Travel audiobooks

Running to the Edge

By: Matthew Futterman

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Gripping . . . the narrative is smooth and immediate, almost effortless in its detail, if occasionally breathless, like a good fast run . . ." --The New York Times Book Review

Visionary American running coach Bob Larsen assembled a mismatched team of elite California runners . . . the start of his decades-long quest for championships, Olympic... Read more

East by West

By: Sir Henry William Lucy

Narrated by: Edith Harson

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In "East by West" we follow Henry Lucy on his travels across the United States and the Far East during 1883. First Volume covers his journeys in America and Japan, including the incredible trip across the Atlantic and the Pacific by a steamer. Second Volume includes his travels in Japan, India and other countries of south-east Asia. Read more

Sagenumwobener Harz

By: Louis Rieche

Narrated by: Paul Behrens

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Sagenumwoben ist der Harz und steht vor allem für das Überirdische. Brocken und Umland bilden den Kern teuflischer Aktivitäten und des Hexenwerks. Die Walpurgisnacht ist ein weiteres Thema vieler Harzsagen. Dabei darf der Teufel natürlich nicht fehlen. Unzählige Orte können dazu spannende Geschichten beitragen. Read more

Faces and Places

By: Sir Henry William Lucy

Narrated by: Edith Harson

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Faces and Places is an eclectic, mostly affectionately humorous collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, depicting events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter "To Those About to Become Journalists" rings as true today as when it was written long ago. Read more

Full Tilt

By: Dervla Murphy

Narrated by: Emma Lowe

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphy’s 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle and the trials, landscapes and cultures she encountered along the way. The route takes her through the valleys and snowy mountain passes of Europe and India to the scorching deserts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the... Read more

Queer Intentions

By: Amelia Abraham

Narrated by: Amelia Abraham

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020

‘Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.’ Owen Jones

Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But... Read more

Her Husband's Mistake

By: Sheila O'Flanagan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Should a woman be ready to forgive and forget to save her marriage? Roxy's not so sure... The riveting new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan. Perfect for readers of Marian Keyes and Kerry Fisher.

When Roxy comes home unexpectedly one day to give her husband Dave a lovely surprise, it's Roxy who gets shock of her life. And all... Read more

Otros rumbos

By: Alfredo Molano

Narrated by: Ernesto Lezama

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Si por algo se caracterizan los libros de Alfredo Molano es por enfrentar a sus lectores con la cara oculta de un país que por lo general los medios desconocen, tergiversan, disfrazan, distorsionan, interpretan mal o simple y llanamente ignoran. Desde 1987, los libros de Molano se han convertido en artículos de primera necesidad para entender la... Read more

Richest Cities in the World

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern times are hard and competition seems to be in the air. Even the most underdeveloped cities seem to be moving ahead rapidly to catch up with the developed ones to earn themselves a place in the prestigious top ten richest cities in the world. Technology has developed fast and is spreading like fire. Governments are spending on their... Read more

Just Ride

By: Ty Hopkins

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tour Divide, a 2,725-mile mountain bike race along the Continental Divide from Banff, Alberta, Canada, to the Mexican border crossing at Antelope Wells, New Mexico, demanded will-breaking efforts day after day, but the race also returned brief moments of euphoria. Most of the time the race felt impossible, and I loved it!

Just Ride is an... Read more

Epic Continent

By: Nicholas Jubber

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020

Award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber journeys across Europe exploring Europe's epic poems, from the Odyssey to Beowulf, the Song of Roland to the Nibelungenlied, and their impact on European identity in these turbulent times. These are the stories that made Europe.

Journeying... Read more

Spying on the South

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Tony Horwitz

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
 
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law... Read more

Explore North Korea

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Baekdu spa, hyongje falls, pegae hill, and the chiangbbai mountain range, are world class attractions that lures in millions of tourists, historians, and explorers to visit North Korea year after year. The number of historically famous destinations, museums, parks and the recreational facilities available in North Korea can only astound the... Read more

The Secret Knowledge of Water

By: Craig Childs

Narrated by: Craig Childs

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Naturalist Craig Childs's "utterly memorable and fantastic" study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post). 

Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the... Read more

Monsieur Mediocre

By: John von Sothen

Narrated by: John von Sothen

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ

Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the... Read more

19 Year Old World Traveler

By: HowExpert & Briana Grenert

Narrated by: Teresa Tucker

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

What began as a wild idea turned into the adventure of a lifetime - this is the story of how I traveled around world at age 19, and who I met on the journey. Cult members and college students, chain smokers and cameramen, this story recounts a slew of traveling adventures and misadventures. It’s about holding your cool while detained in... Read more

Gumbo Life

By: Ken Wells

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the answer is universal: "Momma." The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans—all had a hand in the pot.... Read more

The Danube

By: Nick Thorpe

Narrated by: Nick Thorpe

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar worldThe magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Traveling its full length... Read more

Foreign Correspondence

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent,... Read more

Heida

By: Steinunn Sigurðardóttir

Narrated by: Lucy Paterson

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring story of Icelandic sheep farmer, former model and feminist heroine has become an international bestseller and won both the Icelandic Booksellers' Prize and Women's Literature Prize.

I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable... Read more

The Corner Shop

By: Babita Sharma

Narrated by: Babita Sharma

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
WINNER OF THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARD FOR AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK THAT PROMOTES DIVERSITY

'Nuanced, human and engaging' Nikesh Shukla, Observer
'Full of life, characters, gossip and all the richness of the local community' Sir David Jason
'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater, Observer
'Cleverly links... Read more

Dispatches from the Sweet Life

By: William Powers

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. In his book Twelve by Twelve, Powers lived in an off-grid tiny house in rural North Carolina. In New Slow City, he and his wife, Melissa, inhabited a Manhattan... Read more

La Passione

By: Dianne Hales

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A jubilant celebration of Italy’s outsize impact on culture, from literature to art, music to movies, that “masterfully examines the multitude of reasons why so many people fall in love with Italy and the Italian lifestyle” (Forbes)

Can you imagine painting without Leonardo, opera without Verdi, fashion without Armani, food without the signature... Read more

Newbie World Traveler

By: HowExpert & Sarah Hinds-Friedl

Narrated by: Erin Grassie

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming from a small town in the mountains in California where “traveling” meant driving three hours to the nearest shopping mall, Sarah grew up with an itch to see the world. At 26, she’s visited over 20 countries with no plans of slowing down.Even though she’s seen quite a few places, Sarah isn’t a professional traveler. What she hopes to share... Read more