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Far Appalachia
By: Noah Adams
Narrated by: Noah Adams
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
With his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn't just tell stories, he lets them unfold quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered and bestselling author of Piano Lessons takes us on a river journey through the heart of Appalachia--a journey shared by pioneers and preachers, white-water... Read more
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Peter Mayle's Provence - Abridged
By: Peter Mayle
Narrated by: Peter Mayle & Patrick Macnee
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world. Now, share their adventures, pleasures, and frustrations: the joys and occasional hazards of wining and dining in France, taking part in goat races, attending a... Read more
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Last Trout in Venice
By: Doug Lansky
Narrated by: Paul Mercer
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
With a bottomless taste for the absurd, nothing is too outrageous for Doug Lansky. In the plucky, hilarious, and irreverent spirit of Lansky's popular syndicated travel column, “Vagabond,” comes Last Trout in Venice, a book of adventurous and wacky travel essays that will have you laughing out loud. In Naples, Italy, Lansky rents a car precisely... Read more
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Roads - Abridged
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them.
Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry has felt the pull of the road. His town was... Read more
On The Road With Charles Kuralt - Abridged
By: Charles Kuralt
Narrated by: Charles Kuralt
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Charles Kuralt's classic bestseller is now on audio!
On The Road With Charles Kuralt
Featuring Charles Kuralt with an introduction by Wallace Kuralt
"To read the front pages, you might conclude that Americans are mostly out for themselves...but you can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for... Read more
In Tuscany
By: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes
Narrated by: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany’s people, food, landscapes, and art, from the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and See You in the Piazza
“A love letter to Italy written in precise and passionate language of near-poetic density.”—Newsday
In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at... Read more
Peace Through Tourism
By: Louis D'Amore
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Louis D'Amore is the founding president of the International Institute of Peace through Tourism. The Canadian government commissioned him to develop a code of ethics and guidelines for sustainable tourism that has become an international model. D'Amore says, "World leaders are now beginning to realize that if we want peace, we must prepare for... Read more
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The Last River - Abridged
By: Todd Balf
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of the ill-fated October 1998 expedition of an American whitewater kayaking team who traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." For Wick Walker and Tom McEwan, extreme whitewater pioneers,... Read more
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A Journey to Consciousness
By: Alan Lithman
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Hitchhiking from London to the extreme desert of Southern India, Alan Lithman followed his calling, merging his 1960s activism with his spiritual hunger, to join the international community of Auroville. Letting his old spiritual beliefs of "transcendence" go, Lithman embraced "transformation", which is described by Sri Aurobindo as an... Read more
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Bella Tuscany
By: Frances Mayes
Narrated by: Frances Mayes
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.
Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more
In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that... Read more
Notes From a Small Island - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed... Read more
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more
Under the Tuscan Sun - Abridged
By: Frances Mayes
Narrated by: Frances Mayes
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword
“This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the... Read more
Bella Tuscany - Abridged
By: Frances Mayes
Narrated by: Frances Mayes
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.
Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more
Eiger Dreams - Abridged
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.
In Pakistan, the fearsome... Read more
Faithful Travelers - Abridged
By: James Dodson
Narrated by: James Dodson
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In Final Rounds, James Dodson told the poignant story of the golf trip of a lifetime with his terminally ill father. Now, armed with a fly-fishing rod and reel, he embarks with his seven-year-old daughter on an equally memorable journey across America in search of clear-running streams, swift elusive fish, and the eternal truths that only nature... Read more
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On Mexican Time - Abridged
By: Tony Cohan
Narrated by: Tony Cohan
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets... Read more
A Walk in the Woods - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more
Into Thin Air - Abridged
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had... Read more
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Confederates in the Attic - Abridged
By: Tony Horwitz
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more
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Neither Here Nor There - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz--also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods--he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. As he makes his way round this incredibly... Read more
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The Camino - Abridged
By: Shirley MacLaine
Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It has been nearly five decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. Now Shirley is back -- with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet.
The Camino is the story of a riveting odyssey that began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters... Read more
Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca—Excerpts
By: Richard Burton
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 19th century, Sir Richard Francis Burton-Oxford-educated spy and adventurer-became the first Englishman to enter the Muslim city of Mecca. Disguised as a dervish, Burton braved the harsh desert climate, Bedouin bandits, and the scrutiny of Muslim travelers to reach the forbidden city. He recorded his experiences in this book, a... Read more
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