Travel audiobooks

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. Read more

Bern Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Geschichte der Stadt Bern im Kanton Bern beginnt vermutlich bereits in der zweiten Hälfte des zweiten Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Damals lag auf der Engehalbinsel eine keltische Siedlung der Helvetier. Münzfunde und Ausgrabungen aus der römischen Zeit belegen, dass auf der Halbinsel eine gallo-römische Siedlung bestand, die jedoch zwischen 165 und... Read more

The Ragged Edge of the World

By: Eugene Linden

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Eugene Linden has written numerous critically acclaimed works on the environment. In The Ragged Edge of the World, Linden recounts his experiences in locales ranging from Vietnam to Antarctica, offering an intimate look at creatures and cultures struggling to adapt to globalization. Read more

Turn Right at Machu Picchu

By: Mark Adams

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and "discovered" Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site,... Read more

Running with the Kenyans

By: Adharanand Finn

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“A dusty road stretches into the distance like a pencil line across the arid landscape. Lions, rhino, and buffalo roam the plains on either side. But I haven’t come to Kenya to spot wildlife. I’ve come to run.”
 
Whether running is your recreation, your religion, or just a spectator sport, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite... Read more

A Sense of Direction

By: Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to... Read more

Fibber in the Heat

By: Miles Jupp

Narrated by: Miles Jupp

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, MILES JUPP would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during England's Test series in India wasn't his best idea.

By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland and getting a job with the (Welsh) Western Mail, Miles lands the press... Read more

The Juice

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Jay McInerney

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This new collection by the acclaimed novelist—and, according to Salon, “the best wine writer in America”—is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious. 
            For more than a decade, Jay McInerney’s vinous essays, now featured in The Wall Street Journal, have been praised by restaurateurs (“Filled with small... Read more

Mud, Sweat, and Tears

By: Bear Grylls

Narrated by: Tom Patrick Stephens

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bear Grylls is a veritable superhero….The former UK Special Forces paratrooper has braved the world’s harshest environments.”
—Hampton Sides, Outside Magazine“Bear Grylls is one tough, crazy dude.”
—Washington PostAlready a #1 London Sunday Times Bestseller, Mud, Sweat, and Tears is the adrenaline-fueled autobiography of the mega-popular star of... Read more

Travels in Alaska

By: John Muir

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half poet and half geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in Travels in Alaska, a work he was in the process... Read more

La Creek Wildlife Refuge, Martin South Dakota

By: Patricia L Lawrence

Narrated by: JD Streeter

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A few hours drive from most major USA cities, there is a National Wildlife Refuge. Wildlife Refuges are artificial habitats ment to entice wildlife away from farms and cities. Our tour brings us very close to nature. Read more

St. Croix US Virgin Island

By: Patricia L Lawrence

Narrated by: Patricia L Lawrence

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

St. Croix is largest of the three Caribbean islands in the US Virgin Islands. We go off the beaten path on horseback and in a boat. Read more

Mammoth Site of Hot Springs South Dakota

By: Patricia L Lawrence

Narrated by: JD Streeter

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs South Dakota announced in 2011 it now has discoverd 60 specimens of prehistoric animals in this unique paleontological site, where more than 26,000 years ago, large Columbian and woolly mammoths were trapped and died in a spring-fed pond: now the in-situ Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Dr. Larry... Read more

African Queen - Ein Abenteuer (Gekürzte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Helge Timmerberg

Narrated by: Helge Timmerberg

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Afrika oder die Liebe. Was ist gefährlicher? Helge Timmerberg, Abenteurer und Globetrotter, hat den letzten ihm noch unbekannten Kontinent bereist, sieben Monate lang, von Nord nach Süd, von Ost nach West. Afrika lag vor ihm für eine Großwildjagd nach Geschichten. In den Großstädten inspizierte er die Hölle auf Erden, in der Serengeti das... Read more

The Oregon Trail

By: Francis Parkman

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the classic account of Francis Parkman’s rugged trip over the eastern part of the Oregon Trail with his cousin Quincy Adams Shaw in the spring and summer of 1846. They left St. Louis by steamboat and traveled on horseback, in company with guides and occasionally other travelers. They encountered storms and buffalo hunts, meeting Indians,... Read more

Paris in Love

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Eloisa James

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Wilde in Love, a joyful chronicle of a year in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Paris.

“What a beautiful and delightful tasting menu of a book: the kids, the plump little dog, the Italian husband. Reading this memoir was like wandering through a Parisian patisserie in a dream. I... Read more

Wild

By: Cheryl Strayed

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
 
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon... Read more

The Ice Balloon

By: Alec Wilkinson

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this grand and astonishing account, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon. Called by a British military officer “the most original and remarkable attempt ever made in Arctic... Read more

Ein Bummel um die Welt - Abridged

By: Richard Katz

Narrated by: Andreas Wilde

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Mein Buch gilt denen, die Schritt gehen und nicht galoppieren, denen, die atmen und nicht keuchen" (Richard Katz, 1929) Der ganz persönliche Blick eines Abenteurers mit Stil auf eine Welt im Umbruch. Intelligent, humorvoll und stets mit dem Menschen im Mittelpunkt. "Salz in der Luft und Möwen ums Schiff! Fahren wir los!" (Richard Katz) Read more

Salzburger Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Das zauberhafte Salzburg, durch das die Salzach fließt, ist Landeshauptstadt des gleich­namigen Bundeslandes und liegt inmitten des Salzburger Beckens. Iuvavum lautete der Name der Stadt zu Zeiten der Römer. Im 6. Jahrhundert erfolgte die Besiedelung der Gegend durch die Bajuwaren. 696 erfuhr Salzburg eine Neugründung als Bischofssitz und wurde... Read more

Touching The Void

By: Joe Simpson

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott & Daniel Weyman

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For... Read more

Whatever You Do, Don't Run

By: Peter Allison

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top -safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the
wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry -elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals—herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides
whose outrageous... Read more

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Paul Garcia

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity,... Read more

Angkor

By: Pierre Loti

Narrated by: Olivier Lecerf

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Pierre Loti fait le voyage d'Angkor en 1901, pèlerinage qui répond à un rêve d'enfant et révèle le sens de toute une existence. C'est une véritable leçon de sagesse qui arrive au crépuscule d'une vie pour le mettre en valeur. Les pensées mélancoliques du voyageur et les descriptions de ce site incomparable, témoin ultime de la civilisation... Read more