Travel audiobooks
Living the Best Day Ever
By: Hendri Coetzee
Narrated by: Antowan Nothling
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Hendri Coetzee had been a professional kayaker for 15 years but had spent his life venturing into difficult mental and physical territory. He is still regarded as a white-water kayaker legend in his own time and led various expeditions on some of Africa’s wildest rivers. In 2010 he led an expedition of 2 Americans, Ben Stookesberry and Chris... Read more
View audiobookFalling Upwards
By: Richard Holmes
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.Dramatic... Read more
View audiobookAmsterdam
By: Russell Shorto
Narrated by: Russell Shorto
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for... Read more
Provence, 1970
By: Luke Barr
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in... Read more
View audiobookOld Man River
By: Paul Schneider
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history—the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance,... Read more
View audiobookHeidelberg Sagen und Legenden
By: Christine Giersberg
Narrated by: Uve Teschner
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Hören Sie die schönsten Sagen und Legenden der Stadt am Neckar. Heidelberg kann auf eine große Geschichte zurückblicken. Uve Teschner erzählt die schönsten Sagen. Eine Hörbuch-Reise in das sagenhaft Heidelbergen, mit der der Verlag die alte Tradition des Geschichtenerzählens aufgreift und sie mit dem modernen Medium Hörbuch verbindet. Read more
View audiobookRuhrgebiet Sagen und Legenden
By: Christine Giersberg
Narrated by: Uve Teschner
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Mit diesem Hörbuch, präsentiert von der WAZ und dem John Verlag gehen Sie auf eine sagenhafte Reise durch das Ruhrgebiet. Hören Sie die schönsten Sagen und Legenden aus Essen, Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen und vielen weiteren Orten des Ruhrgebietes. Der Pott hat einiges zu erzählen. Hören Sie folgende... Read more
View audiobookThis Other London
By: John Rogers
Narrated by: John Rogers & Russell Brand
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches. Foreword written and read... Read more
View audiobookThe Longest Walk
By: George Meegan
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Most of us have dreamed of being the hero in some great "pedestrian epic," covering great distances unencumbered by the trappings of modern civilization. George Meegan had a similar dream, only his kept him going for seven years and over 19,000 miles. This is his story, a physical and spiritual odyssey. Read more
View audiobookBrasilien
By: Patrick Wolfmar
Narrated by: Marion von Stengel
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Gehen Sie auf eine sagenhafte Reise durch Brasilien und erfahren Sie mehr über die geschichtliche Entwicklung des fünftgrößten Landes der Erde. Marion von Stengel erzählt die schönsten Sagen, Märchen und Mythen der Ureinwohner und vermittelt darüber hinaus zahlreiche Daten und Fakten. Das Hörbuch enthält über zwei Stunden Audio-Material sowie... Read more
View audiobookThe World Made New
By: Marc Aronson
Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine your shock at waking up one morning to a fleet of enormous, otherworldly craft looming over you. And when bizarre aliens begin to emerge-speaking strange gibberish-your heart races even faster. Similar fears may have gripped New World inhabitants when diverse civilizations-separated by a vast ocean-first met. American natives once knew... Read more
View audiobookThe Longest Road
By: Philip Caputo
Narrated by: Pete Larkin
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
September 1996 found Philip Caputo on Barter Island, a wind-scoured rock in the Beaufort Sea populated by two hundred Inupiat and a handful of whites. As he gazed upon an American flag above the only school for a hundred and fifty miles, he marveled that the children in that school pledged allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban... Read more
View audiobookTo the Moon and Timbuktu
By: Nina Sovich
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Catching her reflection in a window spotted with Paris rain, she no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth travelling in... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Train to Zona Verde
By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 16 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A final African adventure from the writer whose gimlet eye and effortless prose have brought the world to generations of readers
Journeying alone, in what he feels will be his last African journey, Paul Theroux encounters a world increasingly removed from both the itineraries of tourists and the hopes of post-colonial independence movements.... Read more
The Hike
By: Don Shaw
Narrated by: Terry Molloy
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Freddy, Phil and Don are three grumpy old men, travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement, at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them.
Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District, come gale, hail, snow or torrential rain. They pass the time bumping into colourful and... Read more
Mit zwei Pferden um die Welt - Abridged
By: Manfred S. Schulze
Narrated by: Manfred S. Schulze
Length: 20 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Reiseerzählung nach Tagebuchaufzeichnungen von der ersten und einzigen Erdumrundung zu Pferde. Ein viereinhalbjähriges Abenteuer zwischen Verzweiflung und Triumph. Ständige Bedrohungen durch Korruption und Willkür, Rücksichtslosigkeit und Straßenräuber, schweißen die Pferde und den Abenteurer zusammen und lassen sie zu einer untrennbaren Einheit... Read more
View audiobookBritty Britty Bang Bang
By: Hugh Dennis
Narrated by: Hugh Dennis
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Hugh Dennis' hilarious and insightful exploration of the changing image of Britain and Britishness will enthral those who love Outnumbered, The Now Show, Mock the Week and quintessentially British humour.
'Utterly readable and laugh-out-loud funny' - Stephen Fry
Hugh Dennis has secretly been worrying about what being "British" meant for nearly a... Read more
Here Is Where
By: Andrew Carroll
Narrated by: Andrew Carroll
Length: 14 hours
Abridged: No
The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll’s fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to each of America’s fifty states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous... Read more
View audiobookLove With a Chance of Drowning
By: Torre DeRoche
Narrated by: Candice Moll
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong?City girl Torre DeRoche isn’t looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He’s just about to cast the dock lines and voyage... Read more
View audiobookWalden on Wheels
By: Ken Ilgunas
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a three-year transcontinental... Read more
View audiobookParis to the Pyrenees
By: David Downie
Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques then trekking 750 miles south to Roncesvalles, Spain, their eccentric route takes 72 days on Roman roads and pilgrimage paths—an 1,100-year-old network of trails leading to the... Read more
View audiobookEssential Spanish in 2 hours with Paul Noble
By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more
View audiobookEssential French in 2 hours with Paul Noble
By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more
View audiobookEssential Italian in 2 hours with Paul Noble
By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more
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