Travel audiobooks

Hometown Tales: Yorkshire

By: Cathy Rentzenbrink & Victoria Hennison

Narrated by: Cathy Rentzenbrink & Elizabeth Bower

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Original tales by remarkable writers

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning... Read more

Hometown Tales: South Coast

By: Gemma Cairney & Judy Upton

Narrated by: Nicole Davis & Rachel Atkins

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Original tales by remarkable writers

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning... Read more

Hometown Tales: Lancashire

By: Jenn Ashworth & Benjamin Webster

Narrated by: Dean Williamson

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Original tales by remarkable writers

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning... Read more

Hometown Tales: Birmingham

By: Maria Whatton & Stewart Lee

Narrated by: Alexander Bean

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Original tales by remarkable writers

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning... Read more

The Call of the Road

By: Chris Sidwells

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. A sole cyclist battling over a pass high in the mountains is one of the most romantic of sporting images. In the past 150 years road cycling has been dominated by a series of iconic people who have redefined... Read more

My Twenty-Five Years in Provence

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer beauty, the ancient... Read more

The Encantadas

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Mark Owen

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Encantadas (or Enchanted Isles), is a series of ten descriptive sketches, and a reminiscence from Melville's sailor days revealing the ecologically pristine Galapagos Islands as both enchanting and horrifying. Containing some of Melville's most memorable prose, The Encantadas were a critical success at a time when Melville's fortunes were... Read more

Backpacking

By: Wesley Jones

Narrated by: Rick Paradis

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A handy guide to make your backpacking journey better!It has become possible for a larger group of people: To travel the entire world with a single backpack, some items, and a limited amount of money. Some people still show off their income when traveling, but even with a low budget, “backpacking” is an affordable, doable way of living. And yes,... Read more

Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools

By: Victoria Twead

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

If Joe and Vicky had known what relocating to a tiny mountain village in Andalucía would REALLY be like, they might have hesitated. They can have no idea of the culture shock in store for them… no idea they'll become reluctant chicken farmers and own the most dangerous cockerel in Spain… no idea they'll help capture a vulture and be rescued by a... Read more

How to Fly with Less Stress

By: Rev. Dr. Cindy Paulos Msc.D

Narrated by: Cindy Paulos

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This informative, entertaining collection of tips covers every step of the process, from planning your trip and stopping the mail at home, to deep breathing, affirmations and simple exercises you can do in your seat when things in the cabin get turbulent or boring.“How to Fly with Less Stress” gives you an holistic approach to air travel, with... Read more

Happísland

By: Cédric H. Roserens

Narrated by: Angus Freathy

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A first shot of Iceland with an aftertaste of rotten shark. A small unpretentious introduction to Iceland's way of life, focused on Reykjavík. Swiss superspy Hans-Ueli Stauffacher is sent one full calendar year to Iceland to understand why Icelandic people are happier than Swiss people... Read more

Mallorcas letzte Geheimnisse - Inselwissen, das selbst Mallorca-Kenner verblüfft

By: Jürgen Mayer

Narrated by: Jürgen Mayer

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie glauben, Sie kennen Mallorca wirklich? Sie werden bei diesem Hörbuch staunen, was Sie alles noch nicht wissen - über Ihre Lieblingsinsel! Oder kennen Sie denjenigen, der jeden Tag mehr als 200 Kilo Sand vom Traumstrand "Es Trenc" klaut? Können Sie sagen, wann der pünktliche Wind die Inselmitte durchweht? Oder warum das "magische Auge"... Read more

Arabian Sands

By: Wilfred Thesiger

Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Traveling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, The Empty Quarter, Oman and parts of the then Trucial States, crossing and re-crossing around 250,000... Read more

Figures in a Landscape

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances; from thrilling adventures in Africa to literary writings from Theroux's rich and expansive personal reading. Collectively... Read more

The Traveling Feast

By: Rick Bass

Narrated by: Rick Bass

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Rick Bass decided to thank all of his writing heroes in person, one meal at a time, in this "rich smorgasbord of a memoir . . . a soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute" (New York Times Book Review).

From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose, lineage has... Read more

Alone Time

By: Stephanie Rosenbloom

Narrated by: Stephanie Rosenbloom

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Paris (or anywhere else, really) a table for one can be a most delightful place." --Alone Time, as seen in The New York Times

A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo

In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative,... Read more

Eating My Heroes

By: Rick Bass

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations

"Some years later, George Plimpton offered to punch me in the nose," recounts Rick Bass, remembering fondly a conversation with the famed Paris Review editor in his office, in... Read more

Five-Finger Discount

By: Helene Stapinski

Narrated by: Helene Stapinski

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in rough-and-tumble Jersey City “will steal your heart” (People)

With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls “a... Read more

Arctic Sven

By: Loren Jay Chassels

Narrated by: David A. Conatser

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of a young EMT / school teacher who found inner harmony on the Appalachian Trail Read more

Travel Tales: Women Alone — The #MeToo of Travel!

By: Michael Brein

Narrated by: Gary Roelofs & Rose Dupouy

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS SERIESThese are the true travel tales of solo women travelers being sexually harassed and assaulted in their travels around the world and what some of them were able to do about it! This is a book about how to survive as a solo woman traveler abroad.They are shouting “Me Too!” to you through these pages! No one should be subjected to the... Read more

See You Again in Pyongyang

By: Travis Jeppesen

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim, revealing North Koreans' "entrepreneurial spirit, and... Read more

Groovin' - Abridged

By: Rich Israel

Narrated by: J. R. Moorland

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Do you have the courage to follow your dreams? In this delightful coming-of-age memoir, Rich Israel takes off on a journey of self-discovery during the late 1960s. Renouncing societal norms, he hitchhikes across the country, works at a circus, and rides a horse hundreds of miles through the Rocky Mountain wilderness—all the while, the draft and... Read more

Camping Tips

By: Wesley Jones

Narrated by: Rick Paradis

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Great. You’re going on a camping trip. Now what? Many people have no clue what to do when they’re camping. When this is the case, it can turn into a boring, frustrating downgrade from a hotel room, or even your own home. But camping can be fun and interesting in a variety of ways. Learn to make the most of your experience in nature and become a... Read more

By the Smoke and the Smell

By: Thad Vogler

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We care so much about the food we eat: how it is made, by whom, and where. Yet we are far less careful about the spirits we drink, often allowing the biggest brands with the most marketing dollars to control the narrative. In By the Smoke and the Smell, Vogler is here to set the record straight. This remarkable memoir is the first book to ask... Read more