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Ocean

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Ocean

By: Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
Narrated by: Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
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Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the earth's future.

Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder, and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet—the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate, and creates the air we breathe. This book showcase the oceans' remarkable resilience: they can, and in some cases have, recovered the fastest, if we only give them the chance.

Drawing a course across David Attenborough's own lifetime, Ocean takes listeners on an adventure-laden voyage through eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species, and the most astounding discoveries of the last 100 years, to a future vision of a fully restored marine world—one even more spectacular than we could possibly hope for. Ocean reveals the past, present and potential future of our blue planet. It is a book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed.

©2025 Sir David Attenborough and Colin Butfield (P)2025 Grand Central Publishing Best of 2025 Conservation Ecosystems & Habitats Editors Select Environment Natural History Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Solar System Habitat

Editorial Review

An urgent call to action to protect our oceans
If you’re anything like me, “the next audiobook from Sir David Attenborough” is probably enough for you to add this to your library. Ocean will also be accompanied by a nature documentary and come out in time for Attenborough’s 99th birthday, which makes this audiobook truly special. As the world’s leading broadcaster and conservationist, Sir David has seen and filmed in just about every major ocean habitat there is. But rather than simply reporting on the creatures that make our oceans so special, Attenborough and his longtime collaborator Colin Butfield dive into the urgent need to protect and restore our oceans as a means to safeguard the planet from climate disaster. Though it might sound scary, it’s also a message of perseverance and hope, because the science shows that our oceans are so much more resilient than we ever could have imagined.—Michael C., Audible Editor

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I liked how they chaptered the book in a way that made the possible solutions for improving our oceans easier to understand.

Terrific and new

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Amazing stories chronicle the diversity of the ocean surrounding us. Unfortunately despite the authors’ optimism, I’m concerned that we are moving in the wrong direction with increased interest in unrestricted deep sea mining.

Amazing stories

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Learned how much life is in the Antarctic and vital it’s to our ecosystem and carbon emissions elimination. The impact of mangroves and Sea kelp in our oceans. What an enlightening listen

Absolute legend at 100

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I loved it! As a conservation nut I have been to many of these places and learned even more, it was truth mixed with optimistic hope.

I learned so much and loved the switching speakers narration.

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I’ve been a fan of David Attenborough for years and always watch his nature documentaries. He is an international treasure and I’ve learned so much from the various series he’s presented, this on especially so.

The hope for a potential future of our planet.

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this book is of epic importance. Should be read by Young and old, but especially the young as they are in the most likely time of their lives to work on this issue.

Exquisitely read. And such an urgent and important topic.

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I love story about our ocean, it's current condition and race to save it. there is hope there and I also hoping this book can encourage all to save our world

Amazing works

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I enjoy listening to Richard Attenborough. He could read the phone book and I would find it entertaining. The other reader, though not terrible, was a bit disconcerting.

Another fascinating tour of our blue planet.

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Very well done and wished I could of seen a video. Very easy to listen to. Although my only think is the respective use of the Hawaiian names over and over. I loved imigary and descriptions of the animals, experiences, and the places were very cool to imagine Enjoyed a lot

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I was looking for interesting information on the ocean, not a biography about how humans have ruined it.

I was looking for interesting information on the ocean, not a biography about how humans have ruined it.

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