Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats audiobook runs 8.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Xe Sands (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 8.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.3 hours, it runs longer than 52% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Xe Sands
Xe Sands narrates 477 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,383 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,912 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats is an audiobook by Maryn McKenna: a 8.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Xe Sands, released October 16, 2018, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Xe Sands
- Released
- October 16, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781977380500
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How long is the Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats audiobook?
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats runs 8.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.
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Who narrates Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats?
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats is narrated by Xe Sands.