Travel audiobooks

Local Wonders

By: Ted Kooser

Narrated by: Ted Kooser

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska, an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention, including memories of his grandmother’s cooking. Kooser also reminds us that the closing of local schools, thoughtless county weed... Read more

Eine Reise durch Mallorca

By: Matthias Morgenroth

Narrated by: Ingrid Gloede, Henning Freiberg, Ulrike Winkelm...

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Die akustische Reise führt von den mondänen Straßen Palmas per Bahn bis nach Sóller und weiter bis in die Höhlen von Artá. Aina Babiloni erzählt von Mirós Schaffensperiode auf Mallorca, die Markthändlerin Catalina gibt Empfehlungen für den Fischkauf und Blanca schwärmt von Fauna und Flora in den einsamen Wäldern der Serra de Tramuntana. Lauschen... Read more

The Cloud Forest

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

For twenty thousand miles, Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed the South American wilderness, traveling from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Picchu high in the Andes, down to the edge of the world at Tierra del Fuego and back. In the course of his journey, he followed the trails of old explorers; encountered river bandits, wild tribesmen, and the... Read more

Traveller

By: Michael Katakis

Narrated by: Michael Katakis

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"How could I have known then with no maps acquired and my bags not yet packed that my journey had already begun? ...The tools of a traveler are compass and map. They calculate distances covered and destinations sought but cannot measure the consequences of experiences on a human heart," writes Michael Katakis in his introduction.

Traveller is... Read more

The Only Road North

By: Erik Mirandette

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

dangerous trek across Africa … a life-and-death struggle … and a call to live a life with no holds barred.Deserts and jungles, rebels and missionaries, bullets and acts of bravery, heaven and hell on earth—these are all part of a young man’s remarkable, true journey through thirteen African countries with his brother and two best friends.Erik... Read more

NPR Road Trips: National Park Adventures

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders, with 4.4 million visitors each year. Who keeps them safe, fed, and happy? When the wind blows at White Sands National Monument, legend says the centuries-old ghost of a Mexican maiden appears in the shifting sands. In Yosemite National Park, there’s a guy who tracks road... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Postcards from Around the Globe

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Colin Angus and Julie Wafael, who spent two years circumnavigating the globe using their hands and feet. Turn on the radio in Katmandu and hear music from the 70s. Learn how robot jockeys are solving a human rights problem in Dubai. (It has to do with camel races.) Get ready for carnival in Rio. And walk through old Beijing before it’s... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Prairie Dog Town in western Kansas. The Elvis Is Alive Museum in Wright City, Missouri. The Velvet Museum (“Velveteria”) in Portland, Oregon. A 13-foot Styrofoam scale model of Stonehenge. The Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas . . . or is it in Darwin, Minnesota?

Roadside attractions are the staples of the American road trip. Many are... Read more

Eine Reise durch Schottland

By: Kai Schwind

Narrated by: Matthias Keller, Sabine Mazay & Kai Schwind

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Reise beginnt in Edinburgh mit dem ohrenbeteubenden Knall der "One o'clock" Kanone, die jeden Tag pünktlich abgefeuert wird. Kunst, Kultur und ein Abstecher in die geheimnissvolle Unterwelt von Schottlands Hauptstadt stehen auf dem Programm. Danach erwarten uns die Highlands mit sagenumwobenen Schlössern und atemberaubenden Landschaften. Die... Read more

Pies and Prejudice - Abridged

By: Stuart Maconie

Narrated by: Stuart Maconie

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating... Read more

Leipziger Sagen und Legenden

By: Katharina Hammann & Kristina Hammann

Narrated by: Heiner Giersberg

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Urpsrünglich bewohnten slawische Siedler, die Sorben das Gebiet mit den Flüssen Elster, Parthe und Pleiße. Die bekannteste urkundliche Erwähnung der Stadt stammt aus dem Jahre 1165 n. Chr., als Markgraf Otto der Reiche Leipzig das Stadtrecht verlieh. Dieses beinhaltete damals weitreichende Privilegien. So entwickelte sich Leipzig, das an den... Read more

The Lost City of Z

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.

After stumbling... Read more

Unplugged

By: Nancy Whitney-Reiter

Narrated by: Nancy Whitney-Reiter

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Many in our modern society are in the midst of an existential crisis. The ideals of previous generations have gradually eroded, leaving nothing to fill the vacuum. Choices for what to do with one's life are virtually limitless. So how do you find your life's direction? Read more

A Sense of the World

By: Jason Roberts

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

He was known simply as the 'Blind Traveller' - a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the Australian outback.

James Holman (1786-1857) became 'one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously... Read more

Following the Equator

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Michael Kevin

Length: 20 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Bound on a lecture trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. This vivid chronicle of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain’s eye for the unusual, his wide-ranging curiosity, and his delight in embellishing the facts. The personalities of the ship’s crew and passengers, the... Read more

Dawdling by the Danube

By: Edward Enfield

Narrated by: Edward Enfield

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Having only been to Germany once before to do National Service, Edward Enfield sets off on his latest cycling trip, carrying few preconceptions but plenty of wit. Determining the route he should take from recommendations scrawled on a napkin, he starts by following the 'Romantic Street' along the banks of the Danube from Passau to Vienna, taking... Read more

Sunrise with Seamonsters, Part Two

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Part Two: 1979-1984 includes: The Orient Express; Rudyard Kipling; Railways of the Raj; Graham Greene's Traveling Companion; and Sunrise with Seamonsters Read more

The Sea and the Jungle

By: H. M. Tomlinson

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

One rainy morning in the winter of 1909, a man with an altogether average look about him quit his job at the London Morning Leader, kissed his wife and children goodbye, and took a train to Swansea in Wales, where he talked his way aboard a freighter bound for the upper reaches of the Amazon. Three years later, Tomlinson published a book about... Read more

Venice for Lovers

By: Louis Begley & Anka Muhlstein

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Every year for the thirty they have been married, Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In Venice for Lovers, Begley and Muhlstein fashion their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband... Read more

Roads to Quoz

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: William Least Heat-Moon

Length: 21 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads -- those... Read more

In Morocco

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guidebook, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the most replete sightseer. The sensation is attainable by any one who will take the trouble to row out into the harbor of Algeciras and scramble onto a little black boat headed across the... Read more

Sparring with Charlie

By: Christopher Hunt

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Christopher Hunt set off in search of Vietnam's notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail, he hardly expected to end up on a rickety, Russian-made motorcycle navigating 5,000 kilometers of paths rarely traveled by tourists and on roads missing from maps.Hunt left the United States expecting to explore the 1,700-kilometer highway that was once the supply... Read more

Fresh Air Fiend

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 22 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux adds Fresh Air Fiend, named a New York Times Notable Book, to his highly praised travel writings. A collection of essays, this intimate and fascinating book explores five continents and many cultures, while delving deep into the mind of Theroux. From one adventure to the next, listeners will be... Read more

Beschreibung der sogenannten Sächsischen Schweiz - Abridged

By: Manfred Schober & Wilhelm Lebrecht Götzinger

Narrated by: Katrin Martin & Frank Alexander Kunz

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In seinem 1812 unter dem Titel "Schandau und seine Umgebungen - oder Beschreibung der sogenannten Sächsischen Schweiz" veröffentlichten Werk schildert der Pastor Wilhelm Leberecht Götzinger (1758-1818) neben Historischem Interessantes über Flora, Fauna, Topographie und Topologie der Gegend. Götzinger-Kenner Manfred Schober führt in das Leben... Read more