Nepal - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Tessa Feller
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, Nepal is a land of contrasts and incongruities—not in the least in the variety of its cultural, ethnic, and religious weave. The Nepalese attitude toward life is essentially religious. Hindu and Buddhist values predominate and help to maintain social harmony despite the divisions between rich and poor,... Read more
View audiobookDer Schneeleopard (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Sylvain Tesson
Narrated by: Tom Wlaschiha
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein stilles Werk von ungeheurer Wirkung Sylvain Tesson ist Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Reisender. Gemeinsam mit dem Fotografen Vincent Munier reist er nach Tibet, um sich auf die Suche nach einem der seltensten Tiere dieser Erde zu begeben - dem Schneeleoparden. Werden sie ihn finden? Ungewiss! Auf über 5.000 Metern Höhe, fernab vom Lärm der... Read more
View audiobookTen Thousand Hours in Paradise: Volume 1
By: Andrew M. Crusoe
Narrated by: Andrew M. Crusoe
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring true story of one writer’s wild adventure into the gems and perils of the Big Island of Hawaii, a blue feather as his only talisman.Wild sea turtles, black sand beaches, UFOs, and a volcano goddess living in a lake of lava? That’s only the beginning. Upon landing, Andrew feels instantly welcome. On his first night, a new friend... Read more
View audiobookWilder wird's nicht - Auf der Suche nach Europas letzten Abenteuern (ungekürzt)
By: Andreas Winkelmann & Markus Knüfken
Narrated by: Andreas Winkelmann & Markus Knüfken
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Wo in Europa kann man noch wirklich wilde Orte entdecken, Freiheit spüren, Abenteuer erleben? Von dieser Sehnsucht getrieben begeben sich Andreas Winkelmann und Markus Knüfken auf die Suche - und werden fündig. Am Polarkreis in Schwedisch-Lappland, in den Alpen im Val Grande und sogar im Harz. Dort finden sie Gegenden, in denen gepflegte... Read more
View audiobookWater, Wood, and Wild Things
By: Hannah Kirshner
Narrated by: Hannah Kirshner
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
"With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life." --Maira Kalman
An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns--by an American writer and food... Read more
Horizontal Vertigo
By: Juan Villoro
Narrated by: Gabriel Porras
Length: 16 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.
Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city... Read more
American Covenant
By: Gary E. Machlis & Michael A. Soukup
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate and candid account of our national parks and their strengths, vulnerabilities, and essential role in American life.
Part memoir, part critique, and paean to the value of national parks, American Covenant distills the experience and insights from two long careers in conservation. Michael A. Soukup and Gary E. Machlis show how the... Read more
Vietnam - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Geoffrey Murray
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Vietnam is one of the most fascinating destinations in Southeast Asia. Having emerged from two decades of war, it is has undergone a period of rapid and far-reaching change, and its people have their eyes fixed firmly on the horizon. Culture Smart! Vietnam is for those who want to learn about the traditional values, sensibility, and modern way... Read more
View audiobookItaly - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Barry Tomalin
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, stunningly beautiful landscapes, the glory of its art and architecture, the richness and variety of its food, the elegance of its design and fashion, and the vitality and charm of its people. Italian style and culture have been exported all over the world. At home, however,... Read more
View audiobookGermany - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Barry Tomalin
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Germany—the powerhouse of Europe and pillar of the Eurozone—feels reassuringly familiar. However, despite superficial appearances, this is a country that operates very differently from the USA and Britain. German history is more than a thousand years old and the relatively new German nation-state encompasses an astonishing variety of cultural... Read more
View audiobookSwitzerland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Kendall Hunter
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Set aside your preconceptions of postcard scenery, chocolate and cheese, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is anything but bland. This small, multilingual, and fiercely independent country at the heart of Europe is full of surprises.Culture Smart! Switzerland reveals the human dimension of this enigmatic country. It... Read more
View audiobookTravel Seekness
By: Lisa Jackson & Graham Williams
Narrated by: Lisa Jackson & Graham Williams
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Would you risk deportation by illegally teaching English (with a fake American accent) just so you could scrape together the money to travel? And would you even want to roam the world for eight months on a budget so minuscule that you were forced to use paperbacks as loo roll and boil your own drinking water?Lisa and her husband Graham did both.... Read more
View audiobookA Walk from the Wild Edge
By: Jake Tyler
Narrated by: Jake Tyler
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his life from the clutches of depression.
