The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter runs 19.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Enn Reitel (about 13.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 19.9 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 40 days |
| 1 hour / day | 20 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 14 days |
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What our data says
- At 19.9 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 4,073 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Enn Reitel
Enn Reitel narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 131 hours in all.
- The Borgias: The Hidden History
- Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
- Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
- When the Doves Disappeared
- The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
About as long, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf
36 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- On the Origin of Species
- The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
- Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
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 Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter is an audiobook by Colin Tudge: a 19.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Enn Reitel, released July 5, 2016, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) and Biology & Chemistry shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 19.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Enn Reitel
- Released
- July 5, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction), Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9781524734039
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter as an audiobook?
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter runs 19.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.3 hours.
Is The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter?
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter is narrated by Enn Reitel.
Is The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.3 hours, saving 6.6 hours.