Travel audiobooks
The Only Road North
By: Erik Mirandette
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
dangerous trek across Africa … a life-and-death struggle … and a call to live a life with no holds barred.Deserts and jungles, rebels and missionaries, bullets and acts of bravery, heaven and hell on earth—these are all part of a young man’s remarkable, true journey through thirteen African countries with his brother and two best friends.Erik... Read more
View audiobookNPR Road Trips: National Park Adventures
By: NPR
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Grand Canyon National Park is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders, with 4.4 million visitors each year. Who keeps them safe, fed, and happy? When the wind blows at White Sands National Monument, legend says the centuries-old ghost of a Mexican maiden appears in the shifting sands. In Yosemite National Park, there’s a guy who tracks road... Read more
View audiobookNPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions
By: NPR
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Prairie Dog Town in western Kansas. The Elvis Is Alive Museum in Wright City, Missouri. The Velvet Museum (“Velveteria”) in Portland, Oregon. A 13-foot Styrofoam scale model of Stonehenge. The Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas . . . or is it in Darwin, Minnesota?
Roadside attractions are the staples of the American road trip. Many are... Read more
NPR Road Trips: Postcards from Around the Globe
By: NPR
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Colin Angus and Julie Wafael, who spent two years circumnavigating the globe using their hands and feet. Turn on the radio in Katmandu and hear music from the 70s. Learn how robot jockeys are solving a human rights problem in Dubai. (It has to do with camel races.) Get ready for carnival in Rio. And walk through old Beijing before it’s... Read more
View audiobookEine Reise durch Schottland
By: Kai Schwind
Narrated by: Matthias Keller, Sabine Mazay & Kai Schwind
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Reise beginnt in Edinburgh mit dem ohrenbeteubenden Knall der "One o'clock" Kanone, die jeden Tag pünktlich abgefeuert wird. Kunst, Kultur und ein Abstecher in die geheimnissvolle Unterwelt von Schottlands Hauptstadt stehen auf dem Programm. Danach erwarten uns die Highlands mit sagenumwobenen Schlössern und atemberaubenden Landschaften. Die... Read more
View audiobookPies and Prejudice - Abridged
By: Stuart Maconie
Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating... Read more
View audiobookLeipziger Sagen und Legenden
By: Katharina Hammann & Kristina Hammann
Narrated by: Heiner Giersberg
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Urpsrünglich bewohnten slawische Siedler, die Sorben das Gebiet mit den Flüssen Elster, Parthe und Pleiße. Die bekannteste urkundliche Erwähnung der Stadt stammt aus dem Jahre 1165 n. Chr., als Markgraf Otto der Reiche Leipzig das Stadtrecht verlieh. Dieses beinhaltete damals weitreichende Privilegien. So entwickelte sich Leipzig, das an den... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost City of Z
By: David Grann
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.
After stumbling... Read more
Unplugged
By: Nancy Whitney-Reiter
Narrated by: Nancy Whitney-Reiter
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Many in our modern society are in the midst of an existential crisis. The ideals of previous generations have gradually eroded, leaving nothing to fill the vacuum. Choices for what to do with one's life are virtually limitless. So how do you find your life's direction? Read more
View audiobookA Sense of the World
By: Jason Roberts
Narrated by: John Curless
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
He was known simply as the 'Blind Traveller' - a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the Australian outback.
