Travel audiobooks
River Horse - Abridged
By: William Heat-Moon & William Least heat-moon
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this abridgement of River-Horse, the pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth -- recounts his singular voyage through American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country and its rivers, lakes,... Read more
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The Stories from The Italian Country Table - Abridged
By: Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Narrated by: Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Lynne Rossetto Kasper, author of The Splendid Table and host of PRI's award winning radio program of the same name, is a master at transporting her readers and listeners into the fascinating world of the Italian countryside. In Stories from The Italian Country Table, Lynne brings to life her adventures in rural Italy.
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Living the Wild Life
By: Jane Goodall
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
At a meeting in 1962, a young woman turned the scientific community upside down with the announcement that chimpanzees make tools in the wild. Jane Goodall’s discovery was the beginning of thirty years of patient and intimate primate observation in the wilds of Kenya; years that redefined what it is to be a human being. Read more
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The Grand Canyon - Abridged
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
If you have never ridden a mule along a 48-inch wide trail whose ledge drops off, in places, 700 feet to the Colorado River, straight down, you may have difficulty picturing the temporary insanity that leads otherwise responsible adults to sign away the remainder of their natural life expectancy just for the chance to see the Grand Canyon's... Read more
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The Journey Of A Lifetime
By: Colin Fletcher
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The late Colin Fletcher decided at the age of 67 to make a foot and raft expedition, some 1700 miles, down the full length of the fabled Colorado River--alone. Pursuing an idea that came to him in the shower, Fletcher commenced the six-month river trip from the Wyoming Rockies to Mexico's Gulf of California, having never even been in a raft... Read more
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The Oregon Trail - Abridged
By: Francis Parkman
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Francis Parkman's journal—written more than 150 years ago in 1846—provides an eye-witness account of one of the grandest adventures in American history. At age twenty-three, the Harvard-educated Bostonian traveled the Rocky Mountains, living among the Dakota Sioux. In his journal, he captured the color, spirit, and perspective of his era, as... Read more
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Charles Kuralt's America - Abridged
By: Charles Kuralt
Narrated by: Charles Kuralt
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!
All New Journeys From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of A Life On The Road
I keep thinking I will find something wonderful just around the bend.
Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our... Read more
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