Walking to Samarkand
By: Bernard Ollivier
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Walking to Samarkand is journalist Bernard Ollivier's stunning account of the second leg of his 7,200-mile walk from Istanbul, Turkey, to Xi'an, China, along the Silk Road—the longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time.
After crossing the final mountain passes of Turkish Kurdistan, Ollivier sets foot in Iran, keen on locating... Read more
HowExpert Guide to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
By: HowExpert & Nathan Ion
Narrated by: Robert Taylor
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
If you want to learn the history, discover the best places to visit, eat great food, and have fun exploring Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then check out HowExpert Guide to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Have you ever been to a city on vacation, or a business trip, or even a honeymoon and returned home, only to find that you didn’t get to see even a... Read more
View audiobookPeaceable Passage - Abridged
By: Beverly Mader Wilson
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As a diminutive, highly stylized old man waiter came with a tray of food for our table, Stuart flung his arm out to make a point. As his arm came up, he caught the underside of the tray. Both the tray and its contents flew in every direction. The haughty waiter had all he could take. Though he said nothing, we knew we had lived up to what he... Read more
View audiobookSecrets & dreams
By: Carlos Velázquez Mayoral
Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Si usas zapatos grandes, te crecen los pies. Secrets & Dreams es la historia de Alejandro Zozaya, el mexicano que construyó un imperio hotelero y salvó el turismo nacional en más de una ocasión, escrita a partir de las entrevistas que tuvo con el reconocido periodista especializadoen negocios y turismo, Carlos Velázquez Mayoral. 2.7 mil... Read more
View audiobookThe Italian Fiancé
By: Victoria Springfield
Narrated by: Victoria Fox
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
'A wonderful story told with lightness, emotional insight and humour' FIVE STARS
'The backgrounds are so well described one could actually be there' FIVE STARS
'The Author took us on an unforgettable adventure. Highly recommended' FIVE STARS
It's never too late for happily ever after...
When sisters Cassie and Lisa receive a wedding invitation,... Read more
Nice to meet you, Köln - Abridged
By: Nilz Bokelberg
Narrated by: Nilz Bokelberg
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mit Autor und Moderator Nilz Bokelberg auf Entdeckungstour in seiner Heimatstadt Köln. Warum lieben die Kölner ihren Dom so sehr? Wie feiert man Karneval richtig? Welches Kölsch sollte man trinken und wo schmeckt es am besten? Wo und mit wem flirtet es sich besonders gut? Und woher kommt eigentlich die gute Laune der Kölner? Diese und... Read more
View audiobookFeels Like Home
By: Linda Ronstadt & Lawrence Downes
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Linda Ronstadt takes readers on a journey to the place her soul calls home, the Sonoran Desert, in this candid new memoir."The arid land that starts in Arizona and stretches into Mexico's west coast is Ronstadt's foothold in the world. It's a story she has told through music, and now wants to tell through food."—The... Read more
View audiobookThe Toxic Travel Guide
By: Frankie McNamara
Narrated by: Frankie McNamara
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Ireland’s Instagram sensation Meditations for the Anxious Mind takes us on a trip around Ireland of the likes you’ve never seen before, from the trolley-filled Liffey to the glamour of Navan. Ever been curious about Limerick’s ancient mysteries or wondered what secrets Drogheda might hold? Well now... Read more
View audiobookExploring Our National Parks; Volume 2
By: Michael Finney
Narrated by: Michael Finney
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Exploring the National Parks across the United States is an opportunity that should not be taken for granted. To understand the profound notion of stewardship, in terms of responsibility and accountability, we must know the land as intimately as possible. This album seeks to further nurture the seed planted in Volume 1 of the series.Captured in... Read more
View audiobookA Road Running Southward
By: Dan Chapman
Narrated by: Eric Altheide
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, on a similar whim, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman recreated Muir's journey to see for himself how nature has fared since Muir's... Read more
View audiobookWinds of the Steppe
By: Bernard Ollivier
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Taking listeners from the snows of the Pamir Mountains to the backstreets of Kashgar—a Central Asian city that could be the setting for One Thousand and One Nights—to the Tian Shan Mountains to the endless Taklamakan and Gobi Deserts of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Bernard Ollivier continues his epic foot journey along the Great... Read more
View audiobookLicense to Travel
By: Patrick Bixby
Narrated by: Tim Fannon
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the surprising global history of how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience to define the modern world.License to Travel exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.Patrick Bixby examines the passports of artists and... Read more
View audiobookEmily in Paris: Paris, J'Adore!
