Travel audiobooks

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

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

Ein Bummel um die Welt - Abridged

By: Richard Katz

Narrated by: Andreas Wilde

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Mein Buch gilt denen, die Schritt gehen und nicht galoppieren, denen, die atmen und nicht keuchen" (Richard Katz, 1929) Der ganz persönliche Blick eines Abenteurers mit Stil auf eine Welt im Umbruch. Intelligent, humorvoll und stets mit dem Menschen im Mittelpunkt. "Salz in der Luft und Möwen ums Schiff! Fahren wir los!" (Richard Katz) 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

Into Thin Air - Abridged

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Jon Krakauer

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had... Read more

Fire - Abridged

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Sebastian Junger

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force;... 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

Flying with Confidence - Abridged

By: Patricia Furness-Smith

Narrated by: Patricia Furness-Smith

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fearful flyers need fear no more! This soothing hour-long relaxation programme, read by top psychologist and flying expert Patricia Furness-Smith, provides proven techniques for controlling anxiety, claustrophobia and panic. To be used both before and during flights to help you feel confident and in control from take off to landing, it... Read more

The Ride of Our Lives - Abridged

By: Mike Leonard

Narrated by: Mike Leonard

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike,... Read more

Dschingis Khans Tochter - Abridged

By: Manfred S. Schulze

Narrated by: Manfred S. Schulze

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Es war täglicher Kampf, es gab Entbehrungen und Einsamkeit: Der Preis für seinen Ausbruch aus geregeltem Leben, aus der Sicherheit westlicher Zivilisation. Was steuerte ihn? Was entschädigte ihn immer wieder nach haarsträubenden Erlebnissen am Rande der Verzweiflung? War auch diese so intensive Begegnung in exotischer Ferne ein Geschenk... 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

حول العالم فى 200 يوم - Abridged

By: أنيس منصور

Narrated by: سامي العربي

Length: 23 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

هذا الكتاب يعد جوهرة أدبية نادرة.. إنه رحلات عبر مشارق الأرض ومغاربها، معرفية أحيانا، فلسفية دائما، مدهشة في كثير من الأحيان. قول طه حسين في مقدمة الطبعة الثالثة لهذا الكتاب: "هذا كتاب ممتع حقاً: تقرؤه، فلا تنقص متعتك، بل تزيد كلما تقدمت في قراءته". ويقول محمود تيمور في مقدمة الطبعة "التاسعة": كاتب الرحلات الناجح هو الذي تتوفر له ألمعية... 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

Groovin' - Abridged

By: Rich Israel

Narrated by: J. R. Moorland

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Do you have the courage to follow your dreams? In this delightful coming-of-age memoir, Rich Israel takes off on a journey of self-discovery during the late 1960s. Renouncing societal norms, he hitchhikes across the country, works at a circus, and rides a horse hundreds of miles through the Rocky Mountain wilderness—all the while, the draft and... Read more

Geschichten aus Thailand - Abridged

By: Günther Ruffert

Narrated by: Henk Flemming

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kein Thai wird je verstehen, warum sich diese verrückten Europäer möglichst nackt in die pralle Sonne legen, wo doch in Thailand jedes kleine Kind schon lernt, dass man sich der sengenden Tropensonne so wenig wie möglich aussetzt. Umgekehrt fällt es den Europäern schwer, die für Thais so selbstverständlichen und allgegenwärtigen Geister zu... 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

Provence A-Z - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.

Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting,... Read more

Quick Classics Collection: Travel - Abridged

By: Mark Twain, Jerome K. Jerome & Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Bing Crosby, Jeremy Nicholas & Harry Andrews

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

A Walk in the Woods - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
 
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times 
 
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more

Vom Ostpreußischen Gemüt - Abridged

By: Inge Mommert

Narrated by: Inge Mommert

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lieder und Gedichte in ostpreußischer Mundart. Inge Mommert liest eine Auswahl aus "Plachandern und Quiddern auf Deiwel komm raus" (Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg) sowie aus "Das Hausbuch des ostpreußischen Humors" (Rowohlt). Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (12) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Beim Anblick des Großen Stechlin in der Ruppiner Schweiz mag man leicht wie Fontane empfinden: geheimnisvoll, einem Stummen gleich, den es zu sprechen drängt; einer von den Vornehmen, die große Beziehungen unterhalten. Tief und klar ist dieser See. "Und Launen hat er, und man muß ihn ausstudieren wie eine Frau." Also nicht nur für Taucher sollte... 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

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

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