Travel audiobooks

Dresdner Sagen und Legenden

By: Kristina Hammann

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Neue Ausgrabungen weisen auf eine Besiedlung des Elbtals durch die Slawen im 7. Jahrhundert hin. Dabei geht der Name auf das slawische Wort für Sumpfwald zurück. Um 929 von der Burg Meißen unterworfen, entwickelte sich die Stadtbevölkerung so geschwind, dass es zur Germanisierung und 1206 schließlich zur ersten urkundlichen Erwähnung von Dresden... Read more

Radio Shangri-La

By: Lisa Napoli

Narrated by: Lisa Napoli

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan—said to be one of the... Read more

Lübecker Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Liubice, die Liebliche, nannten Slawen den zu Zeiten Karls des Großen (748-814) gegründeten Ort, der auf der Altstadtinsel im Norden des heutigen Lübecks lag. 1143 verlieh Graf von Schauenburg und Holstein einer Siedlung, die etwa einen halben Kilometer entfernt von dem Ort Liubice auf dem Hügel Bucu lag das Stadtrecht und gab ihr den Namen... Read more

Trier Sagen und Legenden

By: Erhard Schmied

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Das heutige Trier geht aus einer römischen Stadtgründung mit dem Namen Augusta Treverorum vor über 2000 Jahren hervor. Der Sage nach soll 1300 Jahre vor der Gründung Roms Trebeta, der Sohn des Königs Ninus, einen Ort an der Mosel mit dem Namen Treberis gegründet haben. Zur Zeit Konstantin des Großen wurden bedeutsame Bauwerke, wie die heutige... Read more

Little Princes

By: Conor Grennan

Narrated by: Conor Grennan

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”
—Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of OutcastsLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and... Read more

Chasing the Devil

By: Tim Butcher

Narrated by: Nick McArdle

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For many years Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through. With their wars officially over, Tim Butcher sets out on a journey across both countries, trekking for 350 miles through remote rainforest and malarial swamps, pursuing a trail blazed by Graham Greene in 1935. Weaving history and anthropology with personal... Read more

Two Years Before the Mast

By: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840.



While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles that affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow... Read more

Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life on the Mississippi evokes the great river that Mark Twain knew as a boy and young man and the one he revisited as a mature and successful author. Written between the publication of his two greatest novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer... Read more

Freiburger Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Michael Nowack

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Freiburg im Breisgau ist die viertgrößte Stadt Baden-Württembergs und die südlichste Großstadt Deutschlands. Der mitten in der Altstadt gelegene Schlossberg blickt auf eine 2000jährige bewegte Geschichte zurück. Vermutlich errichteten schon die Römer hier einen Wachturm. Im 10. Jahrhundert erbauten die aus Schwaben stammenden Herzöge von... Read more

Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mississippi River, known as “America’s river,” and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. The popularity of Twain’s steamboat and steamboat pilot on the ever-changing Mississippi has endured for over a century.A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life... Read more

Two Years before the Mast

By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." Influencing such authors as Conrad and Melville, it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea.Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brigPilgrimfor a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to... Read more

Venice

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land. This latest work from the incomparable Peter Ackroyd, like a magic gondola, transports its listeners to that sensual and surprising city.



His account embraces facts and romance,... Read more

Düsseldorfer Sagen und Legenden

By: Nadine Boos

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Es war der 23. Mai 1159 als Papst Hadrian IV. verfügte, dass die Bewohner eines kleinen Dorfes einmal im Jahr fünf Schillinge an St. Ursula in Köln abzuführen hätten. Düsseldorf war damals klein, wirtschaftlich aber bereits von Bedeutung. Trotzdem einige Düsseldorfer das Fährrecht besaßen und auch ein Pfarrkirchlein ihr eigen nannten, stand das... Read more

On The Slow Train

By: Michael Williams

Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.


Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU

This audiobook will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning... Read more

Underground London

By: Stephen Smith

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; In UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground... Read more

Travels in Siberia

By: Ian Frazier

Narrated by: Ian Frazier

Length: 20 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains

In Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the... Read more

Karlsruher Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Blickt man aus der Vogelperspektive auf Karlsruhe, versteht man, warum Karlsruhe auch die Fächerstadt genannt wird. Vom Zentrum, dem Schlosse aus, streben 32 Straßen und Alleen strahlenförmig in alle Himmelsrichtungen. Das erste Stadtgebiet bildeten, einem Fächer gleich, die neun nach Süden laufenden Straßen. Mit dem Bau seiner neuen Residenz... Read more

The Great Railway Bazaar

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes; the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the Trans-Siberian Express; it describes the many... Read more

Zürcher Sagen und Legenden

By: Geraldine von Aarburch & Anja Lanz

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Obwohl sich Kelten, Römer und Alemannen im heutigen Zürich niederließen, wuchs das Gebiet erst unter fränkischer Herrschaft im Mittelalter zu einer größeren Stadt heran. Vorher war Zürich ein Ort mit mehreren Zentren, bestehend aus Großmünster, Fraumünster, Peterskirche und der Pfalz. Das Privileg der Reichsunmittelbarkeit sicherte 1262 die... Read more

One Man's Wilderness

By: Sam Keith & Richard Proenneke

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed...to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin...to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world but content with one's own thoughts and company.



Thousands... Read more

Deutschlandalbum

By: Axel Hacke

Narrated by: Axel Hacke

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ein schönes Buch über uns alle." So lobte der Bayerische Rundfunk das "Deutschlandalbum". Axel Hackes Idee war, ein Album über Deutschland anzulegen, mit Fotos und kleinen Geschichten, manchmal nur einem Satz oder einem Bild, wie man das ja auch mit der Familie tut Später schaut man alles an, lacht und staunt und ist gerührt und sagt:So war... Read more

A Night to Remember

By: Walter Lord

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The "unsinkable" Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French "sidewalk cafe," private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices—but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers and crew on board.Gliding through a calm sea, disdainful of all obstacles, the Titanic brushed an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later,... Read more

The Ice Cave

By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Gripping true adventure stories - from the Mojave to the Antarctic - reveal one woman's wild affair with the EarthFor Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. The Ice Cave recounts... Read more

In an Antique Land

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of... Read more