Travel audiobooks

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

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

I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more

Cómo viajar barato - Abridged

By: Juanjo Ramos

Narrated by: Juanjo Ramos

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

¿Viajar por el mundo es lo que siempre has soñado? Aunque muchos piensen que viajar es un lujo, todo el mundo se merece una escapada de vez en cuando sin poner su cuenta del banco en números rojos ni endeudarse. Este audiolibro te demostrará que no es necesario tener mucho dinero para viajar.
Esta guía te propone las principales formas de viajar... 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

Die Harzreise - Abridged

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Martina Gedeck

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Ich will viel reisen und viel sehen. Das befördert die Poetery¿" Diesen Gedanken im Kopf macht sich der junge Heinrich Heine im Herbst 1824 auf die Reise quer durch den Harz. Vier Wochen lang wandert er von Göttingen über Goslar und den Brocken bis nach Ilsenburg und wieder zurück. 1826 veröffentlicht er in seinem ersten "Reisebild" eine... 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

Peaceable Passage - Abridged

By: Beverly Mader Wilson

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a diminutive, highly stylized old man waiter came with a tray of food for our table, Stuart flung his arm out to make a point. As his arm came up, he caught the underside of the tray. Both the tray and its contents flew in every direction. The haughty waiter had all he could take. Though he said nothing, we knew we had lived up to what he... Read more

The Gap Yah Plannah - Abridged

By: Orlando

Narrated by: Orlando

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Orlando, the original Sloane-dog and intrepid gapper, will finally release his diaries to inspire other travellers to follow in his chunder-filled footsteps. From sleepless nights in Buenos Aires to charitable endeavours in Tanzanah, Orlando will give the low-down on the ultimate gap experience… Just back from his travels,... Read more

Safari ohne Geld - Abridged

By: Richard Wunderer

Narrated by: Richard Wunderer

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Leise seufzend durchblätterte der Polizist in Casablanca meine Papiere. "Leute wie Sie machen uns Sorgen", sagte er. "Ihr Pass ist ja ein ganzes Bilderbuch von Stempeln. Was wäre, würde jeder so reisen wie Sie?" Ohne zu überlegen antwortete ich: "Es gäbe keinen Krieg mehr!" Daraufhin reichte er mir fest die Hand, lächelte und ließ mich fahren. Read more

African Queen - Ein Abenteuer (Gekürzte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Helge Timmerberg

Narrated by: Helge Timmerberg

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Afrika oder die Liebe. Was ist gefährlicher? Helge Timmerberg, Abenteurer und Globetrotter, hat den letzten ihm noch unbekannten Kontinent bereist, sieben Monate lang, von Nord nach Süd, von Ost nach West. Afrika lag vor ihm für eine Großwildjagd nach Geschichten. In den Großstädten inspizierte er die Hölle auf Erden, in der Serengeti das... Read more

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

Ein deutsches Klassenzimmer - Abridged

By: Jan Kammann

Narrated by: Jan Kammann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Jan Kammann unterrichtet Englisch und Geographie in einer internationalen Vorbereitungsklasse in Hamburg. Im Klassenraum kommen Schüler aus über zwanzig Nationen zusammen - aus Lebenswelten, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Eines Tages ist ihm klar: Er will mehr über ihre Herkunft wissen und kennenlernen, was für sie bis vor Kurzem... Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (02) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Die Hügel sind Freienwaldes Schönheit und Schatz", so Fontane, der dies aber nicht auf die Natur beschränkt wissen wollte. Ein Beispiel ist der Schloßberg, der jahrhundertelang der Sitz der Uchtenhagens war. Die Anfänge "sind in der Dämmerung geblieben, und wir scheiden alles, was wir von den Uchtenhagens zu sagen haben, in eine sagenhafte und... Read more

Travels in the interior of Africa in 1795 by Mungo Park, the explorer - Abridged

By: Mungo Park

Narrated by: Paul Edwards

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Classic tales and stories are an fundamental part of children's development, as they awaken imagination and bring essential teachings. These stories inspire children through important archetypes and symbolic imagery; they will bring them into a journey in fantastic worlds, full of possibilities and wonders. This specially designed compilation... 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

Eiger Dreams - Abridged

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Jon Krakauer

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.

In Pakistan, the fearsome... 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

Blues City - Abridged

By: Ishmael Reed

Narrated by: Ishmael Reed

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . .

Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost,... Read more

Moby Dick - neu erzählt - Abridged

By: ‎Herman Melville

Narrated by: Rolf Becker

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Im kommenden Spätherbst sollte ich mit einem neuen Werk fertig sein", schrieb Herman Melville 1851 seinem Verleger. "Ein Abenteuerroman, der auf gewissen wilden Legenden aus den Pottwalfanggebieten im Süden gründet, ausgeschmückt mit den eigenen persönlichen Erfahrungen des Autors aus seiner mehr als zweijährigen Zeit als Harpunier. […] Ich... Read more

A Year in the World - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places.

A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous... Read more

Im fernen Osten - Abridged

By: Marie von Bunsen

Narrated by: Meike Graf

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im fernen Osten - Die Beschreibung einer Reise durch Japan aus dem Jahre 1911 - von Marie von Bunsen, gelesen von Meike Graf. In der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts führten die Reisen der Deutschen bereits schon in alle Welt, selten jedoch bis nach Japan. Eine der wenigen Japanreisenden damals war eine adlige Dame aus Preußen:... Read more

Nun soll endlich Glanzzeit sein - Abridged

By: Evelyn Roll

Narrated by: Anne Bennent

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bühnenstar Anne Bennent leiht Evelyn Rolls Berliner Beobachtungen die Stimme und erzählt von einer Stadt, die im Aufbau und Umbruch ist und in der nichts mehr so ist, wie es einst war. Evelyn Roll, leitende Redakteurin der "Süddeuschen Zeitung" in Berlin, berichtet über die Schwierigkeiten der frisch angekommenen Bonner, blickt hinter die... Read more