James Holman (1786-1857) became 'one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously... Read more
Following the Equator
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Michael Kevin
Length: 20 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Bound on a lecture trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. This vivid chronicle of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain’s eye for the unusual, his wide-ranging curiosity, and his delight in embellishing the facts. The personalities of the ship’s crew and passengers, the... Read more
View audiobookDawdling by the Danube
By: Edward Enfield
Narrated by: Edward Enfield
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Having only been to Germany once before to do National Service, Edward Enfield sets off on his latest cycling trip, carrying few preconceptions but plenty of wit. Determining the route he should take from recommendations scrawled on a napkin, he starts by following the 'Romantic Street' along the banks of the Danube from Passau to Vienna, taking... Read more
View audiobookSunrise with Seamonsters, Part Two
By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Part Two: 1979-1984 includes: The Orient Express; Rudyard Kipling; Railways of the Raj; Graham Greene's Traveling Companion; and Sunrise with Seamonsters Read more
View audiobookThe Sea and the Jungle
By: H. M. Tomlinson
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
One rainy morning in the winter of 1909, a man with an altogether average look about him quit his job at the London Morning Leader, kissed his wife and children goodbye, and took a train to Swansea in Wales, where he talked his way aboard a freighter bound for the upper reaches of the Amazon. Three years later, Tomlinson published a book about... Read more
View audiobookVenice for Lovers
By: Louis Begley & Anka Muhlstein
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Every year for the thirty they have been married, Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In Venice for Lovers, Begley and Muhlstein fashion their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband... Read more
View audiobookRoads to Quoz
By: William Least Heat-Moon
Narrated by: William Least Heat-Moon
Length: 21 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads -- those... Read more
View audiobookIl Milione
By: Marco Polo
Narrated by: Riccardo Fasol
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Il Milione narra dei viaggi compiuti in Oriente (e in particolare in Cina) dai fratelli Niccolò e Matteo Polo, più il figlio del primo, Marco, tra il 1271 ed il 1295. L’opera fu dettata tra il 1298 ed il 1299 dallo stesso Marco (all’epoca prigioniero dei genovesi) ad un suo compagno di cella, il letterato Rustichello da Pisa, rifacitore di poemi... Read more
View audiobookIn Morocco
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guidebook, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the most replete sightseer. The sensation is attainable by any one who will take the trouble to row out into the harbor of Algeciras and scramble onto a little black boat headed across the... Read more
View audiobookSparring with Charlie
By: Christopher Hunt
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
When Christopher Hunt set off in search of Vietnam's notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail, he hardly expected to end up on a rickety, Russian-made motorcycle navigating 5,000 kilometers of paths rarely traveled by tourists and on roads missing from maps.Hunt left the United States expecting to explore the 1,700-kilometer highway that was once the supply... Read more
View audiobookFresh Air Fiend
By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 22 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux adds Fresh Air Fiend, named a New York Times Notable Book, to his highly praised travel writings. A collection of essays, this intimate and fascinating book explores five continents and many cultures, while delving deep into the mind of Theroux. From one adventure to the next, listeners will be... Read more
View audiobookBeschreibung der sogenannten Sächsischen Schweiz - Abridged
By: Manfred Schober & Wilhelm Lebrecht Götzinger
Narrated by: Katrin Martin & Frank Alexander Kunz
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In seinem 1812 unter dem Titel "Schandau und seine Umgebungen - oder Beschreibung der sogenannten Sächsischen Schweiz" veröffentlichten Werk schildert der Pastor Wilhelm Leberecht Götzinger (1758-1818) neben Historischem Interessantes über Flora, Fauna, Topographie und Topologie der Gegend. Götzinger-Kenner Manfred Schober führt in das Leben... Read more
View audiobookTales of a Shaman's Apprentice - Abridged
By: Mark J. Plotkin
Narrated by: Mark J. Plotkin
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice has been called one of the greatest adventure stories ever told.As then-chief ethnobotanist for Conservation International, Mark Plotkin spent almost 15 years tracking the shamans of the northeast Amazon. Their knowledge of healing plants may hold the cure to some of today's most devastating diseases. This... Read more
View audiobookWanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (Gesamtausgabe) - Abridged
By: Theodor Fontane
Narrated by: Gunter Schoß
Length: 19 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In den "Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg" lehrt uns Theodor Fontane das Land und seine Geschichte kennen und lieben. Deren ungebrochene Faszination beruht auf der Mischung aus genauer Beschreibung, kulturhistorischem Hintergrund und literarischer Ausdruckskraft des Erzählers Fontane. Als Hörbuch des Unterlauf & Zschiedrich... Read more
View audiobookWanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (17) - Abridged
By: Theodor Fontane
Narrated by: Gunter Schoß
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Manche Denkmäler, die man vorher kaum beachtet hatte, wurden aufgrund Fontanscher Beschreibungen vor dem Zerfall gerettet. Kloster Lehnin als älteste Gründung der Zisterzienser in der Mark gehört dazu. So wurde von 1871 bis 1878 auch die Klosterkirche nach alten Unterlagen wieder aufgebaut. Heute finden hier im Sommer Konzerte statt. Kloster... Read more
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