The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms runs 8.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith and Ellen Archer (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.9 hours, it runs longer than 67% of the 4,073 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith
Nicholas Guy Smith narrates 100 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,207 hours in all.
About as long, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf
705 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) 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 Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms is an audiobook by Naoko Abe: a 8.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Nicholas Guy Smith and Ellen Archer, released March 19, 2019, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Nicholas Guy Smith, Ellen Archer
- Released
- March 19, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction), Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9781984839954
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms as an audiobook?
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms runs 8.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms?
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms is narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith and Ellen Archer.