Travel audiobooks

Walden on Wheels

By: Ken Ilgunas

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a three-year transcontinental... Read more

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having

By: Edith Zimmerman, Carrie Frye, Maria Bustillos, ...

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Danny Campbell

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women’s website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger’s maps in Mexico, attending endless... Read more

Fast Food Maniac

By: Jon Hein

Narrated by: Jon Hein

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The charismatic radio personality from The Howard Stern Show celebrates what we love about American fast food, covering chains both national and regional and offering an opinionated view on restaurant history, secret menu items, and even drive-thru strategy.Jon Hein is a fast food maniac, with a themed Discovery Channel show under his belt to... Read more

Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity

By: Kristin Elizabeth Clark

Narrated by: Michelle Hendley

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The last time Jess saw her father, she was a boy. Now she’s a high school graduate, soon to be on her way to art school. But first she has some unfinished business with her dad. So she’s driving halfway across the country to his wedding. He happens to be marrying her mom’s ex-best friend. It’s not like Jess wasn’t invited; she was. She just... Read more

Lasso the Wind

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award"Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --The New York Times"Fine reportage . . . honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism." --Los Angeles... Read more

Beyond the Castle

By: Jody Jean Dreyer

Narrated by: Jody Jean Dreyer

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When the credits roll and you've left the park, when your Disney day is over, how do you take the magic with you into your everyday work and life?Jody Jean Dreyer worked for the Walt Disney Company for 30 years and in Beyond the Castle she shares one-of-a-kind stories and insights into what sets the Disney experience apart, as well as secrets to... Read more

At Home in the World

By: Tsh Oxenreider

Narrated by: Tsh Oxenreider

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family’s adventure around the world—seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way—she discovers what it truly means to be at home.The wide world is calling.Americans Tsh and Kyle met and married in Kosovo. They lived as expats for most of a decade.... Read more

The Mission Walker

By: Edie Littlefield Sundby

Narrated by: Jaimee Paul

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Audie Award Finalist for best inspirational book!IMAGE AWARD (Native Daughters of the Golden West)"The Mission Walker is a marvelous book, a moving meditation on the relationships between courage and faith, endurance and transcendence." Randall Sullivan, Creator, The Miracle Detective, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)Have you ever wanted to just... Read more

Las lagrimas del sol

By: Jose Maria Merino

Narrated by: Luis Carlos De La Lombana

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Miguel Villace Yocotl, hijo de un conquistador espanol y de una india mexicana, emprende una nueva aventura, en compania de su padrino y de la india Lucia. Un viaje con destino a Peru, interrumpido en el Yucatan, le permitira recorrer "la tierra de los pavos y los venados," internarse en las viejas ciudades abandonadas que la selva ha invadido y... Read more

Nourished

By: Lia Huber

Narrated by: Lia Huber

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A noted entrepreneur, food writer, and recipe developer serves up an evocative adventure story abouther quest to find healing, meaning, and a place at the table.
 
Hunger comes to us in many forms, writes Lia Huber—we long to be satisfied not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. Nourished invites readers on Huber’s... Read more

L'Appart

By: David Lebovitz

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes.
 
When David Lebovitz... Read more

North

By: Scott Jurek

Narrated by: Scott Jurek & Jenny Jurek

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run, a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating, and immensely inspiring 46-day run to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail.

Scott Jurek is one of the world's best known and most beloved ultrarunners. Renowned for his remarkable endurance and speed, accomplished on a vegan diet, he's... Read more

Gizelle's Bucket List

By: Fern Watt

Narrated by: Fern Watt

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic adventure of a 160-pound English Mastiff and the twentysomething girl who grew up alongside her—“as much a story about growing up as about letting go of things that cannot be changed…and a reminder of the profound healing connection that can exist between humans and the pets they love” (Kirkus Reviews).

When Lauren Fern Watt moved to New... Read more

Ruthless River

By: Holly FitzGerald

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride—the wildest—down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles across Peru and Bolivia, ending up in a channel to nowhere,... Read more

Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

Length: 19 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Tramp Abroad, the ever adventurous Mark Twain brings his wit and creativity to his travels in Europe. Twain takes fictional liberty, turning his travels into an entertaining journey as he visits many of the countries of Central Europe. Listeners are sure to be delighted and humored as they enjoy what is considered by many to be one of Mark... Read more

Discovering America

By: Various

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating historical introduction to the Americas, via their first voyagers, reads with all the excitement of a 21st century blockbuster film! From the gripping accounts of Norseman Leif “The Lucky” Ericsson’s journey to the “Vinland” with his treacherous sister, Freydis, to the exuberant letter from Columbus announcing his discovery to... Read more

Back Over There

By: Richard Rubin

Narrated by: Richard Rubin

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on Richard Rubin's wildly popular New York Times series, Back Over There is a timely journey, in turns reverent and iconoclastic but always fascinating, through a place where the past and present are never really separated.

In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and... Read more

The Algonquin Kid

By: Michael Elihu Colby

Narrated by: Michael Elihu Colby

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The true life story of Michael Elihu Colby and his childhood days at Manhattan’s Algonquin Hotel. His grandparents Mary and Ben B. Bodne had traded their southern oil fortune for the legendary but faded Algonquin and restored the hotel’s former glory. Their efforts led to a remarkable renaissance and attracted an overflow of celebrities from the... Read more

Sunrise with Seamonsters, Part Two

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Part Two: 1979-1984 includes: The Orient Express; Rudyard Kipling; Railways of the Raj; Graham Greene's Traveling Companion; and Sunrise with Seamonsters Read more

A Sense of the World

By: Jason Roberts

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

He was known simply as the 'Blind Traveller' - a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the Australian outback.

James Holman (1786-1857) became 'one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously... Read more

Bajo la misma estrella

By: John Green

Narrated by: Fabiola Stevenson

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bajo la misma estrella es la obra que ha catapultado a John Green al éxito. Una historia que explora cuán exquisita y trágica puede ser la aventura de saberse vivo y querer a alguien. Uno de los 100 mejores libros Young Adult de todos los tiempos según la revista
TIME. Emotiva, irónica y afilada. Una novela teñida de humor y de tragedia que... Read more

Ciudades de papel

By: John Green

Narrated by: Alberto Santillán

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Una joven desaparece dejando una serie de pistas que solo su mejor amigo de la infancia podrá descifrar... Escucha donde quieras este audiolibro de John Green, autor de Bajo la misma estrella. En su último año de instituto, Quentin no ha aprobado ni en popularidad ni en asuntos del corazón. Pero todo cambia cuando su vecina, la legendaria,... Read more

We Stood Upon Stars

By: Roger W. Thompson

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Get lost... and find what really matters

You are made for freedom and adventure, friendship and romance. Yet too much of your life is spent unfulfilled at work, restless at home, and bored at church. All the while, you know there is something more. You’ll find some of life’s best moments waiting for you over a campfire, on a river — even in that... Read more

Sailing Alone Around the World

By: Joshua Slocum

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Joshua Slocum was the first man ever to sail around the world single-handedly. He completed his voyage in 1895, without radio and modern technology, when native pirates roamed the seas. It makes for an exciting tale-all 46,000 miles and three years of it. Read more