Travel audiobooks

The Sea and the Jungle

By: H.M. Tomlinson

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic tale of a proper English gentleman who bade a resounding adieu! to the status quo and hopped aboard a freighter bound for the Amazon in the winter of 1909. Read more

Roughing It

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip to be a three-month "vacation;" not surprisingly for someone of Twain's temperament, the trip lasted seven years. His journey, like his book, has a way... Read more

The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

Narrated by: Rory Stewart

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By... Read more

The Comfort Food Diaries

By: Emily Nunn

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A former New Yorker editor chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, friends and family, and home-cooked meals in this memoir “full of warm, bracing honesty…humor and paradox…and sprinkled liberally with the type of recipes that will make book club members say, ‘I could make that!’” (Booklist,... Read more

To Shake the Sleeping Self

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

Narrated by: Jedidiah Jenkins

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things
 
On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn’t choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream... Read more

Tourism and Travel in Ancient Egypt: Travel Like an Egyptian

By: Mohammed Yehia Zakaria Z. Ahmed

Narrated by: Becky Parker

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How did the ancient Egyptians travel in this quaint old land thousands of years ago?
What sort of transportation did they use?
For how long did they go?
What destinations did they visit?
For which purposes did they travel?
Is it correct to describe the ancient Egyptian travels as “tourism” or not?
According to our current perceptions of tourism,... Read more

Cuba beyond the Beach

By: Karen Dubinsky

Narrated by: Gina Clayton

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate... Read more

Black Dragon River

By: Dominic Ziegler

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia’s great rivers that reveals the region’s essential history and culture. The world’s ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to... Read more

In Full Flight

By: John Heminway

Narrated by: John Heminway

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname “Mama Daktari”—“Mother Doctor.” Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa was a past marked by rebellion, submission,... Read more

The Monk of Mokha

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.

Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco, one of seven siblings brought up by Yemeni immigrants in... Read more

The Last Wild Men of Borneo

By: Carl Hoffman

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth,... Read more

American Heart

By: Laura Moriarty

Narrated by: Luci Christian Bell

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and thought-provoking YA debut from New York Times bestselling author Laura Moriarty.Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim-Americans are a reality.Fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams of Hannibal, Missouri, lives in this world, and though she has strong opinions on almost everything, she isn’t... Read more

Crossing the Craton

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

With his Pulitzer Prize–winning Annals of the Former World, John McPhee explores not only the richly varied surface of the United States, but the geological wonders hidden deep beneath our feet. In this final book of the series, he embarks on a fascinating journey across the basement of the continent—the land masses forming Illinois, Iowa,... Read more

Layover

By: Amy Andelson & Emily Meyer

Narrated by: Phoebe Strole, Michael Crouch & Cassandra Morris

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Julie Buxbaum's Tell Me Three Things and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone will get caught up in the drama of this road trip romance that begins with an unplanned flight layover in L.A. and turns into a wild adventure.

FLYNN: At first we were almost strangers. But ever since I moved to New York, Amos was the one person I could count... Read more

Disappointment River

By: Brian Castner

Narrated by: Brian Castner

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not... Read more

All the Agents and Saints

By: Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home—only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation’s foremost... Read more

A Tokyo Romance

By: Ian Buruma

Narrated by: Ian Buruma

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's

When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper... Read more

Time Pieces

By: John Banville

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes "a delicious memoir" (New York Times) that unfolds around the author's recollections, experiences, and imaginings of Dublin.

As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered,... Read more

Strays

By: Britt Collins

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other. Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon. One rainy night,... Read more

Fisherman's Blues

By: Anna Badkhen

Narrated by: Anna Badkhen

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE

An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.

The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere.

For... Read more

Pardon My French

By: Cathy Hapka

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Nicole dreams of spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend Nate. So when she finds herself on her way to Paris to study abroad without him, she’s less than thrilled. Paris is filled with cars that move at the speed of light, edible snails, and a language that Nicole can’t speak or read. Worst of all, Nicole feels lost... Read more

Spain or Shine

By: Michelle Jellen

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Elena is lost in the shuffle between her three overachieving siblings. But now that she’s on her own for a whole semester, she intends to keep the spotlight on herself—and Spain is just the place to do it. Once she starts living it up in tapas bars, lying out on the beach (even though it’s November), and having a nice, long siesta smack-dab in... Read more

This Land Is Our Land

By: Ken Ilgunas

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile,... Read more

I Was Told There'd Be Sexbots

By: J. Maarten Troost

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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