By: Emily in Paris
Narrated by: Rebecca LaChance
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The official authorized companion to the much-loved Netflix show Emily in Paris.
Paris, J'Adore! is Emily Cooper's diary about her life in France so far. From leaving her boyfriend in Chicago to starting at marketing firm Savoir in Paris, it reveals all the thrill, fear and confusion Emily experiences as she embarks on her new life. She becomes... Read more
The Birth of the West
By: Paul Collins
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 21 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne’s empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins,... Read more
View audiobookOld Roads, New Friends
By: Adam G. Fleming & Dr. Jonathan Bornman
Narrated by: Adam G. Fleming
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In "Old Roads, New Friends," author Adam G. Fleming, "the friendliest guy on the Camino," shares his reflections on El Camino de Santiago, a 200-mile hike from Porto, Portugal to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. IN spite of spending a great deal of time alone, the author finds friendships with other pilgrims developing at warp speed. Fleming... Read more
View audiobookOut of Istanbul
By: Bernard Ollivier
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Upon retirement at the age of sixty-two, and grieving his deceased wife, renowned journalist Bernard Ollivier felt a sense of profound emptiness: What do I do now? While some see retirement as a chance to cash in their chips and settle into a comfy armchair, Ollivier still longed for more. Searching for inspiration, he strapped on his gear,... Read more
View audiobookThe Traces
By: Mairead Small Staid
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a... Read more
View audiobookCómo viajar barato - Abridged
By: Juanjo Ramos
Narrated by: Juanjo Ramos
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
¿Viajar por el mundo es lo que siempre has soñado? Aunque muchos piensen que viajar es un lujo, todo el mundo se merece una escapada de vez en cuando sin poner su cuenta del banco en números rojos ni endeudarse. Este audiolibro te demostrará que no es necesario tener mucho dinero para viajar.
Esta guía te propone las principales formas de viajar... Read more
Hidden Nature
By: Michael Ray Taylor
Narrated by: Michael Ray Taylor
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021
More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of... Read more
Blue Portugal and Other Essays
By: Theresa Kishkan
Narrated by: Nina Richmond
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies, medical histories, and early land surveys together with insights from music, colour theory, horticulture,... Read more
View audiobookThe Notorious Guide to Britain
By: Paul Donnelley
Narrated by: Nick Biadon
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Britain. Within its pages you will find love and romance, murder and mayhem, royalty, aristocrats and commoners, politics and politicians, sex and scandal, sporting triumphs and sporting disasters, millionaires and eccentrics, film stars and train... Read more
View audiobookHimalaya
By: John Keay
Narrated by: Nick Holbek
Length: 15 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet, and makes the case that it is one of our most essential – and endangered – wonders.More rugged and elevated... Read more
View audiobookBibliomaniac
By: Robin Ince
Narrated by: Robin Ince
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A unique, funny picture of Britain... A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.' Richard OsmanWhy play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing, he decided instead to go on a tour of over a hundred... Read more
View audiobookYou Are My Sunshine
By: Sean Dietrich
Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.A laugh-out-loud funny true story of a loving relationship, a grand adventure, and a promise kept. It was only a few years after the starry-eyed young couple got married when scary news threatened to take the wind out of their sails. But Sean Dietrich's wife, Jamie, wouldn't let it. She dared to hope for and plan for a great... Read more
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