Travel audiobooks

Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at all-only because some cartographer has a blank... Read more

Tiger fressen keine Yogis - Abridged

By: Helge Timmerberg

Narrated by: Mathieu Carrière

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Ein Tiger raubte ihm die Hände, die Zunge biss er sich während eines Malariaanfalls selber ab, und sein linkes Auge verlor er bei dem Streit mit einem afghanischen Widerstandskämpfer, den er um zwei Kilo Haschisch bescheißen wollte." So hätte es kommen können. Aber eines kann man Helge Timmerberg nun wirklich nicht nachsagen: er hätte nicht... Read more

Confederates in the Attic

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Arthur Addison

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more

Paris, Paris

By: David Downie

Narrated by: Max Winter

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-├ëlys├®es to the old Montmartre haunts of the... Read more

A Thousand Hills to Heaven

By: Josh Ruxin

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven.

Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of... Read more

Guevara: Side by Side Edition - English/Italian

By: Alfonso Borello

Narrated by: Alfonso Borello

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Side by Side Edition - English/ItalianThis is a side-by-side translation; it loses punch on the literary side for obvious reasons, but it will surely please the reader or student who wants to improve his/her Italian. There are times when the writer must lower his ego.Versione Ampliata per studenti d'Inglese o d'Italiano in cerca di arricchire il... Read more

Living the Best Day Ever

By: Hendri Coetzee

Narrated by: Antowan Nothling

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hendri Coetzee had been a professional kayaker for 15 years but had spent his life venturing into difficult mental and physical territory. He is still regarded as a white-water kayaker legend in his own time and led various expeditions on some of Africa’s wildest rivers. In 2010 he led an expedition of 2 Americans, Ben Stookesberry and Chris... Read more

Falling Upwards

By: Richard Holmes

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.Dramatic... Read more

Amsterdam

By: Russell Shorto

Narrated by: Russell Shorto

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World

Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for... Read more

Provence, 1970

By: Luke Barr

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in... Read more

Old Man River

By: Paul Schneider

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history—the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance,... Read more

Heidelberg Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Hören Sie die schönsten Sagen und Legenden der Stadt am Neckar. Heidelberg kann auf eine große Geschichte zurückblicken. Uve Teschner erzählt die schönsten Sagen. Eine Hörbuch-Reise in das sagenhaft Heidelbergen, mit der der Verlag die alte Tradition des Geschichtenerzählens aufgreift und sie mit dem modernen Medium Hörbuch verbindet. Read more

Ruhrgebiet Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit diesem Hörbuch, präsentiert von der WAZ und dem John Verlag gehen Sie auf eine sagenhafte Reise durch das Ruhrgebiet. Hören Sie die schönsten Sagen und Legenden aus Essen, Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen und vielen weiteren Orten des Ruhrgebietes. Der Pott hat einiges zu erzählen. Hören Sie folgende... Read more

This Other London

By: John Rogers

Narrated by: John Rogers & Russell Brand

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches. Foreword written and read... Read more

The Longest Walk

By: George Meegan

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us have dreamed of being the hero in some great "pedestrian epic," covering great distances unencumbered by the trappings of modern civilization. George Meegan had a similar dream, only his kept him going for seven years and over 19,000 miles. This is his story, a physical and spiritual odyssey. Read more

Brasilien

By: Patrick Wolfmar

Narrated by: Marion von Stengel

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Gehen Sie auf eine sagenhafte Reise durch Brasilien und erfahren Sie mehr über die geschichtliche Entwicklung des fünftgrößten Landes der Erde. Marion von Stengel erzählt die schönsten Sagen, Märchen und Mythen der Ureinwohner und vermittelt darüber hinaus zahlreiche Daten und Fakten. Das Hörbuch enthält über zwei Stunden Audio-Material sowie... Read more

The World Made New

By: Marc Aronson

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine your shock at waking up one morning to a fleet of enormous, otherworldly craft looming over you. And when bizarre aliens begin to emerge-speaking strange gibberish-your heart races even faster. Similar fears may have gripped New World inhabitants when diverse civilizations-separated by a vast ocean-first met. American natives once knew... Read more

To the Moon and Timbuktu

By: Nina Sovich

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Catching her reflection in a window spotted with Paris rain, she no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth travelling in... Read more

The Hike

By: Don Shaw

Narrated by: Terry Molloy

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Freddy, Phil and Don are three grumpy old men, travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement, at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them.

Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District, come gale, hail, snow or torrential rain. They pass the time bumping into colourful and... Read more

The Last Train to Zona Verde

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A final African adventure from the writer whose gimlet eye and effortless prose have brought the world to generations of readers
Journeying alone, in what he feels will be his last African journey, Paul Theroux encounters a world increasingly removed from both the itineraries of tourists and the hopes of post-colonial independence movements.... Read more

Mit zwei Pferden um die Welt - Abridged

By: Manfred S. Schulze

Narrated by: Manfred S. Schulze

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reiseerzählung nach Tagebuchaufzeichnungen von der ersten und einzigen Erdumrundung zu Pferde. Ein viereinhalbjähriges Abenteuer zwischen Verzweiflung und Triumph. Ständige Bedrohungen durch Korruption und Willkür, Rücksichtslosigkeit und Straßenräuber, schweißen die Pferde und den Abenteurer zusammen und lassen sie zu einer untrennbaren Einheit... Read more

Britty Britty Bang Bang

By: Hugh Dennis

Narrated by: Hugh Dennis

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugh Dennis' hilarious and insightful exploration of the changing image of Britain and Britishness will enthral those who love Outnumbered, The Now Show, Mock the Week and quintessentially British humour.

'Utterly readable and laugh-out-loud funny' - Stephen Fry

Hugh Dennis has secretly been worrying about what being "British" meant for nearly a... Read more

Walden on Wheels

By: Ken Ilgunas

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a three-year transcontinental... Read more

Love With a Chance of Drowning

By: Torre DeRoche

Narrated by: Candice Moll

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong?City girl Torre DeRoche isn’t looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He’s just about to cast the dock lines and voyage... Read more