With only a pair of walking boots and a backpack, he left his home town of Maldon and began a 3000-mile walk around the British mainland. In documenting every step of his adventure,... Read more
Uganda - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Ian Clarke
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Once notorious for the tyranny of Idi Amin, immortalized in the film The Last King of Scotland, Uganda has, for the last twenty-six years or so, struggled to overcome its negative image. It has largely been successful. Rated the best country to visit in 2012, it was one named of the best tourist destinations of 2013 by National Geographic... Read more
View audiobookThe Airbnb SEO Bible
By: Alex Wong
Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Master the world of SEO and promote your Airbnb listing like a pro!Airbnb offers a wonderful opportunity for turning your empty space into a year-round source of income. But with so much competition, how can you create an eye-catching presence and promote your vacation rental business?Written by seasoned Airbnb expert Alex Wong, this practical... Read more
View audiobookGuía mágica del Camino de Santiago
By: Francisco Contreras Gil
Narrated by: Francisco Contreras Gil & Javier Sierra
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Audiolibro de la nueva edición en la que se incorpora dos tramos nuevos del Camino: Desde Saint Jean Pied de Port-Roncesvalles y Somport-Jaca hasta Compostela y Finisterre. Emprende tu viaje —desde Saint Jean Pied de Port-Roncesvalles y Somport-Jaca, por las cumbres y montañas aragonesas y navarras, hasta donde los caminos se hacen uno, los... Read more
View audiobookDeutschlands schrägste Orte
By: Pia Volk
Narrated by: Katja Korber
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Alles vermessen, entdeckt, bekannt – gibt es in Deutschland überhaupt noch Plätze zum Staunen und Wundern? Die Geographin und Journalistin Pia Volk hat sich zwischen Wattenmeer und Allgäu, zwischen dem Frankfurter Mainufer und dem Sorbenland umgesehen und ist dabei auf lauter seltsame und seltsamste Orte gestoßen: eine Eiche mit eigener Adresse,... Read more
View audiobookChina - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Kathy Flower & Indre Balcikonyte-Huang
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
For thousands of years, the Chinese believed that they had created a perfect social system based on Confucian values and tempered by the Mandate of Heaven. Dynasties came and went, but the essence of being Chinese remained essentially unchanged until the twentieth century. Since then, change has taken place in Chinese society at an unprecedented... Read more
View audiobookThrough Dust and Darkness
By: Jeremy Kroeker
Narrated by: Jeremy Kroeker
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. When his seemingly unflinching faith in a Christian world view begins to shift, he hops on his bike to seek answers. After shipping his ride to Europe, Kroeker discovers that the machine now wobbles worse than his own opinions about spirituality. Still, he carries on, through Germany, Austria,... Read more
View audiobookLetters That Moved My Father
By: Romayne Kazmer
Narrated by: Carolyn Striho
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Romayne Kazmer is a world traveler. She attributes her love of travel and curiosity of the world to her year abroad in 1959/60 studying at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and summer school at the University of Oslo in Norway. She traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East at that time. After returning home to her small... Read more
View audiobookLearn German With Stories: Lockdown in Liechtenstein
By: André Klein
Narrated by: André Klein & Eti Shani
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Following the events of Schlamassel in Stuttgart, Dino travels to Liechtenstein to join a coveted workshop, when a global pandemic shutters all entries and exits to the Alpine monarchy.Stranded in an old castle not far from the capital, he is left to his own devices, grappling with the double whammy of isolation and monotony.Under the tutelage... Read more
View audiobookDear Paris
By: Janice MacLeod
Narrated by: Janice MacLeod
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. What began as a way to fund travel became ten years of a letter subscription service delivering thousands of painted letters to subscribers who delight in fun mail!
Eat, Pray, Love... Read more
Weather Flying
By: Robert N. Buck & Robert O. Buck
Narrated by: TJ Johnson
Length: 15 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BEST RESOURCE A PILOT CAN HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO FLY IN ALL TYPES OF WEATHER How do you improve on the best guide for pilots to learn how to fly in all kinds of weather? The answer is the Fifth Edition of Weather Flying. Regarded as the bible of weather flying, this aviation classic not only continues to make complex weather concepts... Read more
View audiobookIndia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Becky Stephen
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
India’s huge population of 1.2 billion people is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each region, caste, and community has its own culture, reflecting unique histories shaped by conquest, creativity, and religion. Steeped in ancient traditions, exceptionally fatalistic, and intensely passionate about their culture, the... Read more
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