Ocean

Earth's Last Wilderness

By: David Attenborough, Colin Butfield

Narrated by: David Attenborough, Colin Butfield

AN AUDIBLE BEST AUDIOBOOK OF 2025

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 readers 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.

Amazing stories

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.

Masterpiece of the Seas

A storyline of inspiration and promise. Sir David and Colin give us great hope for the future that our oceans do have a chance of recovering and gaining some normalcy from what they once were. Thank you guys for a great inspirational read.

Terrific and new

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

So interesting and thought provoking

I loved listening to David’s voice of course but the narrator was also very good. It was fascinating to learn about the role different oceans play in the overall dynamic of our planet.

Everyone should read this

This book should make you uncomfortable and hopeful at the same time. Interesting presentation of the information keeps you engaged. Excellent narration...except the Hawaiian words.