Travel audiobooks

Alive

By: Piers Paul Read

Narrated by: Paul Ansdell

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks, they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable.... Read more

Love, Africa

By: Jeffrey Gettleman

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq... Read more

Fire and Sword (Wellington and Napoleon 3)

By: Simon Scarrow

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 21 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

FIRE AND SWORD is the unputdownable third novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. A must read for fans of Robert Harris.

1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor of France, his ultimate aim: to rule Europe. After defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar, he wins a glorious victory against Austria at Austerlitz. He then deposes... Read more

Someone Else's Summer

By: Rachel Bateman

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Julie Halpern and Morgan Matson comes a summer road trip story about adventure, sisters, and finding out who you truly want to be.

Anna's always idolized her older sister, Storm. So when Storm dies in a tragic car accident on the night of her high school graduation, Anna is completely lost and her family is torn apart. That is, until... Read more

Bonjour Kale

By: Kristen Beddard

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of how one expat woman left her beloved behind when she moved to France—her beloved kale, that is. Unable to find le chou kale anywhere upon moving to the City of Light with her new husband, and despite not really speaking French, Kristen Beddard launched a crusade to single-handedly bring kale to the country of croissants and... Read more

We Stood Upon Stars

By: Roger W. Thompson

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Get lost... and find what really matters

You are made for freedom and adventure, friendship and romance. Yet too much of your life is spent unfulfilled at work, restless at home, and bored at church. All the while, you know there is something more. You’ll find some of life’s best moments waiting for you over a campfire, on a river — even in that... Read more

All Over the Place

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home and eat nachos.

Geraldine DeRuiter is the latter. But she won't let that stop her.

Hilarious,... Read more

Tortillas to Totems

By: Sam Manicom

Narrated by: Sam Manicom

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Manicom’s dynamic fourth book is an enticing yet frequently challenging motorcycle journey across the dramatic landscapes of Mexico, the United States and Canada. Sam’s partner Birgit is no longer a novice motorcyclist – riding through southern Africa and South America turned her into a rider capable of facing any challenge. But Sam was... Read more

Lean Travel

By: Paul A. Akers

Narrated by: Paul A. Akers

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Less is More. Give more & take less, from how you act, to how you pack. As you travel with a light heart & light load, you can adapt to the fantastic trade winds of the travel experience. Travel with a full heart and a light suitcase! Read more

Cuba beyond the Beach

By: Karen Dubinsky

Narrated by: Gina Clayton

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate... Read more

The Wayfarer's Handbook

By: Evan S. Rice

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

An inventive and visually-appealing passport to the wide world of travel, The Wayfarer's Handbook doesn't tell readers to go anywhere, it shows them how to go everywhere.
The Wayfarer's Handbook is a treasure trove of information about the art of travel that is specifically crafted for the modern adventurer. The book is an offbeat guide full of... Read more

Will's Red Coat

By: Tom Ryan

Narrated by: Tom Ryan

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus.Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, and mostly blind elderly dog, and brought him home to live with him and Atticus. The only owners Will ever... Read more

The Woman Who Met Her Match

By: Fiona Gibson

Narrated by: Emma Gregory

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the laugh-out-loud Sunday Times bestselling author of When Life Gives You Lemons and The Mum Who Got Her Life Back. Fiona Gibson is guaranteed to put a smile on your face! ‘The voice of modern woman’ Marie Claire After yet another disaster, Lorrie is calling time on online dating. She... Read more

How to Be Married

By: Jo Piazza

Narrated by: Jo Piazza

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.

At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world... Read more

Magnetic City

By: Justin Davidson

Narrated by: Justin Davidson & Eliza Foss

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York magazine’s architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City—a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the city

For nearly a decade, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic... Read more

At Home in the World

By: Tsh Oxenreider

Narrated by: Tsh Oxenreider

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family’s adventure around the world—seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way—she discovers what it truly means to be at home.The wide world is calling.Americans Tsh and Kyle met and married in Kosovo. They lived as expats for most of a decade.... Read more

Falling Uphill

By: Scott Stoll

Narrated by: Scott Stoll

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

** New 10th Anniversary Edition of the best-selling travel memoir.** 2018 Indie Book Award for Memoir (Personal Struggle). ** Re-live Falling Uphill with a new afterword that paints the journey in a light that only time can tell.** New bonus chapters.In one week, Scott Stoll lost his job, his best friend, his girlfriend and his confidence.... Read more

How To Travel on a Budget

By: HowExpert & Meghan Maher

Narrated by: Madelyn Morgan

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

If you could go anywhere in the world, anywhere at all with no strings attached, where would it be? Every person in the world has an answer to that. It may not be far, or exotic, or even famous, but everyone wants to travel somewhere. The biggest hold up for most people is money. It’s not cheap to fly halfway across the world stay in hotels, eat... Read more

The Algonquin Kid

By: Michael Elihu Colby

Narrated by: Michael Elihu Colby

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The true life story of Michael Elihu Colby and his childhood days at Manhattan’s Algonquin Hotel. His grandparents Mary and Ben B. Bodne had traded their southern oil fortune for the legendary but faded Algonquin and restored the hotel’s former glory. Their efforts led to a remarkable renaissance and attracted an overflow of celebrities from the... Read more

Where the Water Goes

By: David Owen

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal

An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.

The Colorado River is an... Read more

Tourism and Travel in Ancient Egypt: Travel Like an Egyptian

By: Mohammed Yehia Zakaria Z. Ahmed

Narrated by: Becky Parker

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How did the ancient Egyptians travel in this quaint old land thousands of years ago?
What sort of transportation did they use?
For how long did they go?
What destinations did they visit?
For which purposes did they travel?
Is it correct to describe the ancient Egyptian travels as “tourism” or not?
According to our current perceptions of tourism,... Read more

Hidden Nature

By: Alys Fowler

Narrated by: Miranda Cook

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart.

Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty where you least expect it. What happens when... Read more

Back Over There

By: Richard Rubin

Narrated by: Richard Rubin

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on Richard Rubin's wildly popular New York Times series, Back Over There is a timely journey, in turns reverent and iconoclastic but always fascinating, through a place where the past and present are never really separated.

In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and... Read more

Beyond the Mountain

By: Steve House

Narrated by: Steve House

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach.

Steve House built his reputation on... Read more