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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
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
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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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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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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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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Out of Africa - Abridged
By: Isak Dinesen
Narrated by: Julie Harris
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"When I was a young girl, it was very far from my thoughts to go to Africa, nor did I dream then that an African farm should be the place in which I should be perfectly happy."After the failure of her coffee farm, Karen Blixen returned to Denmark, where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. Out of Africa is a celebration of her life... Read more
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River Horse - Abridged
By: William Heat-Moon & William Least heat-moon
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this abridgement of River-Horse, the pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth -- recounts his singular voyage through American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country and its rivers, lakes,... Read more
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The Stories from The Italian Country Table - Abridged
By: Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Narrated by: Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Lynne Rossetto Kasper, author of The Splendid Table and host of PRI's award winning radio program of the same name, is a master at transporting her readers and listeners into the fascinating world of the Italian countryside. In Stories from The Italian Country Table, Lynne brings to life her adventures in rural Italy.
Stories from The Italian... Read more
Living the Wild Life
By: Jane Goodall
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
At a meeting in 1962, a young woman turned the scientific community upside down with the announcement that chimpanzees make tools in the wild. Jane Goodall’s discovery was the beginning of thirty years of patient and intimate primate observation in the wilds of Kenya; years that redefined what it is to be a human being. Read more
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The Grand Canyon - Abridged
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
If you have never ridden a mule along a 48-inch wide trail whose ledge drops off, in places, 700 feet to the Colorado River, straight down, you may have difficulty picturing the temporary insanity that leads otherwise responsible adults to sign away the remainder of their natural life expectancy just for the chance to see the Grand Canyon's... Read more
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The Journey Of A Lifetime
By: Colin Fletcher
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The late Colin Fletcher decided at the age of 67 to make a foot and raft expedition, some 1700 miles, down the full length of the fabled Colorado River--alone. Pursuing an idea that came to him in the shower, Fletcher commenced the six-month river trip from the Wyoming Rockies to Mexico's Gulf of California, having never even been in a raft... Read more
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The Oregon Trail - Abridged
By: Francis Parkman
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Francis Parkman's journal—written more than 150 years ago in 1846—provides an eye-witness account of one of the grandest adventures in American history. At age twenty-three, the Harvard-educated Bostonian traveled the Rocky Mountains, living among the Dakota Sioux. In his journal, he captured the color, spirit, and perspective of his era, as... Read more
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Charles Kuralt's America - Abridged
By: Charles Kuralt
Narrated by: Charles Kuralt
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!
All New Journeys From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of A Life On The Road
I keep thinking I will find something wonderful just around the bend.
Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our... Read more