The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map runs 9.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Michael David Axtell (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.4 hours, it runs longer than 60% of the 1,603 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Michael David Axtell
Michael David Axtell narrates 96 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,130 hours in all.
About as long, on the Biology & Chemistry shelf
336 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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 Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map is an audiobook by Alex Hutchinson: a 9.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael David Axtell, released March 25, 2025, on the Biology & Chemistry and Self-Development shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Michael David Axtell
- Released
- March 25, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biology & Chemistry, Self-Development
- ISBN
- 9780063269798
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map as an audiobook?
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map runs 9.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.
Is The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map?
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map is narrated by Michael David Axtell.