The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World runs 13.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Simon Winchester (about 9.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 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 13.8 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester narrates 17 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 179 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
816 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
The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World is an audiobook by Simon Winchester: a 13.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Winchester, released January 19, 2021, on the Social Science and World shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Winchester
- Released
- January 19, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, World
- ISBN
- 9780062938367
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World as an audiobook?
The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World runs 13.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.2 hours.
Is The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World?
The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World is narrated by Simon Winchester.
Is The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.2 hours, saving 4.6 hours.