How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe audiobook runs 13 hours unabridged, narrated by David Drummond (about 8.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 26 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 13 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 1,009 Astronomy & Physics audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by David Drummond
David Drummond narrates 142 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,696 hours in all.
- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
- To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam
- Warstrider
- The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious---and Perplexing---City
About as long, on the Astronomy & Physics shelf
96 Astronomy & Physics audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality
- The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
- Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
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
How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe is an audiobook by Chris Impey: a 13-hour unabridged recording, read by David Drummond, released April 23, 2012, on the Astronomy & Physics shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Drummond
- Released
- April 23, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Astronomy & Physics
- ISBN
- 9781452677347
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe audiobook?
How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe runs 13 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.7 hours.
Is the How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe?
How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe is narrated by David Drummond.
Is How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.7 hours, saving 4.3 hours.