Travel audiobooks

Winds of the Steppe

By: Bernard Ollivier

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking listeners from the snows of the Pamir Mountains to the backstreets of Kashgar—a Central Asian city that could be the setting for One Thousand and One Nights—to the Tian Shan Mountains to the endless Taklamakan and Gobi Deserts of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Bernard Ollivier continues his epic foot journey along the Great... Read more

Emily in Paris: Paris, J'Adore!

By: Emily in Paris

Narrated by: Rebecca LaChance

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The official authorized companion to the much-loved Netflix show Emily in Paris.

Paris, J'Adore! is Emily Cooper's diary about her life in France so far. From leaving her boyfriend in Chicago to starting at marketing firm Savoir in Paris, it reveals all the thrill, fear and confusion Emily experiences as she embarks on her new life. She becomes... Read more

License to Travel

By: Patrick Bixby

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the surprising global history of how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience to define the modern world.

License to Travel exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.

Patrick Bixby examines the passports of artists and... Read more

The Birth of the West

By: Paul Collins

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 21 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne’s empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins,... Read more

Drumul către Little Dribbling

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Vlad Robaș

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Cîştigător al National Geographic Traveller Reader Award pentru cea mai bună carte de călătorie a anului 2016 După succesul Însemnărilor de pe o insulă mică, Bill Bryson porneşte într-o nouă călătorie de explorare a Marii Britanii, de data aceasta de-a lungul "Liniei Bryson", un traseu imaginar stabilit chiar de el între punctele cele mai... Read more

Însemnări de pe o insulă mică

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Vlad Robaș

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

După o şedere de mai bine de douăzeci de ani în Marea Britanie şi înainte de a se întoarce în Statele Unite împreună cu familia, Bill Bryson porneşte într-o călătorie de rămas-bun, un fel de tur al insulei care i-a fost atîta vreme cămin. Folosind mijloacele de transport în comun şi făcînd drumeţii ori de cîte ori i se iveşte ocazia, autorul... Read more

Continentul uitat. America micilor oraşe

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Vlad Robaș

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

După ce a petrecut zece ani în Anglia, Bill Bryson vrea să-şi rememoreze copilăria, aşa că pleacă din locul în care s-a născut, Des Moines, Iowa, într-o călătorie prin 38 dintre statele americane, pe care o documentează cu mult umor. Autorul speră să se reîntîlnească cu peisajele idilice ale copilăriei sale, însă găseşte lanuri nesfîrşite de... Read more

Old Roads, New Friends

By: Adam G. Fleming & Dr. Jonathan Bornman

Narrated by: Adam G. Fleming

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Old Roads, New Friends," author Adam G. Fleming, "the friendliest guy on the Camino," shares his reflections on El Camino de Santiago, a 200-mile hike from Porto, Portugal to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. IN spite of spending a great deal of time alone, the author finds friendships with other pilgrims developing at warp speed. Fleming... Read more

Out of Istanbul

By: Bernard Ollivier

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon retirement at the age of sixty-two, and grieving his deceased wife, renowned journalist Bernard Ollivier felt a sense of profound emptiness: What do I do now? While some see retirement as a chance to cash in their chips and settle into a comfy armchair, Ollivier still longed for more. Searching for inspiration, he strapped on his gear,... Read more

The Traces

By: Mairead Small Staid

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a... Read more

Haunted in America

By: Leslie Rule

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From best-selling author Leslie Rule comes a collection of stories about things that go bump in the night — true accounts collected from her years of research on ghostly encounters in the United States, including revised and updated content in Rule's singular voice.

Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere in between, you’ll find a... Read more

Cómo viajar barato - Abridged

By: Juanjo Ramos

Narrated by: Juanjo Ramos

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

¿Viajar por el mundo es lo que siempre has soñado? Aunque muchos piensen que viajar es un lujo, todo el mundo se merece una escapada de vez en cuando sin poner su cuenta del banco en números rojos ni endeudarse. Este audiolibro te demostrará que no es necesario tener mucho dinero para viajar.
Esta guía te propone las principales formas de viajar... Read more

Hidden Nature

By: Michael Ray Taylor

Narrated by: Michael Ray Taylor

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021

More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of... Read more

Himalaya

By: John Keay

Narrated by: Nick Holbek

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions.

Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet, and makes the case that it is one of our most essential – and endangered – wonders.

More rugged and elevated... Read more

Bibliomaniac

By: Robin Ince

Narrated by: Robin Ince

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A unique, funny picture of Britain... A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.' Richard Osman

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing, he decided instead to go on a tour of over a hundred... Read more

Blue Portugal and Other Essays

By: Theresa Kishkan

Narrated by: Nina Richmond

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies, medical histories, and early land surveys together with insights from music, colour theory, horticulture,... Read more

The Notorious Guide to Britain

By: Paul Donnelley

Narrated by: Nick Biadon

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Britain. Within its pages you will find love and romance, murder and mayhem, royalty, aristocrats and commoners, politics and politicians, sex and scandal, sporting triumphs and sporting disasters, millionaires and eccentrics, film stars and train... Read more

The Last Overland

By: Alex Bescoby

Narrated by: Alex Bescoby

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"In 1955, a young TV producer named David Attenborough was approached by six recent graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities determined to drive the entire length of Eurasia, as it was then known, from London to Singapore. Many tried this before, but none succeeded. Sensing this time might be different, Attenborough gave The Oxford and... Read more

You Are My Sunshine

By: Sean Dietrich

Narrated by: Sean Dietrich

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.A laugh-out-loud funny true story of a loving relationship, a grand adventure, and a promise kept. It was only a few years after the starry-eyed young couple got married when scary news threatened to take the wind out of their sails. But Sean Dietrich's wife, Jamie, wouldn't let it. She dared to hope for and plan for a great... Read more

Twenty-One Nights in Paris

By: Leonie Mack

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

'An utterly gorgeous romantic read. It made me want to pack my bags for Paris!' Sandy Barker Irena and Sacha come from two very different worlds. An heiress to a fortune, Ren’s home-from-home is the Ritz, while the handsome and brooding Sacha has grown up in Paris’s less salubrious suburbs. So when an accident brings them together, romance seems... Read more

Kein Ziel ist das Ziel

By: Svenja Reidelbach

Narrated by: Daniela Frauenzimmer

Length: 23 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wir haben keine austüftelte Reiseroute, keine spannend klingende Challenge, keinen detaillierten Plan. Wir wollen einfach nur das machen, worauf wir Lust haben. Und worauf wir als nächstes Lust haben, entscheiden wir jedes Mal neu, wenn es so weit ist. Solange bis wir auf nichts mehr Lust haben. Damit lautet das oberste Ziel der Reise, kein... Read more

The Official Amazing Race Travel Companion

By: Elise Doganieri

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover unique destinations and take your vacation plans to the next level with these travel ideas from the official companion to the blockbuster reality show, The Amazing Race.

For more than twenty years, The Amazing Race has introduced viewers to unique travel destinations in ninety-two countries across the globe. Pairing challenges with... Read more

Seeing Like an Artist

By: Lincoln Perry

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to see art as an artist does. As the mysteries of techniques and styles are revealed, viewing paintings and sculptures becomes a more powerfully enriching experience that will stay in your mind long after you’ve left a museum.A visit to a museum can be overwhelming, exhausting, and unrewarding. Lincoln Perry wants to change that. In eleven... Read more

The Vagabond's Way

By: Rolf Potts

Narrated by: Rolf Potts

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding

For readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they’re currently on, The Vagabond’s Way explores... Read more