Travel audiobooks

Ten Points

By: Bill Strickland

Narrated by: Chuck Kourouklis

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“When Bill Strickland writes about cycling, he takes you on one of the most intense, most unforgettable rides of your life.”–Lance Armstrong

Bill Strickland believed he was cursed. No matter how secure his life outwardly seemed, the happiness he had attained with his wife and daughter hung by a thread–threatened by the monster Bill lived in... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Prairie Dog Town in western Kansas. The Elvis Is Alive Museum in Wright City, Missouri. The Velvet Museum (“Velveteria”) in Portland, Oregon. A 13-foot Styrofoam scale model of Stonehenge. The Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas . . . or is it in Darwin, Minnesota?

Roadside attractions are the staples of the American road trip. Many are... Read more

NPR Road Trips: National Park Adventures

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders, with 4.4 million visitors each year. Who keeps them safe, fed, and happy? When the wind blows at White Sands National Monument, legend says the centuries-old ghost of a Mexican maiden appears in the shifting sands. In Yosemite National Park, there’s a guy who tracks road... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Postcards from Around the Globe

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Colin Angus and Julie Wafael, who spent two years circumnavigating the globe using their hands and feet. Turn on the radio in Katmandu and hear music from the 70s. Learn how robot jockeys are solving a human rights problem in Dubai. (It has to do with camel races.) Get ready for carnival in Rio. And walk through old Beijing before it’s... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Fairs and Festivals

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Step right up as the gates swing open at fairgrounds across the USA. This delightful collection explores the unique joys of the public gatherings that take place in cities and small towns, when people of all stripes and sizes meet to gawk at cows, ponder seed art, get hypnotized, compete in husband-calling contests, and eat virtually anything on... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Family Vacations

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With generous splashes of popular culture and human interest, the NPR Road Trips series introduces you not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but to the people who inhabit them—and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining way you’ve... Read more

The Longest Road

By: Philip Caputo

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

September 1996 found Philip Caputo on Barter Island, a wind-scoured rock in the Beaufort Sea populated by two hundred Inupiat and a handful of whites. As he gazed upon an American flag above the only school for a hundred and fifty miles, he marveled that the children in that school pledged allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban... Read more

Meet Me in Atlantis

By: Mark Adams

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu sets out to uncover the truth behind the legendary lost city of Atlantis. A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger... Read more

Turn Right at Machu Picchu

By: Mark Adams

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and "discovered" Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site,... Read more

One Dry Season

By: Caroline Alexander

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

With richly evocative images and wonderfully entertaining anecdotes, Caroline Alexander transports you to the dense interior of equatorial Gabon. In One Dry Season, she chronicles her adventures as she makes her way alone through dangerously primitive territory. When she first read of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley's travels in the French... Read more

The Father of All Things

By: Tom Bissell

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In his fourth book, journalist and fiction writer Bissell (Chasing the Sea) revisits the much-trodden territory of the Vietnam War to offer a fresh perspective: that of the adult children of the war's veterans. On assignment for GQ magazine, Bissell and his ex-Marine father, John, retrace the elder Bissell's tour of duty through a now mostly... Read more

A Cat Abroad

By: Peter Gethers

Narrated by: David Laundra

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the incomporable Peter Gethers comes true-life adventure featuring the author and his Scottish Fold feline, Norton-seasoned world-traveler and renowned ice-cream critic. Whether it is the trademark flattened ears of his breed or the personality quirks individual to Norton, this cat has an uncanny knack for attracting celebrity attention.... Read more

Goodbye to a River

By: John Graves

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves... Read more

Moby-Duck

By: Donovan Hohn

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Donovan Hohn's work has been featured in Harper's and New York Times Magazine. In Moby-Duck, Hohn investigates the curious incident of thousands of rubber ducky toys lost at sea in 2005. "This dazzles from start to finish."-Booklist, starred review Read more

Travels with Epicurus

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, Daniel Klein delivers a stirring meditation on the simple pleasures to be found late in life. Traveling to the Greek island of Hydra, Klein set out to discover what could be learned about aging from the sage philosopher Epicurus. Equal parts travel book and guide to living well,... Read more

Gondola

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: Antoinette LaVecchia

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all the trademarks of Venice-- and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs-- none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. The internationally acclaimed "American with the Venetian heart," Donna Leon, tells its fascinating story (The Washington Post). First used in medieval Venice as a deftly... Read more

The Ragged Edge of the World

By: Eugene Linden

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Eugene Linden has written numerous critically acclaimed works on the environment. In The Ragged Edge of the World, Linden recounts his experiences in locales ranging from Vietnam to Antarctica, offering an intimate look at creatures and cultures struggling to adapt to globalization. Read more

Wide-Open World

By: John Marshall

Narrated by: John Marshall

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

His twenty-year marriage was floundering. His two teenage kids were lost in cyberspace most of the time. He felt disconnected from his work, his family, his life. Which is when he had an idea: Let's volunteer our way around the world. John Marshall had read about the growth of voluntourism, and frankly, it was the only kind of extended trip he... Read more

The Longest Walk

By: George Meegan

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us have dreamed of being the hero in some great "pedestrian epic," covering great distances unencumbered by the trappings of modern civilization. George Meegan had a similar dream, only his kept him going for seven years and over 19,000 miles. This is his story, a physical and spiritual odyssey. Read more

The Aran Islands

By: J.M. Synge

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

J.M. Synge, one of the greatest English language playwrites of the 20th century, immortalized the Aran Islands and its people with vivid written portraits that are among the greatest in modern literature. Synge's vibrant language and earthy themes breathtakingly capture the folklore and way of life that has since perished on these remote northen... Read more

After the Civil War

By: James I. Robertson

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning to the turbulent days of a nation divided, bestselling author and acclaimed historian James Robertson explores seventy fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond.Relentless politicians, intrepid fighters, cunning innovators—the times called for bold moves, and this resilient generation would not disappoint.... Read more

The Book of Roads

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Since graduating from college with a journalism degree, Phil Cousineau's wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly one hundred countries as a backpacker, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, photographer, and art and literary tour leader. For him, travel provides what his mentor Joseph Campbell called "the key to the realm of the muses." Author... Read more

Everest, Revised & Updated Edition

By: Broughton Coburn

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format motion picture producer MacGillivray Freeman Films and comprised an international team of... Read more

Acquired Tastes

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Acquired Tastes, originally published as Expensive Habits, is a celebration of life’s extravagances. It explores an aspect of human nature that, although dormant in hard economic times, is capable of erupting with the hint of good fortune and the drop of a credit card. It samples the luxuries of Havana cigars, Parisian hotels, bespoke London... Read more