Pacific: The Ocean of the Future: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Pacific: The Ocean of the Future audiobook runs 14 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Winchester (about 9.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14 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 |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 14 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.
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
- The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
763 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
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future is an audiobook by Simon Winchester: a 14-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Winchester, released October 22, 2015, on the Social Science and World shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Winchester
- Released
- October 22, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, World, Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9780008141110
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Pacific: The Ocean of the Future audiobook?
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future runs 14 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.4 hours.
Is the Pacific: The Ocean of the Future audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Pacific: The Ocean of the Future?
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future is narrated by Simon Winchester.
Is Pacific: The Ocean of the Future worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.4 hours, saving 4.7 hours.