Travel audiobooks
Unter Bäumen
By: Benno Fürmann & Philipp Hedemann
Narrated by: Benno Fürmann
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Meine Fragen an das Leben »Dies ist kein Ratgeber, sondern eine Auseinandersetzung mit mir und meiner Beziehung zur Natur. Es geht um meine Lust am Leben und meine Überforderung in anspruchsvollen Zeiten. Ich erzähle von dem, was mich umtreibt, was mich aufbaut, meinen Sehnsüchten. Ich erzähle von entscheidenden Stationen meines Lebens und den... Read more
View audiobookThis is Europe
By: Ben Judah
Narrated by: Dan Connolly
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023
'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine,... Read more
A Line in the World
By: Dorthe Nors
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and... Read more
View audiobookSummer at the Chateau
By: Annabel French
Narrated by: Laura Kirman
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
‘A Provencal sun drenched read that conjures up the scent of summer in France.’ Julie Caplin A newly single woman. A tall, dark and handsome stranger. A chateau that keeps bringing them together. What could go wrong? When Lizzie Summers is jilted at the altar, she’s left completely... Read more
View audiobookMap Addict
By: Mike Parker
Narrated by: Mike Parker
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said…' Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or... Read more
View audiobookAsia—Culture Smart!
By: Paul Norbury, Becky Stephen, Kathy Flower & Ind...
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck & Peter Noble
Length: 18 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to China, Japan, and India. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips on... Read more
View audiobookEksyvä löytää: matkustamisen ja matkallaolon tärkeydestä
By: Anneli Vainio
Narrated by: Tanja Talvensalo
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Hyväntuulinen kirja kaukokaipuusta, seikkailusta ja kotiinpaluusta.Moni meistä tunnistaa itsessään seikkailijan, jota uteliaisuus, uudet kokemukset ja kiehtovat maisemat vetävät maailmalle. Rautatieasemilla katse seuraa lähteviä junia, silmät bongaavat taivaalta lentokoneita, ja merenrannalla horisontissa näkyvä laiva saa sisimmässä aikaan... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Ride of the Pony Express
By: Will Grant
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime. The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit... Read more
View audiobookEurope—Culture Smart!
By: Barry Tomalin, Belen Aguado Viguer & Marian Meaney
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck & Peter Noble
Length: 24 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to Italy, Germany, and Spain. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips... Read more
View audiobookThe Heartbeat of the Wild
By: David Quammen
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed author David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature and explores the challenge of balancing the needs of both. For more than two decades, award-winning science and nature writer David Quammen has traveled to Earth's most far-flung and fragile destinations, sending back... Read more
View audiobookThe Grey Soul of London
By: Robert Kingham
Narrated by: Robert Kingham
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
‘He who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray’s Inn Road will never find those secrets elsewhere.’ – Arthur MachenThe Grey Soul of London is an audio guided tour. Robert Kingham takes a walk across the worn and hollowed stones of the Angel and Clerkenwell districts of... Read more
View audiobookAn Olive Grove at the Edge of the World
By: Jared Gulian
Narrated by: Jared Gulian
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The hilarious and endearing true tale of two urban Americans who escaped to a tiny olive farm in rural New Zealand.For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and coming to tiny Wellington, New Zealand, was a big enough switch from the bright lights of big cities. So when his partner CJ decided they just had to buy a rundown olive grove in the... Read more
View audiobookGebrauchsanweisung für Tokio und Japan (ungekürzt)
By: Andreas Neuenkirchen
Narrated by: Denis Moschitto
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Sumo, Sony und Sashimi: So viel Japan kennt jeder. Mangas, Karaoke und andere Importe gehören längst auch bei uns dazu - und doch ist uns ihre Heimat fremd. Andreas Neuenkirchen entschlüsselt aufs Unterhaltsamste Land und Leute. Er verrät, wie Sie in Restaurants und Privathaushalten, in buddhistischen Tempeln, beim Small Talk oder in... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost Art of Being Lost
By: Roger Wheelock
Narrated by: Roger Wheelock
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"A wonderful ramble across worlds that really don't exist anymore. Filled with enormous charm and rare insight." - Michael Elcock"At once wise, thoughtful, intimate, wistful, and loving...(with) much human goodness, a good helping of miracles, and more than a few luminous moments. It is also a cry for reflection on the state of the natural... Read more
View audiobookLuis & Lea auf großer Abenteuerreise
By: Melanie Klotz & Norbert Klotz
Narrated by: Alex Bolte
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Luis & Lea gehen mit ihrem Opa Balduin und seiner Freundin Fanny auf große Abenteuerreise. Die beiden Geschwister sind zum ersten Mal ohne ihre Eltern unterwegs und entdecken vier spannende Länder. Ihr Opa war früher Seefahrer und hat überall auf der Welt Freunde, die er mit seinen Enkeln und Fanny besuchen möchte. In dieser spannenden,... Read more
View audiobookUnd sie bewegt sich doch! - Bahngeschichten (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Horst Evers, Dietmar Wischmeyer & Cordula Strat...
