Book description
Imagine a story whispered across 10,000 years, carried not on paper but in the human voice, surviving floods, fires, and time itself. That's the astonishing heart of Patrick Nunn's The Edge of Memory, and listening to it as an audiobook is pure magic. Nunn, a geographer with a storyteller's soul, doesn't just tell us these tales exist-he makes us hear them, and then proves they're backed by science.
We live in an age obsessed with written proof, dismissing oral history as fuzzy memory. Nunn flips that on its head. He focuses on Aboriginal Australian stories of coastal drowning, tales of a lost landscape submerged by rising seas-stories that weren't just myths, but precise maps of the past. Geologists are now finding the same evidence in sediments and shorelines, proving these narratives weren't embellished. They were records, passed down with astonishing accuracy across generations. It's humbling.
The audiobook shines here. You hear Nunn's calm, thoughtful voice weaving through these ancient accounts, making you lean in. He expands beyond Australia, exploring similar oral histories from Europe and India-stories of volcanic eruptions and shifting coastlines that science is now validating. It's not just history; it's a revelation about how humans actually navigated climate change long before we had satellites or data sets.
What makes this so vital today? Nunn argues these stories aren't relics-they're blueprints for resilience. They show us how communities observed, remembered, and adapted to environmental shifts over millennia. In a world scrambling to understand climate chaos, this book offers a radical perspective: our ancestors weren't just surviving; they were listening to the earth, and their knowledge was encoded in the stories they told. We've been dismissing this wisdom for centuries, thinking only written words mattered.
Listening to this audiobook, you feel the weight of those stories. You imagine the elders speaking by firelight, the young ones committing the details to memory, knowing a flood might come again. Nunn doesn't just analyze-he makes you feel the profound connection between the spoken word and the living earth. It's a reminder that memory isn't fragile; it's a living, breathing archive, waiting to be heard.
This isn't a dry academic text. It's an urgent, beautifully told conversation about how we've always known more than we realized. It reshapes how you think about history, science, and even your own memories. By the time the final chapter ends, you'll hear the world differently-listening for the echoes of the past in every whisper of the wind, every shift in the landscape. It's a gift of perspective we desperately need. Press play, and let these ancient voices guide you.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience