Travel audiobooks

After the Civil War

By: James I. Robertson

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning to the turbulent days of a nation divided, bestselling author and acclaimed historian James Robertson explores seventy fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond.Relentless politicians, intrepid fighters, cunning innovators—the times called for bold moves, and this resilient generation would not disappoint.... Read more

The Penguin Lessons

By: Tom Michell

Narrated by: Bill Nighy

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A unique and moving real-life story of the extraordinary bond between a young teacher and a penguin, this book will delight readers who loved Marley & Me, Dewey the Library Cat, The Good Good Pig, and any book by Jon Katz.

In 1975, twenty-three-year-old Englishman Tom Michell follows his wanderlust to Argentina, where he becomes assistant... Read more

City of Saints

By: George Weigel, Carrie Gress & Stephen Weigel

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Karol Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II, was a man whose life was the expression of a richly textured and multidimensional soul. The many layers of that soul took on their first, mature form in Kraków.” – George Weigel
 
In this beautifully illustrated spiritual travelogue, New York Times bestselling author George Weigel leads readers through the... Read more

The Full Catastrophe

By: James Angelos

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social ruin, spurred panic in international markets, and tested Europe's decades-old project of forging a closer union. In The Full Catastrophe,... Read more

One Light Bag

By: Dean Roberts

Narrated by: Dean Roberts

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a short guide for packing a lighter smarter bag for travelling. It is full of useful tips and information to help you lighten your bag. It aims to get you from a large check in suitcase to a small carry on backpack for your next trip. Read more

A Heroine's Journey with Authentic Indigenous Healers

By: Marie-Rose Phan-Lê

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The legacy of authentic indigenous healing practices and traditional shamanism is disappearing. Marie-Rose Phan-Lê is doing her part to preserve this precious human resource, which has gifts to give humankind in these challenging times. She has traveled the world seeking healers who have been trained in some of the most ancient healing... Read more

Land of the Midnight Sun

By: Alexander Armstrong

Narrated by: Alexander Armstrong

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In an adventure of a lifetime, Alexander Armstrong heads north in to an ever more hostile Arctic winter to explore the farthest reaches of the globe. In an epic journey, he navigates some of the Earth’s toughest terrain, first travelling through the glittering landscape of Scandinavia, then on to the isolated islands of Iceland and Greenland, as... Read more

Atlas of Cursed Places

By: Olivier Le Carrer

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Atlas Obscura says this lushly illustrated New York Times bestselling guide to dozens of dangerous, eerie, and infamous locations is the perfect gift for "those who believe the world is still full of mysteries to investigate." Pick up the acclaimed Atlas of Cursed Places and visit the world's most nerve-wracking locations. With pithy historical... Read more

The Travel Adventures Of An Intrepid Spiritual Seeker

By: Ralph White

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ralph White came to America in the early 1970s while the Vietnam War was still raging. On his Christmas break while teaching courses in Chicago he drove Route 66 to Los Angeles. In the desert of New Mexico he had his first spiritually transcendent experience. He says, “I felt like my mind expanded in consort with the scope of the landscape:... Read more

Neither Nowt Nor Summat

By: Ian McMillan

Narrated by: Ian McMillan

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

I’m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I’m going to start here, in this village, and radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don’t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn’t. I’m going to confirm or... Read more

Deep South

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 23 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, Africa, the Pacific Islands, Russia, and elsewhere. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas he writes of the stunning... Read more

Holidays

By: William McInnes

Narrated by: William McInnes

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Written and read by bestselling Australian author and much loved actor, William McInnes, this is a story about our love affair with holidays.

It's about going away and staying at home. It's about the relaxing times you had as a kid, escapes you have with your children and the stories you hear from your friends.

It can be about a romantic sunset,... Read more

Everything Is A Road

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Noticing life out of the corner of our eye takes some attention. We are often dazzled by the spectacle of what is in front of us. However, there are precious treasures that may only be seen by a fleeting glance. From his extensive, world-circling travels Cousineau observes: “We’re going to be blinded by the glamour of the world, by what... Read more

Irland Sagen und Legenden

By: Patrick Wolfmar

Narrated by: Reinhard Kuhnert

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Die grüne Insel Irland blickt auf eine lange Geschichte zurück. Erste menschliche Spuren stammen aus der Zeit um 8000 v. Chr. Die ersten Kelten, die die irische Kultur bis zur Christianisierung prägen sollten, gelangten um 600 v. Chr. auf die Insel. Aus dem Schatz dieser jahrtausendelangen Geschichte speisen sich Irlands Sagen, Mythen und... Read more

The Book of Roads

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Since graduating from college with a journalism degree, Phil Cousineau's wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly one hundred countries as a backpacker, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, photographer, and art and literary tour leader. For him, travel provides what his mentor Joseph Campbell called "the key to the realm of the muses." Author... Read more

Four Seasons in Rome

By: Anthony Doerr

Narrated by: Anthony Doerr

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome.

Anthony Doerr has received many awards—from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the... Read more

Allein unter Deutschen

By: Tuvia Tenenbom

Narrated by: Stefan Krause

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Tuvia Tenenbom, aufgewachsen als Sohn eines Rabbiners in Jerusalem, begibt sich auf Entdeckungsreise durch Deutschland: von Nord nach Süd, von Ost nach West, in die Stadt, aufs Land, in die Kirchen und in die Kneipen. Auf seiner Suche nach der deutschen Identität schreckt er vor keiner Begegnung zurück. Er interviewt Helmut Schmidt, Giovanni di... Read more

Come, Tell Me How You Live

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Judith Boyd

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie, legendary author of... Read more

Iberia

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 37 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal

Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is... Read more

Everest, Revised & Updated Edition

By: Broughton Coburn

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format motion picture producer MacGillivray Freeman Films and comprised an international team of... Read more

This Noble Land

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Arthur Addison

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In such modern classics as Chesapeake, Centennial, Hawaii, Alaska, and Texas, James A. Michener proved time and again that his understanding of and love for his country was unparalleled. This Noble Land is Michener’s most personal statement about America, an examination of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine the nation—racial... Read more

Ciudades de papel

By: John Green

Narrated by: Alberto Santillán

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Una joven desaparece dejando una serie de pistas que solo su mejor amigo de la infancia podrá descifrar... Escucha donde quieras este audiolibro de John Green, autor de Bajo la misma estrella. En su último año de instituto, Quentin no ha aprobado ni en popularidad ni en asuntos del corazón. Pero todo cambia cuando su vecina, la legendaria,... Read more

Acquired Tastes

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Acquired Tastes, originally published as Expensive Habits, is a celebration of life’s extravagances. It explores an aspect of human nature that, although dormant in hard economic times, is capable of erupting with the hint of good fortune and the drop of a credit card. It samples the luxuries of Havana cigars, Parisian hotels, bespoke London... Read more

Bajo la misma estrella

By: John Green

Narrated by: Fabiola Stevenson

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bajo la misma estrella es la obra que ha catapultado a John Green al éxito. Una historia que explora cuán exquisita y trágica puede ser la aventura de saberse vivo y querer a alguien. Uno de los 100 mejores libros Young Adult de todos los tiempos según la revista
TIME. Emotiva, irónica y afilada. Una novela teñida de humor y de tragedia que... Read more