Travel audiobooks

A Month in Siena

By: Hisham Matar

Narrated by: Hisham Matar

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD

After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always... Read more

The Sun Is a Compass

By: Caroline Van Hemert

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This gripping true story follows a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure—perfect for fans of Cheryl Strayed.​ During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to... Read more

Chesapeake Requiem

By: Earl Swift

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, Science Friday, and Kirkus ""BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND... Read more

Mariam Sharma Hits the Road

By: Sheba Karim

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It’s going to be quite an adventure.The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala and religious but closeted... Read more

Travel as a Political Act

By: Rick Steves

Narrated by: Rick Steves

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.

With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's... Read more

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube

By: Blair Braverman

Narrated by: Blair Braverman

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.By turns funny and... Read more

In Other Words

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
 
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession:... Read more

The Geography of Genius

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.

In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more

The Oregon Trail

By: Rinker Buck

Narrated by: Rinker Buck

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award

“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York... Read more

The Orchid Thief

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Jennifer Jay Myers

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested... Read more

El coloso de Nueva York

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Víctor Sabi

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Un tributo a la ciudad que nunca duerme, un homenaje literario al paisaje urbano y al ambiente fascinante y febril que dibujan sus habitantes. Por el autor galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer y el National Book Award por El ferrocarril subterráneo. A través de trece episodios, Colson Whitehead traza un recorrido visual por las calles de la... Read more

¡Viva Mexico!

By: DK Eyewitness

Narrated by: Gabriel Porras

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

There's so much to love about Mexico. Indigenous traditions stretching back millennia; colourful cuisine that's loved the world over; and vibrant festivals bursting with joyful energy. Mexico is a country worth celebrating - and that's exactly what ¡Viva Mexico! is all about.

Within its pages, you'll discover the rich diversity of this vast... Read more

Solo Travel For Dummies

By: Lee Mylne

Narrated by: Kate Coventry

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A friendly resource to help you prepare for exciting domestic or international travel—on your own

Solo Travel For Dummies teaches you how to plan the solo trip of a lifetime with must-know info, insider tricks, safety essentials, and more. Whether you're a seasoned jetsetter or nervous first timer, you'll learn everything you need to know.... Read more

My Roman History

By: Alizah Holstein

Narrated by: Alizah Holstein

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“A lyrical and moving exploration of the ways in which the heart governs even the pursuit of a life of the mind, this a book for anyone who has ever loved Rome, as well as anyone who shares the experience of having found, in an unfamiliar history, their own unexpected home.” —Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch and Home/Land

In this... Read more

Peep Light

By: Lee Hendrix

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Most people only consider the Mississippi River when they cross it or when it inconveniently abandons its banks. But every year, millions of tons of cargo are transported by towboats on the river. In Peep Light, Captain Lee Hendrix provides unique insight on people who work and live on and near the Mississippi River. Hendrix, formerly a pilot... Read more

Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones

By: Priyanka Mattoo

Narrated by: Priyanka Mattoo

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman’s search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles—standalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life.

"I would follow Priyanka Mattoo to the ends of the earth, because she would know what to eat... Read more

Completely Mad

By: James R. Hansen

Narrated by: Mitch Crawford

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extraordinarily different—adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone.

The two men couldn't have been more different. John Fairfax was a playboy, gambler, gun smuggler, and... Read more

No Walk in the Park

By: Michael Engelhard

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the footsteps of Desert Solitaire, these essays by an award-winning writer and student of culture sift decades of experience backpacking and boating for a stance that questions the mainstream. More than mere tales of bravado, they offer glimpses into the heart of the places explored, with the Grand Canyon as their center of gravity. Vivid,... Read more

The New Tourist

By: Paige McClanahan

Narrated by: Paige McClanahan

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse—essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust.

Through deep and perceptive dispatches from tourist spots around the globe—from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam... Read more

Abenteuer Atlantik

By: Guido Lange

Narrated by: Guido Lange

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Das "Abenteuer Atlantik" sind zwei Reisen mit dem Rennrad und "schmalem Gepäck" entlang der Atlantikküste Europas: - von Rotterdam (NL) über Belgien, den Pays du Nord und der Normandie in die Bretagne - Brest (F) (1350 km) - von Huelva (ES) über die portugiesische Küste, Galicien, Asturien ins Baskenland weiter an der Küste nach Norden wieder... Read more

The Countryside

By: Corinne Fowler

Narrated by: Corinne Fowler

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten walks through idyllic scenery reveal the countryside’s forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism—a work of accessible history that will transform our understanding of British landscapes and heritage.

The green fields, rugged highlands, and rolling hills of England, Scotland, and Wales are commonly associated with adventure,... Read more

Ben & Me

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiring and practical lessons in a book that’s part biography, part travelogue, part personal prescription.

Ben Franklin lingers in our lives and in our imaginations. One of only two non-presidents to appear on US currency, Franklin... Read more

Impossible City

By: Simon Kuper

Narrated by: Tim Frances

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little.

When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had other
plans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the... Read more

Hello, South Korea

By: DK Eyewitness

Narrated by: Jennifer Kim

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Korea is a global phenomenon. K-pop tops the charts, kimchi spices up meals and K-drama dominates TV screens. Now, it’s time to discover more of the country and culture that’s captivated the world.

It might be a powerhouse of popular culture, but South Korea is so much more than BTS and bibimbap – and with this book, it’s yours to explore. Dive... Read more