The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene runs 9.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Walter Dixon (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 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 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 54% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Walter Dixon
Walter Dixon narrates 308 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,447 hours in all.
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- The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
About as long, on the World shelf
1,135 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
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 Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene is an audiobook by Stephen J. Pyne and Lydia V. Pyne: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Walter Dixon, released September 11, 2012, on the World and Biology & Chemistry shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Walter Dixon
- Released
- September 11, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9781469085418
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene as an audiobook?
The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
Is The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene?
The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene is narrated by Walter Dixon.