The Longest Road

The Longest Road

How the Longest Migration on Earth Erases Winter, Distance, and TimeBy Rowan Cassidy
Michael Caine
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Length50m

About this audiobook

A whole life laid end to end barely touches the dark. The Longest Road pulls back from the single crossing to the shape of an entire arctic tern existence: the looping fifty-thousand-mile route that is long on purpose, drawn to ride the planet's winds; the young bird feeding in a southern sea inside a year with no winter in it at all; the male tending eggs at midnight under a sun that will not set; and the ringed female on the cliff, past thirty years old, carrying a map older than anyone alive to count it. Four stories, about an hour of listening, about distance, time, and a small body that spends its whole life on the lit side of the turning world.

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 Longest Road on Earth
2Where the Year Has no Winter
3The Sun at Midnight
4The Oldest Bird on the Cliff

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