Narrated by: Horst Evers, Dietmar Wischmeyer, Johann König, ...
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Sie wird von der Politik kaputtgespart und gleichzeitig als Klimaretter gepriesen, und vielleicht teilen wir ja alle dieses sonderbare Verhältnis zwischen Geringschätzung und Zuneigung, wenn es um dieses gute alte Verkehrsmittel geht: die Bahn. Wer hätte nicht schon geflucht, wenn sie mal wieder Nena-Style fährt (irgendwo, irgendwie, irgendwann)... Read more
View audiobookTravel Tips
By: Kyle Rasmussen
Narrated by: Kyle Rasmussen
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Travel Tips by Kyle Rasmussen is a deep look at some of the typical things that every traveler experiences and tips for how to make each aspect of the trip your best trip ever. This true compilation from the mind of an experienced and avid traveler provides insight into travel in the modern world. Mr. Rasmussen teaches readers to use a myriad of... Read more
View audiobookI Should Have Left the Whiskey
By: Graham Field
Narrated by: Graham Field
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
I Should Have Left the Whiskey is the first book in the Rambling On trilogy – compelling tales from a time when motorcycles were left in the shed and global exploration slowed to the pace of cycling.These diaries divulge two very different journeys in Asia: because progressing into enlightened India required some back-pedalling through darkest... Read more
View audiobookDiary of a Tuscan Bookshop
By: Alba Donati
Narrated by: Jane McDowell
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
National Bestseller
Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recounting her experience opening a bookshop in a village in Tuscany.
Alba Donati was used to her hectic life working as a book publicist in Italy—a life that made her happy and allowed her to meet prominent international authors—but... Read more
Apron Strings
By: Jan Wong
Narrated by: Anne Glatt
Length: 15 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn’t keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. On their journey,... Read more
View audiobookMighty Bad Land
By: Bruce Luyendyk
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
What does it take to prevail in Antarctica?
Four geologists and two mountain guides face the brutal beauty of West Antarctica eight hundred miles from the United States main base. Their search reaches far into the treacherous mountains of Marie Byrd Land. Over six weeks of living in tents and traveling by snowmobile, the team endures endless cold... Read more
Brave Men
By: Ernie Pyle
Narrated by: Michael Brainard & David Chrisinger
Length: 19 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic, human-scale account of the soldiers who fought in World War II, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ernie Pyle—America’s most famous and most loved war correspondent—featuring a new introduction by David Chrisinger, the author of the new Ernie Pyle biography, The Soldier's Truth
A Penguin Classic
When America entered World War II, Ernie Pyle... Read more
SUBIENDO ESPAÑA
By: Fernando Camacho
Narrated by: Irene Fernández
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Este libro va más allá de las montañas. Más allá de la complejidad de plantearse un reto y de llevarlo hasta el final. Más allá de personas habituadas a la naturaleza y de las que que sueñan con dar ese salto. Donde quiere hurgar el libro es en la necesaria obligación que tenemos de PASAR A LA ACCIÓN.Subiendo España son 52 maneras de buscar... Read more
View audiobookThe Soldier's Truth
By: David Chrisinger
Narrated by: David Chrisinger
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a best book of 2023 by Booklist
A beautiful reckoning with the life and work of the legendary journalist Ernie Pyle, who gave World War II a human face for millions of Americans even as he wrestled with his own demons
At the height of his fame and influence during World War II, Ernie Pyle’s nationally syndicated dispatches from combat zones... Read more