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We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken-Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever by Benjamin Mee

We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken-Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken-Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever audiobook runs 8.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Gildart Jackson (about 5.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.2listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.2 hours of listening.

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30 min / day17 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.2 hours, it runs longer than 56% of the 10,266 Memoirs 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

We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken-Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever is an audiobook by Benjamin Mee: a 8.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Gildart Jackson, released May 2, 2011, on the Memoirs shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.2 hrs
Narrated by
Gildart Jackson
Released
May 2, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs
ISBN
9781481571494

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken-Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever audiobook?

We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken-Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever runs 8.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.5 hours.

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Who narrates We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken-Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever?

We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken-Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever is narrated by Gildart Jackson.