Travel audiobooks

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (04) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Ein rätselvolles Eiland, eine Oase, ein Blumenteppich inmitten der Mark" war die Pfaueninsel für Fontane. Der Kammerherr und Chemiker Kunckel soll hier seinerzeit versucht haben, Gold herzustellen - Buntglas war das Ergebnis. Näheres darüber bei Fontane, auch mehr über adlige Liebschaft und Liebe nicht nur zu Landschaft und Kunst. Tracks: 1... Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (12) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Beim Anblick des Großen Stechlin in der Ruppiner Schweiz mag man leicht wie Fontane empfinden: geheimnisvoll, einem Stummen gleich, den es zu sprechen drängt; einer von den Vornehmen, die große Beziehungen unterhalten. Tief und klar ist dieser See. "Und Launen hat er, und man muß ihn ausstudieren wie eine Frau." Also nicht nur für Taucher sollte... Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (20) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wer mit dem Auto nordwärts aus Berlin rausfährt, ist schnell an Blumberg vorbei - verpasst somit auch einen Blick auf die frühgotische, im 13. Jahrhundert erbaute Kirche. Der Grund: Blumberg liegt quasi quer zur Ausfallstraße Richtung Norden. Rechterhand allerdings wird auch der eilige Autofahrer ein reizvolles Naturensemble registrieren: den... Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (14) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Karwe gehört den Knesebecks, Wustrau dagegen ist berühmt geworden als Wohnsitz des alten Zieten", ist bei Fontane zu lesen. Und auch, dass er weniger vom Sohn, dem "letzen Zieten" hielt, mehr vom Vater. Ehrung für den alten Zieten auch in der Dorfkirche: ein bedeutendes Epitaph für den General Friedrich II. An die Zieten erinnert natürlich das... Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (11) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Den Park bezeichnete Fontane als "glückliche Mischung" und das Schloß Rheinsberg als "kleines Sanssouc", in dem Friedrich der Große als Kronprinz seine musischen Neigungen und Talente auslebte. Rheinsberg und Umgebung waren es, die Fontane anregten, die Mark Brandenburg und ihre Schlösser und Seen beschreiben zu wollen. Ein Besuch lohnt sich... Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (15) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kloster Chorin, zurecht als Perle der norddeutschen Backsteingotik bezeichnet, gilt als bedeutendste und bekannteste Ruine der Zisterzienser, "Trümmer, die kaum Trümmer sind" wie Fontane meint. Dafür sprechen auch die bekannt gewordenen alljährlich stattfindenden Sommerkonzerte mit weltberühmten Orchestern und Solisten. Die Zisterzienser in... Read more

Lost on Planet China

By: J. Maarten Troost

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Troost charmed listeners with his humorous tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific in The Sex Lives of Cannibals and Getting Stoned with Savages. When the travel bug bit again, he took on the world’s most populous and intriguing nation.As Troost relates his gonzo adventure—dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai, eating yak in... Read more

Black Wave

By: John Silverwood & Jean Silverwood

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie & Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When John and Jean Silverwood, both experienced sailors, decided to give their four children a taste of life on the high seas, they hoped the trip would offer important learning experiences, not only about the natural world but about the beauty of human life stripped down to its essence, far from civilization. But the adventure that awaited them... Read more

Côte d'Azur

By: Kai Schwind

Narrated by: Iris Artajo, Matthias Keller & Kai Schwind

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Arabische Klänge und der Einfluss der Pieds Noirs in der Hafenstadt Marseille sind der Ausgangspunkt unserer Reise entlang der vielfältigen Südküste Frankreichs. Suzanne verrät uns das Rezept für eine fantastische Bouillabaisse, bevor uns Marie alles über St. Tropez erzählt und die besten Strände auf den Iles d'Hyères zeigt. In Cannes flanieren... Read more

Eine Reise auf der Donau

By: Lilian Breuch

Narrated by: Henning Freiberg, Ingrig Gloede, Annette Peters...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Donau - Lebensader Europas Sie gilt als Königin der europäischen Flüsse und vereint an ihren Ufern zehn verschiedene Nationen - vier davon haben wir für Sie besucht: Deutschland,Österreich,die Slowakei und Ungarn. In Passau besuchen wir mit Brigitte die idyllische Altstadt und Walter Landshuter erklärt, warum man hier selbst noch den Tod... Read more

