Travel audiobooks
China - Culture Smart!
By: Kathy Flower
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The spectacular Beijing Olympics of 2008 signaled China's arrival as a superpower on the world stage. The global economic crisis that followed in 2008-9 saw it become banker to the West, poised to eclipse the United States. This new edition of Kathy Flower's bestselling Culture Smart! China has been revised and updated by the author to take on... Read more
View audiobookManhunt
By: James L. Swanson
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 15 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Now an Apple TV+ Series“A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinThe murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history--the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry... Read more
View audiobookLassoing the Sun
By: Mark Woods
Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks.
On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned... Read more
The Humorless Ladies of Border Control
By: Franz Nicolay
Narrated by: Franz Nicolay
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, AKA "the world's greatest bar band." Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. He meets Polish artists nostalgic for... Read more
View audiobookEthiopia - Culture Smart!
By: Sarah Howard
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Culture Smart! Ethiopia provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing... Read more
View audiobookNorway - Culture Smart!
By: Linda March
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Culture Smart! Norway provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing... Read more
View audiobookLie With Me
By: Sabine Durrant
Narrated by: Kirk Bage
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The truth is, we all tell lies... take a deep breath and get ready for the most twisty, tense and unsettling book of the summer.
'If, like me, you have been longing for a psycho-thriller of genius since you finished Gone Girl, then the wait is finally over. There are very few books in this world that are impossible to put down. Lie With Me is... Read more
Run the World
By: Becky Wade
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
From elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the story of her year-long exploration of diverse global running communities from England to Ethiopia—9 countries, 72 host families, and over 3,500 miles of running—investigating unique cultural approaches to the sport and revealing the secrets to the success of runners all over the... Read more
View audiobookThe Jaguar Smile
By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: John Curless
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice." So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp... Read more
View audiobookNepal - Culture Smart!
By: Tessa Feller
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Culture Smart! Nepal provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes... Read more
View audiobookTanzania - Culture Smart!
By: Quintin Winks
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't pack anxiety in your suitcase! By reading Culture Smart! Tanzania before you go, will ease your travel, help you to make friends and avoid confusion. Culture Smart! Tanzania will help you to understand local manners, customs and laws. Culture Smart! Tanzania goes the extra mile to help you brush up on your cultural small talk and will make... Read more
View audiobookLiving the Yogic Life in a Material World
By: Karan Bajaj
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Most of us have discovered that life is never a straight line. It actually resembles a series of zig-zags. We zig in order to strengthen our creative gifts. We zag in order to provide a roof over our head and food on the table. This conversation looks at the life adventures of a father, a husband, a writer, a corporate marketer, a world... Read more
View audiobookWalking the Nile
By: Levison Wood
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda, where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water, Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile. He followed the river for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations—Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of... Read more
View audiobookThe Missing Wife: The uplifting and compelling smash-hit bestseller!
By: Sheila O'Flanagan
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore will love Sunday Times bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan's THE MISSING WIFE.
Have you ever wanted to disappear?
When Imogen Naughton vanishes, everyone who knows her is shocked. She has a perfect marriage. Her handsome husband treats her like a princess. She's always said how lucky she... Read more
Americana
By: Hampton Sides
Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
Length: 17 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than fifteen years, bestselling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture.
In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with... Read more
The Last Dive
By: Bernie Chowdhury
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 16 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under 230 feet of water, only a half-day's mission from... Read more
View audiobookThe Wonder Trail
By: Steve Hely
Narrated by: Steve Hely
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their backpack and hiking boots.
The Wonder Trail is... Read more
Ireland - Culture Smart!
By: John Scotney
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The island of Ireland is famous for its timeless beauty, the variety of its landscape, its quiet towns and lively cities, the poetic and literary genius of so many of its citizens, its music and folklore, and its colorful and bloody history. Businesspeople and visitors who don’t know Ireland will find this book an invaluable introduction to the... Read more
View audiobookChile - Culture Smart!
By: Caterina Perrone
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
Length: 4 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Culture Smart! Chile provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in Chile, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide will tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will... Read more
View audiobookVoyager
By: Russell Banks
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas.Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. “Since childhood, I’ve longed for escape, for... Read more
View audiobookWalking The Himalayas
By: Levison Wood
Narrated by: Levison Wood
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range.
Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV" (The Times UK). Now, following in the footsteps of the great... Read more
Best European Cities You Must See
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Europe: the name is quite enough to describe the beauty of nature lying within the continent. Europe holds the westernmost part of the Eurasia. To the north there lies icy Arctic Ocean, at west there is beautiful Atlantic Ocean. South of the Europe is bordered by Mediterranean Sea. Water shades of Ural and Caucasus Mountains are considered the... Read more
View audiobookHistory of China
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In the present time, china is one of the most developed countries in Asia and the world as well. It has gone through a very long phase to be capable of calling itself a super power. Journey of china is thousands of years old. Before the existence of Xia dynasty, china was nothing as a united empire. Most parts of the modern china were ruled by... Read more
View audiobookFinding Fontainebleau
By: Thad Carhart
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the château itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings, its grounds the perfect place... Read more
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