Travel audiobooks

Summer at the Chateau

By: Annabel French

Narrated by: Laura Kirman

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

‘A Provencal sun drenched read that conjures up the scent of summer in France.’ Julie Caplin A newly single woman. A tall, dark and handsome stranger. A chateau that keeps bringing them together. What could go wrong? When Lizzie Summers is jilted at the altar, she’s left completely... Read more

Map Addict

By: Mike Parker

Narrated by: Mike Parker

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said…' Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or... Read more

The Heartbeat of the Wild

By: David Quammen

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed author David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature and explores the challenge of balancing the needs of both. For more than two decades, award-winning science and nature writer David Quammen has traveled to Earth's most far-flung and fragile destinations, sending back... Read more

Eksyvä löytää: matkustamisen ja matkallaolon tärkeydestä

By: Anneli Vainio

Narrated by: Tanja Talvensalo

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Hyväntuulinen kirja kaukokaipuusta, seikkailusta ja kotiinpaluusta.Moni meistä tunnistaa itsessään seikkailijan, jota uteliaisuus, uudet kokemukset ja kiehtovat maisemat vetävät maailmalle. Rautatieasemilla katse seuraa lähteviä junia, silmät bongaavat taivaalta lentokoneita, ja merenrannalla horisontissa näkyvä laiva saa sisimmässä aikaan... Read more

Graveyard of the Pacific

By: Randall Sullivan

Narrated by: Lynch Travis

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it. Since then, the commercial importance of... Read more

The Last Ride of the Pony Express

By: Will Grant

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime.  The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit... Read more

Asia—Culture Smart!

By: Culture Smart!

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck & Peter Noble

Length: 18 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to China, Japan, and India. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips on... Read more

Europe—Culture Smart!

By: Culture Smart!

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck & Peter Noble

Length: 24 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to Italy, Germany, and Spain. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips... Read more

The Grey Soul of London

By: Robert Kingham

Narrated by: Robert Kingham

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

‘He who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray’s Inn Road will never find those secrets elsewhere.’ – Arthur MachenThe Grey Soul of London is an audio guided tour. Robert Kingham takes a walk across the worn and hollowed stones of the Angel and Clerkenwell districts of... Read more

An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World

By: Jared Gulian

Narrated by: Jared Gulian

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The hilarious and endearing true tale of two urban Americans who escaped to a tiny olive farm in rural New Zealand.For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and coming to tiny Wellington, New Zealand, was a big enough switch from the bright lights of big cities. So when his partner CJ decided they just had to buy a rundown olive grove in the... Read more

Und sie bewegt sich doch! - Bahngeschichten (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Horst Evers, Dietmar Wischmeyer & Cordula Strat...

Narrated by: Horst Evers, Dietmar Wischmeyer, Johann König, ...

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie wird von der Politik kaputtgespart und gleichzeitig als Klimaretter gepriesen, und vielleicht teilen wir ja alle dieses sonderbare Verhältnis zwischen Geringschätzung und Zuneigung, wenn es um dieses gute alte Verkehrsmittel geht: die Bahn. Wer hätte nicht schon geflucht, wenn sie mal wieder Nena-Style fährt (irgendwo, irgendwie, irgendwann)... Read more

Luis & Lea auf großer Abenteuerreise

By: Melanie Klotz & Norbert Klotz

Narrated by: Alex Bolte

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Luis & Lea gehen mit ihrem Opa Balduin und seiner Freundin Fanny auf große Abenteuerreise. Die beiden Geschwister sind zum ersten Mal ohne ihre Eltern unterwegs und entdecken vier spannende Länder. Ihr Opa war früher Seefahrer und hat überall auf der Welt Freunde, die er mit seinen Enkeln und Fanny besuchen möchte. In dieser spannenden,... Read more

The Lost Art of Being Lost

By: Roger Wheelock

Narrated by: Roger Wheelock

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"A wonderful ramble across worlds that really don't exist anymore. Filled with enormous charm and rare insight." - Michael Elcock"At once wise, thoughtful, intimate, wistful, and loving...(with) much human goodness, a good helping of miracles, and more than a few luminous moments. It is also a cry for reflection on the state of the natural... Read more

