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When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be by Martin Williams

When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be audiobook runs 6 hours unabridged, narrated by Michael J. Wells (about 4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

6listening hrs
Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)store shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 6 hours of listening.

Days to finish When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be at common listening paces
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30 min / day12 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 6 hours, it is shorter than 62% 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

When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be is an audiobook by Martin Williams: a 6-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael J. Wells, released October 5, 2021, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
6 hrs
Narrated by
Michael J. Wells
Released
October 5, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
ISBN
9780691234786

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be audiobook?

When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be runs 6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4 hours.

Is the When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be audiobook free?

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Who narrates When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be?

When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be is narrated by Michael J. Wells.