Travel audiobooks

China - Culture Smart!

By: Kathy Flower

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The spectacular Beijing Olympics of 2008 signaled China's arrival as a superpower on the world stage. The global economic crisis that followed in 2008-9 saw it become banker to the West, poised to eclipse the United States. This new edition of Kathy Flower's bestselling Culture Smart! China has been revised and updated by the author to take on... Read more

Philippines - Culture Smart!

By: Graham Colin-Jones

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in the Philippines, ensuring that you arrive aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. The inside knowledge will enable you to steer... Read more

Tourism in Iceland is booming

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

As war, terrorism and uncertainty pervade the globe, travelers are flocking to Iceland -- regarded as one of the safest nations on the planet. Fishing used to be the country’s most profitable industry, but in recent years, tourism has claimed the top spot. Still, the buzz and the economic benefits it delivers are accompanied by challenges.... Read more

Dominican Republic - Culture Smart!

By: Ginnie Bedggood

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

For those who choose to break out of the confines of all-inclusive tourist resorts, Culture Smart! Dominican Republic offers a tantalizing insight into this warm, vital, and intriguing people. It takes you on a journey from the unspoiled coastline to the agricultural interior, to the imposing mountains and to the hamlets where time appears to... Read more

Lassoing the Sun

By: Mark Woods

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks.



On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned... Read more

The Humorless Ladies of Border Control

By: Franz Nicolay

Narrated by: Franz Nicolay

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, AKA "the world's greatest bar band." Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. He meets Polish artists nostalgic for... Read more

Ethiopia - Culture Smart!

By: Sarah Howard

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Smart! Ethiopia provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing... Read more

Norway - Culture Smart!

By: Linda March

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Smart! Norway provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing... Read more

Run the World

By: Becky Wade

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the story of her year-long exploration of diverse global running communities from England to Ethiopia—9 countries, 72 host families, and over 3,500 miles of running—investigating unique cultural approaches to the sport and revealing the secrets to the success of runners all over the... Read more

Lie With Me

By: Sabine Durrant

Narrated by: Kirk Bage

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The truth is, we all tell lies... take a deep breath and get ready for the most twisty, tense and unsettling book of the summer.

'If, like me, you have been longing for a psycho-thriller of genius since you finished Gone Girl, then the wait is finally over. There are very few books in this world that are impossible to put down. Lie With Me is... Read more

The Jaguar Smile

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice." So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp... Read more

Nepal - Culture Smart!

By: Tessa Feller

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Smart! Nepal provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes... Read more

Tanzania - Culture Smart!

By: Quintin Winks

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't pack anxiety in your suitcase! By reading Culture Smart! Tanzania before you go, will ease your travel, help you to make friends and avoid confusion. Culture Smart! Tanzania will help you to understand local manners, customs and laws. Culture Smart! Tanzania goes the extra mile to help you brush up on your cultural small talk and will make... Read more

Living the Yogic Life in a Material World

By: Karan Bajaj

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us have discovered that life is never a straight line. It actually resembles a series of zig-zags. We zig in order to strengthen our creative gifts. We zag in order to provide a roof over our head and food on the table. This conversation looks at the life adventures of a father, a husband, a writer, a corporate marketer, a world... 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

The Missing Wife: The uplifting and compelling smash-hit bestseller!

By: Sheila O'Flanagan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore will love Sunday Times bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan's THE MISSING WIFE.

Have you ever wanted to disappear?

When Imogen Naughton vanishes, everyone who knows her is shocked. She has a perfect marriage. Her handsome husband treats her like a princess. She's always said how lucky she... Read more

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

The Last Dive

By: Bernie Chowdhury

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under 230 feet of water, only a half-day's mission from... Read more

The Wonder Trail

By: Steve Hely

Narrated by: Steve Hely

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their backpack and hiking boots.
 
The Wonder Trail is... Read more

Knitlandia

By: Clara Parkes

Narrated by: Clara Parkes

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty New York Times bestselling memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. 
 
Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite listeners and devoted crafters on excursions to... Read more

Chile - Culture Smart!

By: Caterina Perrone

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Smart! Chile provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in Chile, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide will tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will... Read more

Ireland - Culture Smart!

By: John Scotney

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The island of Ireland is famous for its timeless beauty, the variety of its landscape, its quiet towns and lively cities, the poetic and literary genius of so many of its citizens, its music and folklore, and its colorful and bloody history. Businesspeople and visitors who don’t know Ireland will find this book an invaluable introduction to the... Read more

Voyager

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas.Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. “Since childhood, I’ve longed for escape, for... Read more

Walking The Himalayas

By: Levison Wood

Narrated by: Levison Wood

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range.

Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV" (The Times UK). Now, following in the footsteps of the great... Read more