Travel audiobooks

The Call of the Weird - Abridged

By: Louis Theroux

Narrated by: Louis Theroux

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America.

For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the... Read more

The Lady in the Palazzo

By: Marlena de Blasi

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From village feasts and rustic tavernas to ancient piazzas and moonlit balconies, the smells and tastes and sounds and soul of Umbria come alive in bestselling author Marlena de Blasi's evocative memoir.

By turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, touching and humorous, Marlena de Blasi's account of moving with her husband, Fernando,... Read more

American Notes

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1842, Charles Dickens visited America. His reception was somewhat colder than that which usually greeted him – already a successful author in both Britain and the U.S. This lack of enthusiasm from the Americans was partly due to his criticism of the pirating of English books in that country and partly due to his outspoken distaste for the... Read more

Hillinger’s California

By: Charles Hillinger

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The California that Charles Hillinger writes about is not the stereotypical land of movie stars, sensational trials, or tourist snapshots. Instead, he reveals a patchwork of incredible variety and uniqueness in the out-of-the-way places and everyday people found throughout this remarkable state. As a Los Angeles Times columnist who wrote... Read more

Hemingway’s France

By: Winston Conrad

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway's literary ambitions took root in France in the 1920s among some of the most extravagantly creative artists of the twentieth century. Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Cole Porter, Sergey Diaghilev, and others were drawn to the left bank of the Seine in... Read more

Charles Hillinger’s America

By: Charles Hillinger

Narrated by: Dennis McKee

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection is the fruit of Hillinger’s nearly forty-six years of a dream job spent traveling the United States as a feature writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. The result was 6,000 human and general interest stories. He traveled, came home to write, and hit the road again.In Charles Hillinger’s America, you will learn about... Read more

Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls

By: Edward E. Leslie

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 21 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson to Alive! and Adrift, tales of survival have always captivated readers. This powerful collection chronicles the remarkable true stories of real-life maroons, castaways, and other survivors as they struggle to endure against insurmountable odds. From the 1500s to the present, in the most isolated... Read more

Digging for the Truth

By: Josh Bernstein

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Digging For the Truth: A Real-Life Adventurer Explores the World's Greatest Ancient Mysteries Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's hit series Digging for The Truth, takes readers beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations on the planet as... Read more

The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

Narrated by: Rory Stewart

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By... Read more

Green Hills of Africa

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Josh Lucas

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

When it was first... Read more

Provence A-Z

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.

Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting,... Read more

No Shortcuts to the Top

By: Ed Viesturs & David Roberts

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much... Read more

Provence A-Z - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.

Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting,... Read more

Nürnberger Sagen und Legenden

By: Marco Kirchner

Narrated by: Marco Kirchner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Rund um die alte Reichsstadt Nürnberg ranken sich zahlreiche Mythen und Sagen, die heute leider weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten sind. Der passionierte Geschichtenerzähler Marco Kirchner hat sie zusammengetragen und haucht ihnen neues Leben ein. Packend berichtet er davon, wie der goldene Ring in das Brunnengitter kam, warum des abends um... Read more

Bill Bryson Collector's Edition - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Notes from a Small Island
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. The result is a hilarious social commentary that... Read more

No Shortcuts to the Top - Abridged

By: Ed Viesturs & David Roberts

Narrated by: Ed Viesturs

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much... Read more

Setting the Table - Abridged

By: Danny Meyer

Narrated by: Danny Meyer

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake ShackSeventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and hopeful investors. He is... Read more

From Exploitation to Friendship: Creating Eco-Tourism

By: Doug Thompson, Robin Kobaly & Diana Hart

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As Robin Kobaly explains, "When we come back from wilderness, that's when we seem to bring our best inspirations to help humankind, and our own selves, too. If we don't have that wilderness to go to, that refuge and that wellspring, we will not be as good a people, a society, or a race." Read more

Babylon by Bus

By: Ray LeMoine, Jeff Neumann & Donovan Webster

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of two young American men who came to Baghdad without a plan, were recruited into an occupation that knew the feeling, and witnessed enough corruption, confusion, and brutality to fill the pages of a very good book. Read more

Passage to Juneau - Abridged

By: Jonathan Raban

Narrated by: Jonathan Raban

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Acclaimed travel writer Jonathan Raban invites us aboard his boat, a floating cottage cluttered with books, curling manuscripts, and dead ballpoint pens. Read more

A Soldier's Promise - Abridged

By: First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex

Narrated by: Lee Sellars

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An uplifting story of unlikely friendship and hope during the Iraq War.

After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, First Sergeant Daniel Hendrex was dispatched along with his unit, Dragon Company, to Husaybah, a small town bordering Syria in the Sunni-dominated Al Anbar Province in Iraq. Their mission was to plug the bottleneck at the border... Read more

Simple Courage

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS.”
–old folk prayer

In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about like playthings and... Read more

Simple Courage - Abridged

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS.”
–old folk prayer

In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about like playthings and... Read more

Flying, No Fear!

By: Adrian Akers-Douglas & George Georgiou

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by an airline pilot and a clinical psychologist, this combination of practical explanation and self-help techniques is the definitive guide to help anyone overcome their fear of flying.
Sometimes unnecessary anxiety is caused by events which airline crews may take for granted, including aspects of flights that are mystifying and even... Read more