Provence

By: Kai Schwind

Narrated by: Iris Artajo, Matthias Keller & Kai Schwind

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Durch die schönsten Regionen Südfrankreichs führt diese akustische Reise. Vom lebhaften Markt in Orange reisen wir nach Arles und erfahren von Suzanne alles über die provenzialische Küche. In Avignon treffen Geschichte und modernes Theater aufeinander und in Aix-en-Provence wandeln wir mit der Kunstliebhaberin Bernadette auf den Spuren von... Read more

That Summer in Sicily

By: Marlena de Blasi

Narrated by: Marlena de Blasi

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

One summer in Sicily, Marlena de Blasi entered a world of unforgettable magic when she discovered the secret Sicilian villa of Donnafugata. There, life was ruled by ritual and by an unassailable seventy-year-old matriarch and protectress, Tosca.Willowy and aloof, with an aura of a distant time, Tosca was a woman whose life story begged to be... Read more

A Handful of Honey - Abridged

By: Annie Hawes

Narrated by: Saskia Wickham

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean.

Travelling through Morocco and Algeria she eats pigeon pie with a family of cannabis... Read more

Three Men in a Boat

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: John Rainer

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Three men and a dog in a boat on one of the prettiest waterways in the world-the Thames-in summer. Idyllic, wouldn't you say? Perhaps, if George hadn't insisted on camping, and if someone had remembered the can-opener, and if . well, maybe not idyllic, but certainly hilarious, as you'll discover when you take the trip yourself with three men and... Read more

The Sea and the Jungle

By: H.M. Tomlinson

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic tale of a proper English gentleman who bade a resounding adieu! to the status quo and hopped aboard a freighter bound for the Amazon in the winter of 1909. Read more

Notes From China

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Rita Knox

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Two hundred years ago China's imperial rulers sensed a threat to a past-oriented society in the dynamism of the West and tried to frustrate foreign entry."- Foreign Devils ... "Today, one cannot escape the impression that if only it were not for world pressures Maoist China like that of the Ming and the Manchus would be happier if it could... Read more

Goodbye to a River

By: John Graves

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves... Read more

The Father of All Things

By: Tom Bissell

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In his fourth book, journalist and fiction writer Bissell (Chasing the Sea) revisits the much-trodden territory of the Vietnam War to offer a fresh perspective: that of the adult children of the war's veterans. On assignment for GQ magazine, Bissell and his ex-Marine father, John, retrace the elder Bissell's tour of duty through a now mostly... Read more

Crossing the Craton

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

With his Pulitzer Prize–winning Annals of the Former World, John McPhee explores not only the richly varied surface of the United States, but the geological wonders hidden deep beneath our feet. In this final book of the series, he embarks on a fascinating journey across the basement of the continent—the land masses forming Illinois, Iowa,... Read more

The Colossus of New York

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Colson Whitehead

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in-or spent time-in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps,... Read more

Sailing Alone Around the World

By: Joshua Slocum

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Joshua Slocum was the first man ever to sail around the world single-handedly. He completed his voyage in 1895, without radio and modern technology, when native pirates roamed the seas. It makes for an exciting tale-all 46,000 miles and three years of it. Read more

Blood River

By: Tim Butcher

Narrated by: Tim Butcher

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When "Daily Telegraph" correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H M Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in... Read more

The Geography of Bliss

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.

Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar,... Read more

Mainzer Sagen und Legenden

By: Katharina Hammann & Kristina Hammann

Narrated by: Heiner Giersberg

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Welche sagenhaften Geheimnisse birgt die Stadt Mainz am Rhein? Die Geschichte der größten Stadt des deutschen Bundeslandes Rheinland-Pfalz geht bis in die Zeit der Römer und Kelten zurück, von deren Gottheit Mogon (Mogontiacum: Land des Mogon) auch der heutige Name der Landeshauptstadt abgeleitet wurde. Hören Sie die schönsten Sagen und Legenden... Read more