When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time audiobook runs 11.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Julian Elfer (about 7.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.6 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 4,073 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Julian Elfer
Julian Elfer narrates 159 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,491 hours in all.
About as long, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf
476 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time is an audiobook by Michael J. Benton: a 11.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Julian Elfer, released October 27, 2020, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Julian Elfer
- Released
- October 27, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781705225066
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How long is the When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time audiobook?
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time runs 11.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.7 hours.
Is the When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time audiobook free?
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Who narrates When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time?
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time is narrated by Julian Elfer.
Is When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.7 hours, saving 3.9 hours.