
- Written by: Stefanos Geroulanos
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.
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Wonderful Life
- The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- Written by: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail....
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Into the Storm
- Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
- Written by: Tristram Korten
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions....
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Drawn out
- By linda on 2020-02-12
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Symphony in C
- Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- Written by: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity....
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The Blue Machine
- How the Ocean Works
- Written by: Helen Czerski
- Narrated by: Helen Czerski
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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Physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski explores the “ocean engine”—the physics behind the ocean’s systems—and why it matters....
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us....
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Stunning
- By Anonymous User on 2023-02-02
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The Water Will Come
- Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
- Written by: Jeff Goodell
- Narrated by: Ian Ferguson
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live....
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Great story, not my favorite narration voice.
- By Ben on 2019-06-22
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms....
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One of the best
- By Tim Mabey on 2023-01-15
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The Underworld
- Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
- Written by: Susan Casey
- Narrated by: Susan Casey
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Susan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet....
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Dirt
- The Erosion of Civilizations
- Written by: David R. Montgomery
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Dirt, soil, call it what you want, it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times....
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good stuff to learn this was a good book
- By Jeff on 2019-09-03
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
- An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
- Written by: Riley Black
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It’s a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away....
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The Invention of Nature
- Alexander von Humboldt's New World
- Written by: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....
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Great Story
- By Thomas M on 2023-03-31
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Wild New World
- The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
- Written by: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Clark Cornell
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....
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Annoying Accents
- By Rob Larmer on 2023-10-29
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All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- Written by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward....
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Truly Inspirational, I will play it again and again!
- By Michele A. on 2020-12-19
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Landmarks
- Written by: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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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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Poem, word landscape, elegy,
- By helen holtby on 2020-11-26
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- Written by: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....
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More biological than I thought it would be
- By Paul R. on 2024-02-25
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Sasquatch
- Legend Meets Science
- Written by: Jeff Meldrum
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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In this work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism....
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A Scientific/Cryptozoological Treatise
- By Langer MD on 2021-04-27
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The Outlaw Ocean
- Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
- Written by: Ian Urbina
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Ian Urbina
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation....
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Very well written, extremely important book
- By Paulina Zelitsky on 2020-09-10