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Length7h 53m
About this audiobook
Perhaps the closest a human being comes to visiting another planet is to descend into the sea. In Soundings, Kennedy Warne connects his lifelong exploration of the underwater world with a global story of humanity's relationship with the sea.
Drawing on more than 20 years of fieldwork for National Geographic, he shares experiences that range from diving with harp seals under the sea ice of the Gulf of St Lawrence to following the legendary 'sardine run' along South Africa's Wild Coast; from watching turret-building ghost crabs in Arabia to witnessing the impact of dynamite fishing in the Philippines; from swimming with crocodiles in the Okavango Delta to finding seahorses on the Eastern Cape.
From myriad underwater encounters a wider conversation emerges about human engagement with the sea. One question dominates: How can we care for and reconnect with the oceans around us?
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Science and Nature
Length7 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byKennedy Warne
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Intro
10Under the Ice
2Epigraph
11Grasping the Blade
3Author's Note
12Song of Rising Isles
4Introduction_The Sounding of the Whale
13Cry the Beloved Ocean
5A Life Aquatic
14Connection and Protection
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6A Tale of Two Oceans
15An Ethic for the Sea
7Beneath Arabian Seas
16About the author
8The Inland Sea
17Outro
9Among Sharks
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