Travel audiobooks

Einladung zum Untergang - Abridged

By: Gaston Salvatore

Narrated by: Markus Hering

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Markus Hering interpretiert Gaston Salvatores Hommage an Venedig, die von der steinernen Schönheit der Lagunenstadt, dem koketten Spiel seiner Bewohner mit dem Untergang, den erfolglosen Bemühungen der Politiker, die Stadtkassen zu füllen, und vom Karneval erzählt, der den Venezianern nicht immer nur Heiterkeit beschert. Read more

Bella Tuscany - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more

Cork Boat - Abridged

By: John Pollack

Narrated by: John Pollack

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.

Cork Boat tells the story of Pollack’s improbable quest. Overcoming one obstacle after... Read more

100 Länder, 100 Frauen, 100 Räusche - Abridged

By: Michael Berndt & Rainer Schäfer

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Michael Berndt führt ein beschauliches Leben im ländlichen Sachsen. Er absolviert eine Metzgerlehre, nach der Arbeit trifft er sich gerne mit Freunden und Bekannten in der Kneipe, wo die Stammtischgespräche nicht selten in Unmut über die unerwünschten Fremden umschlagen, die einem ja doch nur die Arbeit wegnähmen. Michael Berndt sieht das... Read more

Notes From a Small Island - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed... Read more

Nice to meet you, Köln - Abridged

By: Nilz Bokelberg

Narrated by: Nilz Bokelberg

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit Autor und Moderator Nilz Bokelberg auf Entdeckungstour in seiner Heimatstadt Köln. Warum lieben die Kölner ihren Dom so sehr? Wie feiert man Karneval richtig? Welches Kölsch sollte man trinken und wo schmeckt es am besten? Wo und mit wem flirtet es sich besonders gut? Und woher kommt eigentlich die gute Laune der Kölner? Diese und... Read more

Mit zwei Pferden um die Welt - Abridged

By: Manfred S. Schulze

Narrated by: Manfred S. Schulze

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reiseerzählung nach Tagebuchaufzeichnungen von der ersten und einzigen Erdumrundung zu Pferde. Ein viereinhalbjähriges Abenteuer zwischen Verzweiflung und Triumph. Ständige Bedrohungen durch Korruption und Willkür, Rücksichtslosigkeit und Straßenräuber, schweißen die Pferde und den Abenteurer zusammen und lassen sie zu einer untrennbaren Einheit... Read more

Setting the Table - Abridged

By: Danny Meyer

Narrated by: Danny Meyer

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake ShackSeventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and hopeful investors. He is... Read more

The Idle Traveller - Abridged

By: Dan Kieran

Narrated by: David Holmes

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dan Kieran was deputy editor of The Idler magazine from 2000–2010 before he turned his attention to writing books and slow travel articles for The Times, the Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and the Observer. He created a reputation for himself as the only travel writer who doesn’t fly, preferring much slower means of transportation instead.... Read more

The Travel Mom's Ultimate Book of Family Travel - Abridged

By: Emily Kaufman

Narrated by: Emily Kaufman

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A vacation has the special power to bring a family closer together— breaking away from familiar routines, allowing time to enjoy each others’ company, and experiencing the world together. All it takes is the right mindset and some planning. The Travel Mom shows you how.

In one invaluable guide, you’ll get a host of ideas for some of the most... Read more

City of the Soul - Abridged

By: William Murray

Narrated by: William Murray

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

“One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone who’s ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why.

Growing up in Rome and spending much of his life in the city, William Murray is an expert guide as he takes us on an intimate walking tour of some of Rome’s most... 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

Ostpreußische Erinnerungen - Abridged

By: Inge Mommert

Narrated by: Inge Mommert

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lieder, Gedichte, Episoden aus Ostpreußen. Inge Mommert vermittelt in ihren Erinnerungen liebenswerte, zum Schmunzeln anregende Bilder des Lebens in den Orten ihrer Kindheit und Jugend. Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (06) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Am "norddeutschen Neckar", wie Fontane die Havel nannte, liegt auch Paretz. Hofrat Gilly restaurierte Schloß samt Dorf und gestaltete es zum anmutigen Sommersitz für Friedrich Wilhelm III. und Königin Luise um. Eine der jung verstorbenen Königin gewidmete Gedenktafel von Gottfried Schadow ist in der Dorfkirche zu sehen, deren Vorliebe für Paretz... 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

Confederates in the Attic - Abridged

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (10) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als ein "bäuerliches Venedig" hat Fontane Lehde bezeichnet, mit der Spree als Dorfstraße, durchzogen von Armen und Kanälen als Gassen, jedes Bauernhaus als abgeschlossenes Ganzes begrenzend. Der Fremdenverkehr setzte Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts ein. Heute zählt der Spreewald jährlich bis zu zwei Millionen Besucher und ist doch ein Raum für Tiere... Read more

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

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

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

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (23) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Für Theodor Fontane war das Oderbruch ein "Bild voll Schönheit und Fruchtbarkeit". Eine Landschaft geschaffen von Natur und Menschenhand. Friedrich II. wagte das für seine Zeit gewaltige Projekt, die Trockenlegung des 60 Kilometer langen und 17 Kilometer breiten Landstrichs. Der Schutz vor dem Wasser ist allerdings eine stetige und somit auch... 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

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 (17) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Manche Denkmäler, die man vorher kaum beachtet hatte, wurden aufgrund Fontanscher Beschreibungen vor dem Zerfall gerettet. Kloster Lehnin als älteste Gründung der Zisterzienser in der Mark gehört dazu. So wurde von 1871 bis 1878 auch die Klosterkirche nach alten Unterlagen wieder aufgebaut. Heute finden hier im Sommer Konzerte statt. Kloster... Read more