Travel Tips

By: Kyle Rasmussen

Narrated by: Kyle Rasmussen

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel Tips by Kyle Rasmussen is a deep look at some of the typical things that every traveler experiences and tips for how to make each aspect of the trip your best trip ever. This true compilation from the mind of an experienced and avid traveler provides insight into travel in the modern world. Mr. Rasmussen teaches readers to use a myriad of... Read more

I Should Have Left the Whiskey

By: Graham Field

Narrated by: Graham Field

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

I Should Have Left the Whiskey is the first book in the Rambling On trilogy – compelling tales from a time when motorcycles were left in the shed and global exploration slowed to the pace of cycling.These diaries divulge two very different journeys in Asia: because progressing into enlightened India required some back-pedalling through darkest... Read more

Mighty Bad Land

By: Bruce Luyendyk

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to prevail in Antarctica?



Four geologists and two mountain guides face the brutal beauty of West Antarctica eight hundred miles from the United States main base. Their search reaches far into the treacherous mountains of Marie Byrd Land. Over six weeks of living in tents and traveling by snowmobile, the team endures endless cold... Read more

Brave Men

By: Ernie Pyle

Narrated by: Michael Brainard & David Chrisinger

Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic, human-scale account of the soldiers who fought in World War II, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ernie Pyle—America’s most famous and most loved war correspondent—featuring a new introduction by David Chrisinger, the author of the new Ernie Pyle biography, The Soldier's Truth

A Penguin Classic

When America entered World War II, Ernie Pyle... Read more

Apron Strings

By: Jan Wong

Narrated by: Anne Glatt

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn’t keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. On their journey,... Read more

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop

By: Alba Donati

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller

Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recounting her experience opening a bookshop in a village in Tuscany.

Alba Donati was used to her hectic life working as a book publicist in Italy—a life that made her happy and allowed her to meet prominent international authors—but... Read more

The Soldier's Truth

By: David Chrisinger

Narrated by: David Chrisinger

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a best book of 2023 by Booklist

A beautiful reckoning with the life and work of the legendary journalist Ernie Pyle, who gave World War II a human face for millions of Americans even as he wrestled with his own demons

At the height of his fame and influence during World War II, Ernie Pyle’s nationally syndicated dispatches from combat zones... Read more

SUBIENDO ESPAÑA

By: Fernando Camacho

Narrated by: Irene Fernández

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro va más allá de las montañas. Más allá de la complejidad de plantearse un reto y de llevarlo hasta el final. Más allá de personas habituadas a la naturaleza y de las que que sueñan con dar ese salto. Donde quiere hurgar el libro es en la necesaria obligación que tenemos de PASAR A LA ACCIÓN.Subiendo España son 52 maneras de buscar... Read more

The Manaslu Adventure

By: Mark Horrell

Narrated by: Mark Horrell

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The mountain gods were protective of Manaslu, a two-pronged peak in the Nepal Himalaya, and one of the world’s fourteen 8,000m peaks.Many years ago, a Japanese team tried to climb it, but the gods had sent an avalanche in their wake which destroyed a monastery and set the local people against them. When they returned the next year, they were met... Read more

The Seafaring Life

By: Bob Bitchin

Narrated by: Bradford Rogers

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Seafaring Life is not for everyone, but for those who live the life there is no substitute!"The Seafaring Life" is Bob’s third book of insights into what the cruising lifestyle is all about. What makes people get aboard a boat about the same size as a jail cell and sail out onto the most inhospitable place on Earth, the Ocean! Where there... Read more

The French Art of Living Well

By: Cathy Yandell

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Cathy Yandell's The French Art of Living Well is a delightful look at French culture, from literature to cuisine to humor and more, showing how the French have captured that magic elixir known as joie de vivre.



What is joie de vivre, and why is it a fundamentally French concept?



In search of those ineffable qualities that make up the joy of... Read more