The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline runs 9.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard Trinder (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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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 52% of the 4,743 Military (History) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Richard Trinder
Richard Trinder narrates 112 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,217 hours in all.
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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 Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline is an audiobook by Gillen D'Arcy Wood: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard Trinder, released January 19, 2026, on the Military (History) and Europe shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Richard Trinder
- Released
- January 19, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Military (History), Europe, Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9798318512063
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline as an audiobook?
The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.
Is The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline?
The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline is narrated by Richard Trinder.