Travel audiobooks

The Savvy Traveller Survival Guide - Abridged

By: Peter John

Narrated by: Gill Mills

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Travel is one of our favourite activities. From the hustle of bustle of the mega-cities to sleepy mountain towns to the tranquillity and isolation of tropical islands, we love to get out there and explore the world.But globe-trotting also comes with its pitfalls. Wherever there are travellers, there are swindlers looking to relieve individuals... Read more

Von neuen Welten und Abenteuern - Abridged

By: Michael Schottenberg

Narrated by: Michael Schottenberg

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nächster Halt: Burma "Götter und Dämonen, Pagoden, Tempel, undurchdringlicher Urwald, riesige Flüsse, sagenhafte Königsstädte. Allein der Klang des Namens ›Burma‹ weckte in mir immer schon Sehnsuchtsbilder." Nach seiner Vietnam-Reise im Vorjahr nimmt Michael Schottenberg, ehemaliger Theatermacher und nun Reiseschriftsteller, seine Leser mit zu... Read more

Who's Gonna Drive You Home? - Abridged

By: Charles Brickfield

Narrated by: Charles Brickfield

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Adapted from the 2015 book Bad Uber, an unintentional antiwork novel. A true account of leaving a worthy career to join the gig economy.As the Uber phenomenon takes over London with its minicab booking app, destroying the trade of the world-famous black cab, trampling history under wheel and smashing prices, Charles Brickfield brings us the life... Read more

The Camino - Abridged

By: Shirley MacLaine

Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It has been nearly five decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. Now Shirley is back -- with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet.

The Camino is the story of a riveting odyssey that began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters... Read more

Last Breath - Abridged

By: Peter Stark

Narrated by: Peter Stark

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Sudden, extreme deaths have always fascinated us-- and now more than ever as athletes and travelers rise to the challenges of high-risk sports and journeys on the edge. In this spellbinding book, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer Peter Stark reenacts the dramas of what happens inside our bodies, our minds, and our souls when we push... Read more

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.

Stories from The Italian... Read more

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

Tras los pasos de Livingstone - Abridged

By: Xavier Moret

Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Xavier Moret recorre en este libro el África oriental, recordando a su paso a los exploradores que lo hicieron antes que él, cuando el centro de África era, en los mapas occidentales, un gran espacio en blanco. Su ruta parte de Zanzíbar, de donde salieron la mayoría de expediciones al interior del continente, sigue por Tanzania, el lugar donde... 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

Panola Explores the World at Christmas - Abridged

By: Denise C Moore Contreras

Narrated by: Denise C Moore Contreras

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

IntroductionIn ‘Panola Explores the World at Christmas,’ we meet Panola, a bright and imaginative 12-year-old with a love for science, maps, and exploration. Rooted in her African American and Dominican heritage, Panola’s story is one of curiosity and dreams. As her family celebrates their traditional Noche Buena, Panola dreams of embarking on... Read more

The Ordnance Survey Great British Treasure Hunt - Abridged

By: Ordnance Survey

Narrated by: Nigel Pilkington

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Are you ready to set out on a puzzle adventure around Britain from your own front room?

Can you solve the fiendish clues and make your way from map to map on the trail of a mysterious treasure?

Do you have what it takes to follow in the footsteps of history?

The bestselling puzzle phenomenon is back with a whole new twist on the treasure hunt.... 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

Reisen außerhalb der Zeit. Life is a Story – story.one - Abridged

By: Gregor Sieböck

Narrated by: Gregor Sieböck

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zu Fuß, im Kajak, mit Frachtschiff, Flugzeug, Bus und Eisenbahn unterwegs rund um unseren Zauberplaneten Erde. Seit 2003 reist der Weltenwanderer Gregor Sieböck in die weite Welt hinaus und folgt der Stimme seines Herzens. Beschenkt von der Magie des Augenblicks lösen sich dabei Zeit, Raum und Grenzen auf. Die große Herausforderung besteht... Read more

On Mexican Time - Abridged

By: Tony Cohan

Narrated by: Tony Cohan

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets... 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

Wieder da und doch nicht hier - Abridged

By: Uta-Caecilia Nabert

Narrated by: Tanja Lipinski

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nach der Reise zurück in den Alltag: Wenn die Heimkehr die größte Herausforderung ist<br/><br/>Die meisten Reiseberichte enden dort, wo die Reise aufhört. Aber was kommt danach? Wie knüpft man nach den aufregenden Erlebnissen wieder an das Leben »davor« an? Wie macht man weiter, wenn sich das Fernweh nicht abschalten... 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

Viajar cambiará tu vida - Abridged

By: Alan Estrada

Narrated by: Alan Estrada

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

10 lecciones que aprendí al recorrer el mundo ¡EL ESPERADO AUDIOLIBRO QUE REVELA EL DETRÁS DE CÁMARAS DE LOS VIAJES DE ALAN X EL MUNDO! Alan Estrada, host del canal de YouTube con 3.3 millones de suscriptores, te cuenta lo que ha aprendido en lugares asombrosos y aterradores por igual: desde la primera vez que viajó de mochilero a Cuba y la... 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

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

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

Abraham zwischen den Welten - Abridged

By: Thorsten Schmitz

Narrated by: Helmut Berger

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Helmut Bergers Interpretation der Ansichten aus Israel wird das Porträt eines pulsierenden Landes voller Widersprüche zwischen unbändiger Lebenslust und religiösem Eifer lebendig. Thorsten Schmitz, Korrespondent der "Süddeutschen Zeitung", beobachtet einen orthodoxen Rabbiner beim Surfen, folgt den Spuren des religiösen Fanatismus in... Read more

Die Baronessa, die Eisfrau und der rote Premier - Abridged

By: Klaus Brill

Narrated by: Michael König

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Klaus Brills vergnüglicher Reisebegleiter durch das Leben "all'italiana" erwacht in Michael Königs Interpretation zum Leben. Der langjährige Korrespondent der "Süddeutschen Zeitung" in Italien Klaus Brill blickt hinter die Kulissen der italienischen Gastronomie, erhellt die Eigenheiten der politischen Kultur, erzählt von der Mafia, von... 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