Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World – from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World – from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction audiobook runs 12.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Rebecca Lowman (about 8.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 12.7 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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What our data says
- At 12.7 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Rebecca Lowman
Rebecca Lowman narrates 226 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,296 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,034 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
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World – from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction is an audiobook by Elizabeth Kolbert: a 12.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Rebecca Lowman, released November 6, 2025, on the Social Science and Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Rebecca Lowman
- Released
- November 6, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781529972757
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World – from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction audiobook?
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World – from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction runs 12.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.4 hours.
Is the Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World – from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction audiobook free?
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Who narrates Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World – from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction?
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World – from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction is narrated by Rebecca Lowman.
Is Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World – from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.4 hours, saving 4.2 hours.