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The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America by Jon Mooallem

The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America runs 10.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Fred Sanders (about 6.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.3listening hrs
Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)store shelf
2013released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.3 hours of listening.

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2 hours / day6 days
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What our data says

  • At 10.3 hours, it runs longer than 79% of the 4,073 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

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 Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America is an audiobook by Jon Mooallem: a 10.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Fred Sanders, released May 16, 2013, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) and Biology & Chemistry shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.3 hrs
Narrated by
Fred Sanders
Released
May 16, 2013
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction), Biology & Chemistry
ISBN
9781101620311

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America as an audiobook?

The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America runs 10.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.9 hours.

Is The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America?

The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America is narrated by Fred Sanders.

Is The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.9 hours, saving 3.4 hours.