Returning to Earth: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Returning to Earth audiobook runs 7.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Traci Svendsgaard and Richard Powers and others (about 5.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.7 hours, it is shorter than 64% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Traci Svendsgaard
Traci Svendsgaard narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 68 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
2,187 Literary Fiction 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
Returning to Earth is an audiobook by Jim Harrison: a 7.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Traci Svendsgaard, Richard Powers and Ray Porter and others, released January 1, 2006, on the Literary Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Traci Svendsgaard, Richard Powers, Ray Porter, Tom Weiner
- Released
- January 1, 2006
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781481564977
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Returning to Earth audiobook?
Returning to Earth runs 7.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.1 hours.
Is the Returning to Earth audiobook free?
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Who narrates Returning to Earth?
Returning to Earth is narrated by Traci Svendsgaard, Richard Powers, Ray Porter and Tom Weiner.