The Eternal Traveler
A story of one atomBy Artur Kierach
Length1h 30m
About this audiobook
What if the atoms inside your body had lived a thousand lives before you?
The Eternal Traveler tells the story of a single carbon atom on a journey spanning billions of years. Born in the heart of a dying star, it drifts through space, becomes part of oceans, forests, dinosaurs, and eventually a human being. Civilizations rise and fall, species appear and disappear, yet the atom continues its silent voyage through time.
Through science, philosophy, and imagination, the story reveals a profound truth: nothing in nature truly disappears. Matter only changes form.
The carbon in your breath may once have been part of an ancient tree, a prehistoric creature, or the air inhaled by someone who lived thousands of years ago. And long after we are gone, it will continue its journey.
Thought-provoking and deeply reflective, The Eternal Traveler invites listeners to see life from a cosmic perspective — where birth and death are not endings, but transformations in an endless cycle of matter.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction
Length1 hr 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Start
86-Transformations
2Prologue
97-Man
31-The pulse of the oceans
108-The present
42-At the border of worlds
119-The essence of contradiction
53-The first leaves
1210-The future
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64-The amphibians
1311-Epilogue
75-The age of dinosaurs
14End
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