The Living Light
How a Single Firefly Makes, Keeps, and Survives Its LightBy Rowan Cassidy
Length49m
About this audiobook
On a tidal creek in Southeast Asia, a single tree fills with cold green light - and inside that light is a life almost no one sees. The Living Light follows one firefly down to the scale where the wonder actually happens: the male who loses the beat when a bird crosses the canopy and finds his way back in four pulses; the female in the low leaves whose silent judgement the whole display is built for; the female in the low leaves whose silent judgement the whole display is built for; the armored larva that glows in the mud while it dissolves a snail alive; and the cold chemistry that lets a body make light without fire. Four stories about an hour of listening, that turn a famous spectacle into something stranger abd more intimate than any picture of it.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Tree That Finds Its Way Back
2The One She Is Watching For
3What Begins in the Mud
4Light Without Fire
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