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Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Robert MacFarlane

Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller audiobook runs 10.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Robert MacFarlane (about 7.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.7listening hrs
Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)store shelf
2025released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 10.7 hours, it runs longer than 82% of the 4,073 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

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

Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller is an audiobook by Robert MacFarlane: a 10.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Robert MacFarlane, released May 1, 2025, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) and Learn Something New shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.7 hrs
Narrated by
Robert MacFarlane
Released
May 1, 2025
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction), Learn Something New
ISBN
9781405975162

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller audiobook?

Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller runs 10.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.1 hours.

Is the Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller?

Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller is narrated by Robert MacFarlane.

Is Is a River Alive?: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.1 hours, saving 3.6 hours.