The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind runs 13.9 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 13.9 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 13.9 hours, it runs longer than 79% of the 7,179 World 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 World shelf
830 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Homo Deus: The million-copy bestseller from the author of Nexus
- A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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 Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind is an audiobook by Simon Winchester: a 13.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Winchester, released November 18, 2025, on the World and Non-Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Winchester
- Released
- November 18, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780063374485
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind as an audiobook?
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind runs 13.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.2 hours.
Is The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind?
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind is narrated by Simon Winchester.
Is The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.2 hours, saving 4.6 hours.