Travel audiobooks

Americana

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: Kris Koscheski

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than fifteen years, bestselling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture.



In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with... Read more

Walking the Nile

By: Levison Wood

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda, where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water, Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile. He followed the river for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations—Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of... Read more

Life and Death in the Andes

By: Kim MacQuarrie

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and author Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey through this unique region, bringing fresh insight and contemporary connections to such fabled characters as Charles Darwin, Pablo Escobar, Che... Read more

One Man's Wilderness

By: Sam Keith & Richard Proenneke

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed...to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin...to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world but content with one's own thoughts and company.



Thousands... Read more

Parisians

By: Graham Robb

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction.



A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular woman catches his eye; nature takes its... Read more

Our Towns

By: James Fallows & Deborah Fallows

Narrated by: James Fallows & Deborah Fallows

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

***NATIONAL BEST SELLER***

A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.

For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America... Read more

Asian Journals

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 26 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical... Read more

Il Bel Centro

By: Michelle Damiani

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When Michelle Damiani dreamed of living in Italy, she imagined her family as it was in Virginia—her husband filling every moment with work, her teenage son experimenting with sarcasm, her daughter smiling at the scent of lilacs, her baby-cheeked son methodically clicking Legos together, and herself hovering over the happiness of them all—only... Read more

Dear Bob and Sue

By: Matt Smith & Karen Smith

Narrated by: David Colacci & Susan Ericksen

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Bob and Sue is the story of our (Matt and Karen Smith's) journey to all 59 U.S. National Parks. We wrote the book as a series of emails to our friends, Bob and Sue, in which we share our humorous and quirky observations. It is at times irreverent, unpredictable and sarcastic, all in the spirit of humor. We describe a few of our experiences... Read more

To the New Owners

By: Madeleine Blais

Narrated by: Laura Copland

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais's in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. 2.2 miles down a poorly marked, one lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack—it had no electricity, no modern plumbing, the roof leaked, and mice had invaded the walls. It was perfect.



Sitting on Tisbury Great... Read more

Walking the Americas

By: Levison Wood

Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Levison Wood's famous walking expeditions have taken him from the length of the Nile River to the peaks of the Himalayas, and in Walking the Americas, Wood chronicles his latest exhilarating adventure: a 1,800-mile trek across the spine of the Americas, through eight countries, from Mexico to Colombia.



Beginning in the Yucatán, Wood's journey... Read more

The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah

By: Adam Valen Levinson

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson set out to "learn about the world 9/11 made us fear." From a base in globalized and sterilized Abu Dhabi, he sets out to lunch in Taliban territory in Afghanistan, travels under the watchful eye of Aleppo's secret police, risks shipwreck en route to Somalia, investigates... Read more

The Road to Sleeping Dragon

By: Michael Meyer

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean's orders,... Read more

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

By: Daniel L. Everett

Narrated by: Daniel Everett

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977—with his wife and three young children—intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding: The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for... Read more

Homeplace

By: John Lingan

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the DJ who first gave airtime to a brassy-voiced singer known as Patsy Cline, setting her on a course for fame that outlasted her tragically short life. What Lingan found was a town in the midst of... Read more

Super Sushi Ramen Express

By: Michael Booth

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan is arguably the preeminent food nation on earth, a Mecca for the world's greatest chefs, with more Michelin stars than any other country. The Japanese go to extraordinary lengths and expense to eat food that is marked both by its exquisite preparation and exotic content. Their creativity, dedication, and courage in the face of dishes such... Read more

NPR Road Trips Collection

By: NPR

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With frequent stops at pop culture meccas, and unforgettable encounters with humans of singular 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... Read more

See You Again in Pyongyang

By: Travis Jeppesen

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim, revealing North Koreans' "entrepreneurial spirit, and... Read more

Walking to Listen

By: Andrew Forsthoefel

Narrated by: Andrew Forsthoefel

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

At twenty-three, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a... Read more

Beyond Broadway Joe

By: Bob Lederer

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“Beyond Broadway Joe gives great insights into that famous Jets team and those individuals. A great read for any football fan and an absolute must for Jet fans.” —Rex Ryan, former New York Jets coachOn the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the New York Jets' historic achievement, a nostalgic, inside look from the men who composed the team... Read more

Antarctic Tears

By: Aaron Linsdau

Narrated by: Aaron Linsdau

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 Bestseller on Amazon.com (June 2015 in Skiing)Fans of Jon Krakauer, Cheryl Strayed, and Alfred Lansing will love this book.A single American marches across the icy wastelands of Antarctica.He eats two sticks of butter a day to survive.Aaron Linsdau planned an extraordinary feat. He wanted to become the first American to boldly ski to the... Read more

Northland

By: Porter Fox

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. Travel writer Porter Fox spent two years exploring its length by canoe, freighter, and car—and in Northland, he delivers the little-known history of the region and a riveting account of his travels. Fox follows explorer Samuel de... Read more

My Twenty-Five Years in Provence

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer beauty, the ancient... Read more

Five-Finger Discount

By: Helene Stapinski

Narrated by: Helene Stapinski

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in rough-and-tumble Jersey City “will steal your heart” (People)

With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls “a... Read more