Travel audiobooks
Chasing the Devil
By: Tim Butcher
Narrated by: Nick McArdle
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
For many years Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through. With their wars officially over, Tim Butcher sets out on a journey across both countries, trekking for 350 miles through remote rainforest and malarial swamps, pursuing a trail blazed by Graham Greene in 1935. Weaving history and anthropology with personal... Read more
View audiobookTwo Years Before the Mast
By: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 17 hours
Abridged: No
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840.
While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles that affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow... Read more
Life on the Mississippi
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life on the Mississippi evokes the great river that Mark Twain knew as a boy and young man and the one he revisited as a mature and successful author. Written between the publication of his two greatest novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer... Read more
View audiobookFreiburger Sagen und Legenden
By: Christine Giersberg
Narrated by: Michael Nowack
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Freiburg im Breisgau ist die viertgrößte Stadt Baden-Württembergs und die südlichste Großstadt Deutschlands. Der mitten in der Altstadt gelegene Schlossberg blickt auf eine 2000jährige bewegte Geschichte zurück. Vermutlich errichteten schon die Römer hier einen Wachturm. Im 10. Jahrhundert erbauten die aus Schwaben stammenden Herzöge von... Read more
View audiobookLife on the Mississippi
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The Mississippi River, known as “America’s river,” and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. The popularity of Twain’s steamboat and steamboat pilot on the ever-changing Mississippi has endured for over a century.A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life... Read more
View audiobookTwo Years before the Mast
By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 16 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." Influencing such authors as Conrad and Melville, it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea.Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brigPilgrimfor a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to... Read more
View audiobookVenice
By: Peter Ackroyd
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land. This latest work from the incomparable Peter Ackroyd, like a magic gondola, transports its listeners to that sensual and surprising city.
His account embraces facts and romance,... Read more
Düsseldorfer Sagen und Legenden
By: Nadine Boos
Narrated by: Uve Teschner
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Es war der 23. Mai 1159 als Papst Hadrian IV. verfügte, dass die Bewohner eines kleinen Dorfes einmal im Jahr fünf Schillinge an St. Ursula in Köln abzuführen hätten. Düsseldorf war damals klein, wirtschaftlich aber bereits von Bedeutung. Trotzdem einige Düsseldorfer das Fährrecht besaßen und auch ein Pfarrkirchlein ihr eigen nannten, stand das... Read more
View audiobookUnderground London
By: Stephen Smith
Narrated by: Karen Cass
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; In UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground... Read more
View audiobookOn The Slow Train
By: Michael Williams
Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU
This audiobook will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning... Read more
Travels in Siberia
By: Ian Frazier
Narrated by: Ian Frazier
Length: 20 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains
In Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the... Read more
The Great Railway Bazaar
By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes; the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the Trans-Siberian Express; it describes the many... Read more
View audiobookKarlsruher Sagen und Legenden
By: Christine Giersberg
Narrated by: Uve Teschner
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Blickt man aus der Vogelperspektive auf Karlsruhe, versteht man, warum Karlsruhe auch die Fächerstadt genannt wird. Vom Zentrum, dem Schlosse aus, streben 32 Straßen und Alleen strahlenförmig in alle Himmelsrichtungen. Das erste Stadtgebiet bildeten, einem Fächer gleich, die neun nach Süden laufenden Straßen. Mit dem Bau seiner neuen Residenz... Read more
View audiobookZürcher Sagen und Legenden
By: Anja Lanz & Geraldine von Aarburch
Narrated by: Uve Teschner
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Obwohl sich Kelten, Römer und Alemannen im heutigen Zürich niederließen, wuchs das Gebiet erst unter fränkischer Herrschaft im Mittelalter zu einer größeren Stadt heran. Vorher war Zürich ein Ort mit mehreren Zentren, bestehend aus Großmünster, Fraumünster, Peterskirche und der Pfalz. Das Privileg der Reichsunmittelbarkeit sicherte 1262 die... Read more
View audiobookOne Man's Wilderness
By: Sam Keith & Richard Proenneke
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed...to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin...to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world but content with one's own thoughts and company.
Thousands... Read more
Deutschlandalbum
By: Axel Hacke
Narrated by: Axel Hacke
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"Ein schönes Buch über uns alle." So lobte der Bayerische Rundfunk das "Deutschlandalbum". Axel Hackes Idee war, ein Album über Deutschland anzulegen, mit Fotos und kleinen Geschichten, manchmal nur einem Satz oder einem Bild, wie man das ja auch mit der Familie tut Später schaut man alles an, lacht und staunt und ist gerührt und sagt:So war... Read more
View audiobookA Night to Remember
By: Walter Lord
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The "unsinkable" Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French "sidewalk cafe," private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices—but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers and crew on board.Gliding through a calm sea, disdainful of all obstacles, the Titanic brushed an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later,... Read more
View audiobookThe Ice Cave
By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Gripping true adventure stories - from the Mojave to the Antarctic - reveal one woman's wild affair with the EarthFor Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. The Ice Cave recounts... Read more
View audiobookIn an Antique Land
By: Amitav Ghosh
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of... Read more
View audiobookDiscovering America
By: Various
Narrated by: Robin Field
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This fascinating historical introduction to the Americas, via their first voyagers, reads with all the excitement of a 21st century blockbuster film! From the gripping accounts of Norseman Leif “The Lucky” Ericsson’s journey to the “Vinland” with his treacherous sister, Freydis, to the exuberant letter from Columbus announcing his discovery to... Read more
View audiobookAmazing People of London
By: Charles Margerison
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing People of New York
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Nicolas Bearde, Sarah Wintermeyer, J S Gilbert,...
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Blind Descent
By: James M. Tabor
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earth’s deepest cave—the supercave—remained undiscovered. This is the story of... Read more
View audiobookHow Did You Get This Number
By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always... Read more
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