Travel audiobooks

California Characters

By: Charles Hillinger

Narrated by: Dennis McKee

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For forty-six years, Charles Hillinger journeyed around the world writing human-interest stories for the Los Angeles Times. He also helped to create and produce special features for the popular NBC television show Real People.From this work comes California Characters, a collection of stories of intriguing, eccentric, or simply amazing... Read more

Attention All Shipping - Abridged

By: Charlie Connelly

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and gales.
Sitting at home listening to the... Read more

A Year in the Merde - Abridged

By: Stephen Clarke

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris- for Francophiles and Francophobes alike
A YEAR IN THE MERDE is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based loosely on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid... Read more

The Devil's Teeth

By: Susan Casey

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones. Journalist Susan... Read more

The Devil's Teeth - Abridged

By: Susan Casey

Narrated by: Susan Casey

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones.

Journalist Susan... Read more

Assassination Vacation - Abridged

By: Sarah Vowell

Narrated by: Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King & Dave...

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and... Read more

Downtown - Abridged

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Pete Hamill

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Downtown, Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. Read more

Gebrauchsanweisung für Polen (Ungekürzt)

By: Radek Knapp

Narrated by: Marietta Slomka

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ein empfehlenswertes Hörbuch für alle, die von Polen mehr wissen möchten." Deutschlandfunk Besuchen Sie Polen. Ein Land, das nicht nur den Kommunismus besiegt hat, sondern auch über das skurrilste Bärengehege der Welt verfügt. Und das immer noch sehr katholisch ist. Wo sonst hieße einer der einflußreichsten Sender des Landes Radio Maria?... Read more

Gebrauchsanweisung für das Ruhrgebiet (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Peter Erik Hillenbach

Narrated by: Stephanie Überall & Gerburg Jahnke

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Ruhrgebiet, das ist Kulturhauptstadt, U-Turm und Zollverein, Aufbruchstimmung und Zukunft, aber auch Opel und Karstadt: gestern Stahlwerk, heute Baustelle, morgen Marina. Hier leben sie alle zusammen: Menschen, die ihre Pulle Export und ihre Packung Zigaretten "anne Bude" kaufen, die Fans aus der Südtribüne, der Oppa im Schrebergarten ebenso... Read more

Feet on the Street

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more

Feet on the Street: - Abridged

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Roy Blount, Jr.

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more

Münster - Citywalk - Der akustische Stadtführer

By: Adam Riese

Narrated by: Adam Riese

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine unterhaltsam moderierte Besichtigungstour durch die Altstadt von Münster. Ein Rundgang der Sinne von und mit Adam Riese. Mehr als 100 Insider-Tipps. Sie treffen Götz Alsmann, Helge Schneider, Westbam, Titus, Henning Wehland, Jürgen Kehrer, den Original Kiepenkerl, den Türmer von St. Lamberti und viele andere. Read more

Time's Magpie - Abridged

By: Myla Goldberg

Narrated by: Myla Goldberg

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the critically acclaimed bestselling author of Bee Season comes a travelogue through the magical and historic city of Prague - a city of vast beauty and wonderfully intimate detail. In Time's Magpie, Myla Goldberg uses her eye for the wonder of tiny objects and everyday things to put us in touch with the essence of this haunting and... Read more

Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: McAvoy Layne

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Refuge on the Kona coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. These selections of Mark Twain's newspaper dispatches are both charming and informative. The light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing as he reveals the... Read more

A Year in Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue... Read more

Bringing Tuscany Home - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

I always imagine each of the signoras who lived in this house—where she shelled peas, rocked the grandchild, placed a vase of the pink roses. Now I would like to take one of these women back to my house in California to show her how Bramasole traveled to America and took root, how the doors there are open to the breeze from San Pablo bay and to... Read more

The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic - Abridged

By: Kinky Friedman

Narrated by: Kinky Friedman

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jewboy, takes us on a rollicking, rock-and-rolling tour of his favorite city: Austin.

Maybe you want to know which restaurant President Bush rates as his favorite Austin burger joint. Or maybe you want a glimpse of Willie Nelson’s home life (hint: Willie plays a lot of golf). Perhaps you want to get the best... Read more

My Kind of Place - Abridged

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book.

In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the... Read more

Walking the Bible

By: Bruce Feiler

Narrated by: Bruce Feiler

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking The Bible vividly recounts an inspiring personal odyssey—by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel—through the greatest stories ever told.Feeling a desire to reconnect to the Bible, award-winning author Bruce Feiler set out on a perilous,... Read more

Time's Magpie

By: Myla Goldberg

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed bestselling author of BEE SEASON comes a travelogue through the magical and historic city of Prague - a city of vast beauty and wonderfully intimate detail. In TIME'S MAGPIE, Myla Goldberg uses her eye for the wonder of tiny objects and everyday things to put us in touch with the essence of this haunting and... Read more

The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic

By: Kinky Friedman

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jew boy, guides readers through the sights, sounds, food, and various and sundry oddities of his favorite Texas city. Known for live music and food, Austin is also the home of Willie Nelson, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and a number of other music legends. In this slightly insane and surprisingly... Read more

The Lost Explorer - Abridged

By: Conrad Anker & David Roberts

Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn & Michael McGlone

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open the tantalizing question of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory's body on Everest and helped solve one... Read more

Lost In My Own Backyard - Abridged

By: Tim Cahill

Narrated by: Tim Cahill

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Let’s get lost together . . . ”

Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has been “puttering around in the park” for a quarter of a century, slowly covering its vast scope and exploring its remote backwoods. So... Read more

Time and Tide - Abridged

By: Frank Conroy

Narrated by: Frank Conroy

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged... Read more