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What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing by Karen Magnuson Beil

What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing audiobook runs 5.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross (about 3.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

5.3listening hrs
Non-fiction (Kids)store shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 5.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day11 days
1 hour / day6 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×4 days

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What our data says

  • At 5.3 hours, it runs longer than 77% of the 14,091 Non-fiction (Kids) 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

What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing is an audiobook by Karen Magnuson Beil: a 5.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Jonathan Todd Ross, released October 1, 2019, on the Non-fiction (Kids) and Animals & Nature (Kids) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
5.3 hrs
Narrated by
Jonathan Todd Ross
Released
October 1, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Non-fiction (Kids), Animals & Nature (Kids)
ISBN
9781980051794

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing audiobook?

What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing runs 5.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.6 hours.

Is the What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing audiobook free?

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Who narrates What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing?

What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing is narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross.