The Light It Follows
How One Arctic Tern Outruns Winter by Chasing Summer Pole to PoleBy Rowan Cassidy
Length50m
About this audiobook
A fledgling lifts off a cooling Icelandic fjord and points itself at a summer it has never seen. The Light It Follows gathers four true stories of the arctic tern at the scale where the wonder actually lives: the young bird that answers winter by refusing it outright and flying to the far end of the world; the small grey female, older than the boat sent to watch her, who lives two summers in every year; the hunter over the Antarctic ice that gathers more daylight than any creature alive; and the first-time traveller reading a map of sun, magnetism, and polarized light it was never taught. Four stories, about an hour of listening, that turn the longest journey in nature into something intimate enough to hold in one hand.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 23, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Bird That Outran Winter
2Two Summers, One Life
3More Light Than Any Living Thing
4The Map Written in Light
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