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Fire - Abridged
By: Sebastian Junger
Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force;... Read more
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The City of Falling Angels
By: John Berendt
Narrated by: Holter Graham
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46%. It is Berendt and only... Read more
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The City of Falling Angels - Abridged
By: John Berendt
Narrated by: John Berendt
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46%. It is Berendt and only... Read more
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Spaziergang durch Wien
By: Reinhard Kober
Narrated by: Franziska Ball, Henning Freiberg & Ingrid Gloede
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Wenn die Wienerin Doris Trinker von ihrem Wien schwärmt, hört man förmlich, wie die österreichische Metropole zum Genießen einlädt: der Heurige, die Feste und traditionsreichen Kaffeehäuser, der Spaziergang durch den Prater und die Erkundung durch die Museen. Unvergesslich wird der Besuch in Wien durch die Begegnungen mit den Wienern, die mit... Read more
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Eine Reise durch Kuba
By: Matthias Morgenroth & Reinhard Kober
Narrated by: Ingrid Gloede & Henning Freiberg
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Kuba ist ein Land voller Klänge: Straßenmusiker ziehen durch die Straßen von Havanna, amerikanische Oldtimer werfen den stotternden Motor an und Marktleute rufen laut ihre Angebote und Preise aus! Ernesto Valera, Schlagzeuger der Gruppe Familia Valera Miranda plaudert über seine Liebe zur kubanischen Musik, Pedro Louis erzählt von der... Read more
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Safari ohne Geld - Abridged
By: Richard Wunderer
Narrated by: Richard Wunderer
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Leise seufzend durchblätterte der Polizist in Casablanca meine Papiere. "Leute wie Sie machen uns Sorgen", sagte er. "Ihr Pass ist ja ein ganzes Bilderbuch von Stempeln. Was wäre, würde jeder so reisen wie Sie?" Ohne zu überlegen antwortete ich: "Es gäbe keinen Krieg mehr!" Daraufhin reichte er mir fest die Hand, lächelte und ließ mich fahren. Read more
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Noa Noa - Abridged
By: Paul Gauguin
Narrated by: Achim Höppner
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Paul Gauguin war der erste europäische Künstler, der auf der Suche nach der Ursprünglichkeit des Lebens und der Kunst das Abendland verließ und sich einer "primitiven" Kultur zuwandte. In "Noa Noa" schildert der Maler sein Leben auf der Südseeinsel Tahiti, dem Land seiner Sehnsucht. Achim Höppner, mit Ausbildung an Kunstakademie,... Read more
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Spaziergang durch New York
By: Reinhard Kober & Ulrike Winkelmann
Narrated by: Henning Freiberg & Ingrid Gloede
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Stadt, die niemals schläft! Sofort hat man sie im Ohr: die Betriebsamkeit in der Wall Street, die Sirenen der Ambulances, den Strand von Long Island und das Rattern der Subway. Klänge, Musik, Bericht und viele Interviews mit New Yorkern schaffen ein lebendiges Stadtporträt, mit dem man vom Sofa aus die Metropole erleben kann: John erzählt... Read more
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Spaziergang durch Rom
By: Matthias Morgenroth & Ulrike Winkelmann
Narrated by: Henning Freiberg & Ingrid Gloede
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Rom ist anstrengend und chaotisch, aber niemals langweilig." Das sagt die Römerin Gulia über ihre Heimatstadt. Das geophon-Reisehörbuch über die italienische Metropole ist ein lebendiges Stadtporträt, in dem Einheimische nicht nur Geschichten erzählen und über den Alltag in der Stadt plaudern, sondern auch praktische Tipps geben. Der... Read more
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Spaziergang durch London - eine akustische Reise zwischen Tower und Notting Hill
By: Matthias Morgenroth & Solveig Möhrle
Narrated by: Henning Freiberg, Franziska Ball, Ingrid Gloede...
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Big Ben schlägt, die Tube rattert, ein Saxophon swingt in Covent Garden: das ist London im Ohr! In der Mischung aus Klängen, Musik, Berichte und Interview wird mit dem neuen geophon-Reisehörbuch die Ferne im heimischen Wohnzimmer lebendig. Neben Experten kommen vor allem Einheimische zu Wort. Sie erzählen über ihren Alltag, geben... Read more
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Spaziergang durch San Francisco
By: Matthias Morgenroth & Ulrike Winkelmann
Narrated by: Henning Freiberg & Ingrid Gloede
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
San Francisco ist aufregend und abwechslungsreich. Eine faszinierende Stadt mit einem ganz besonderen Klang: das Rattern und Klingeln der Cable Cars, die Seelöwen am Pier 39, die Stimmen der Händler in Chinatown. Matthias Morgenroth hat auf seiner Stadterkundung mit dem Mikrofon die verschiedensten Klänge San Franciscos eingefangen und vor allem... Read more
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Spaziergang durch Barcelona
By: Reinhard Kober
Narrated by: Henning Freiberg & Ingrid Gloede
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Der Klang der traditionellen Sardanas, die bunten Stadtteilfeste, das Schnattern der Gänse in der Kathedrale, das Klappern der Kastagnetten ... Das Reisehörbuch über Barcelona entführt mit Musik, Geräusch und Interview Ihre Ohren in die Ferne. Der Schauspieler Ferran erzählt vom kühlen Charme der Designerbars und von den einfachen Tapas an... Read more
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Three Weeks with My Brother
By: Nicholas Sparks & Micah Sparks
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.
As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both... Read more
Palladian Days
By: Sally Gable & Carl I. Gable
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A chronicle of an influential villa by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio that brings a sense of discovery to the Italian countryside and its larger national history. • “If a vacation in Italy this summer just isn’t going to make the cut, this book might be the next best thing.” —Chicago Tribune
In 1552, in the countryside outside Venice, the... Read more
The Lady and the Panda - Abridged
By: Vicki Croke
Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine... Read more
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Palladian Days - Abridged
By: Sally Gable & Carl I. Gable
Narrated by: Sally Gable
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
A chronicle of an influential villa by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio that brings a sense of discovery to the Italian countryside and its larger national history. • “If a vacation in Italy this summer just isn’t going to make the cut, this book might be the next best thing.” —Chicago Tribune
In 1552, in the countryside outside Venice, the... Read more
Kabloona
By: Gontran de Poncins
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening.In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He was at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others'... Read more
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An Affair with Africa
By: Alzada Carlisle Kistner
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their eighteen-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four-month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution, trapping the... Read more
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California Characters
By: Charles Hillinger
Narrated by: Dennis McKee
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
For forty-six years, Charles Hillinger journeyed around the world writing human-interest stories for the Los Angeles Times. He also helped to create and produce special features for the popular NBC television show Real People.From this work comes California Characters, a collection of stories of intriguing, eccentric, or simply amazing... Read more
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Attention All Shipping - Abridged
By: Charlie Connelly
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and gales.
Sitting at home listening to the... Read more
A Year in the Merde - Abridged
By: Stephen Clarke
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris- for Francophiles and Francophobes alike
A YEAR IN THE MERDE is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based loosely on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid... Read more
The Devil's Teeth
By: Susan Casey
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones. Journalist Susan... Read more
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The Devil's Teeth - Abridged
By: Susan Casey
Narrated by: Susan Casey
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones.
Journalist Susan... Read more
Assassination Vacation - Abridged
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King & Dave...
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and... Read more
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