The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time runs 29.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Scott Sowers (about 19.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 29.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 59 days |
| 1 hour / day | 30 days |
| 2 hours / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 20 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 29.2 hours, it runs longer than 100% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Scott Sowers
Scott Sowers narrates 98 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,050 hours in all.
- Dune: Book One in the Dune Chronicles
- The Confession
- The Last Song
- Hope to Die
- Tick Tock
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
37 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI’s War on the American Indian Movement
- The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Other recordings
- The 2026 recording read by Scott Sours runs about the same length (29.1 hours).
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 Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time is an audiobook by Hunter S. Thompson: a 29.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Scott Sowers, released May 3, 2013, on the Social Science and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 29.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Scott Sowers
- Released
- May 3, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9781470347390
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time as an audiobook?
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time runs 29.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 19.5 hours.
Is The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time?
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time is narrated by Scott Sowers.
Is The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 19.5 hours, saving 9.7 hours.