Travel audiobooks

Istanbul

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.  

"Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World

A... Read more

Healthy Living in the Catskills

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua & Lorie Kellogg

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this two-hour public-radio documentary, husband and wife Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) and Lorie Kellogg explore the rural byways within four miles of their home in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York State and find local business owners working to promote healthy lifestyles that have a national impact.1. Sheldon Lublin has... Read more

Flying with Confidence - Abridged

By: Patricia Furness-Smith

Narrated by: Patricia Furness-Smith

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fearful flyers need fear no more! This soothing hour-long relaxation programme, read by top psychologist and flying expert Patricia Furness-Smith, provides proven techniques for controlling anxiety, claustrophobia and panic. To be used both before and during flights to help you feel confident and in control from take off to landing, it... Read more

Extreme Frontiers

By: Charley Boorman

Narrated by: David John

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Charley Boorman is back on his bike exploring the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man.

Canada is a country of extremes, and Charley knows all about pushing the limits. He goes dirt biking in New Brunswick, dives through old shipwrecks in Tobermory and rides along Butch Cassidy's... Read more

Round About the Earth

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to
circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving,
flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The
story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few
survived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with five... Read more

Schottland Sagen und Legenden

By: Patrick Wolfmar

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die erste Besiedlung des Gebietes im Nor­den der Britischen Inseln begann vor etwa 12.000 Jahren. Eine Landbrücke verband damals noch das Festland mit den heutigen Inseln. Ernsthafte Konflikte verursachten die Römer, die 80 n. Chr. nach Schottland vordrangen und versuchten die Gebiete zu erobern. Hier zeigte sich zum ersten Mal die... Read more

Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde

By: Rebecca Dana

Narrated by: Rebecca Dana

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . . A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to begin her destiny. For a time, life turned out exactly as... Read more

Here, There, Elsewhere

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth, and Roads to Quoz, a dazzling collection of travel tales from the road.

Here, There, Elsewhere draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Personally selected by the writer, these pieces take us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to... Read more

Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a... Read more

Venise

By: Jules Lemaire

Narrated by: Colette Allès

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Venise, 1883. Jules Lemaire, voyageur cultivé, se rend quelques jours à Venise pour savoir si cette ville est à la hauteur des éloges qu'en font les poètes et écrivains depuis toujours. Après une arrivée quelque peu mouvementée et la recherche désespérée de sa chambre d'hôte dans le labyrinthe des ruelles et des impasses, notre visiteur finit... Read more

Le Mont Saint-Michel

By: Jules Lemaire

Narrated by: Colette Allès

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Mont-Saint-Michel, extrait d'un carnet de voyage. Suivez le périple de Jules Lemaire, voyageur émérite, cultivé et curieux, dans la baie du Mont-Saint-Michel : du trajet rocambolesque pour relier Pontorson au Mont, pour finir par la visite détaillée de ce lieux mythique. Mieux qu'un guide, ce récit de voyage vous plonge au cœur de l'âme du... Read more

Amazing People of Italy - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As well as being famous for its fine artists and great writers, Italy is also (and consequently) closely associated with romance and passion. The birthplace of the Renaissance has been home to many amazing people. The Amazing People Club invites you to explore their lives in this fascinating title. Be swept away on a musical journey of... Read more

Amazing People of Scotland - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Home to the Loch Ness monster, kilts, clans and medieval castles, Scotland was also the birthplace of some amazing innovators, who made major contributions to our world. We watch television every day but few of us know that it was invented by a Scottish engineer named John Logie Baird. He also developed colour television and other ways of... Read more

Amazing People of Russia - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Russia is the largest country in the world and covers more than one eighth of the globe's inhabited land mass. So, it stands to reason that it has been home to many amazing people. The Amazing People Club takes you on a virtual historical journey into the lives of some of these inspirational contributors to this nation. Famous for her many... Read more

Amazing People of Australia - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Australia has developed to become a model multi-ethnic society. In this collection of life stories from The Amazing People Club, you can gain an insight into how some amazing Australians set the scene and contributed to the country we fondly refer to as Downunder. Embark on a thrilling flight of discovery with Charles Kingsford Smith. His... Read more

Amazing People of Germany - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Germany is a country rich in history for many reasons, both good and bad. In this exciting title, The Amazing People Club would like to bring you face to face with some of the most influential and inspirational people of Germany. Everyone has heard of Beethoven and his masterpieces, but few know that he sought solace in music due to his sad... Read more

Travels with Epicurus

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, Daniel Klein delivers a stirring meditation on the simple pleasures to be found late in life. Traveling to the Greek island of Hydra, Klein set out to discover what could be learned about aging from the sage philosopher Epicurus. Equal parts travel book and guide to living well,... Read more

Bremer Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die Freie Hansestadt Bremen ist das kleinste Land der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und wird zu den Stadtstaaten gezählt. Die ersten Siedlungen der späteren Hansestadt lagen auf einer Düne an der Weser, die sowohl Schutz vor Hochwasser als auch Zugang zu einer Furt bot. Im Jahre 787 unter Kaiser Karl der Große wurde die Stadt Bischofssitz und,... Read more

Münster Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Der friesische Missionar Liudger gründete 793 in der Siedlung Mimigernaford an einer Furt der Aa, ein Kloster, lateinisch: monastarium, woraus der Name Münster entstand. In der Amtszeit Liudgers (805-809), als erster Bischof von Münster, wurde auch mit dem Bau des ersten Doms begonnen. Als Münster 1170 das Stadtrecht erhielt, errichtete man eine... Read more

AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

By: David Miller

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2003, software engineer David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller’s account of this thru-hike along the entire 2,172 miles from Georgia to Maine. On page after page, readers are treated to rich descriptions of the valleys and mountains, the... Read more

Heads in Beds

By: Jacob Tomsky

Narrated by: Jacob Tomsky

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry.

Jacob Tomsky never intended to go into the hotel business. As a new college graduate, armed only with a philosophy degree and a singular lack of career direction, he became... Read more

The Old Ways

By: Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places comes an engrossing exploration of walking and thinking.In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond.... Read more

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: William Roberts

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more

Neuseeland Sagen und Legenden

By: Caroline-Therese Wolff

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Neuseeland ist das Land der Naturwunder, das Land der außergewöhnlichen Tier- und Pflanzenarten und ein Land reich an Sagen, Mythen und Legenden. Die Maori nennen Neuseeland Aotearoa und fühlen sich seit Generationen eng mit ihrem Inselstaat verbunden. So erzählen sie bis heute die alten Sagen und Legenden, mit denen viele Generationen... Read more