Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality audiobook runs 7.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Tom Perkins (about 5.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.8 hours, it runs longer than 70% of the 10,901 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog.
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Tom Perkins narrates 208 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,284 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Medicine & Naturopathy shelf
1,338 Medicine & Naturopathy 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
Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality is an audiobook by Shelley Fraser Mickle: a 7.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Tom Perkins, released April 14, 2020, on the Medicine & Naturopathy and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Tom Perkins
- Released
- April 14, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Medicine & Naturopathy, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9781696600293
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How long is the Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality audiobook?
Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality runs 7.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.2 hours.
Is the Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality audiobook free?
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Who narrates Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality?
Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality is narrated by Tom Perkins.