Travel audiobooks

German in 40 Minutes

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the German language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. ... Read more

Dutch in 40 Minutes

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Dutch language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. ... 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

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

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

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

The Ride of Our Lives

By: Mike Leonard

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike,... Read more

The Ride of Our Lives - Abridged

By: Mike Leonard

Narrated by: Mike Leonard

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike,... Read more

A Year in the World

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places.

A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous... Read more

A Year in the World - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places.

A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous... Read more

Eat, Pray, Love

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion—the massive bestseller from the author of The Signature of All Things

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the... Read more

Manhunt - Abridged

By: James L. Swanson

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history -- the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry troops on a wild, twelve-day chase from the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.At the very center... Read more

Viva Espana

By: Reinhard Kober & Matthias Morgenroth

Narrated by: Ulrike Winkelmann, Henning Freiberg & Ingrid Gl...

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Barcelona - Sevilla - Mallorca: Drei kurze Reisen in ganz unterschiedliche spanische Welten zur Einstimmung oder zum sehnsüchtigen Erinnern, mit Musik und vielen O-Tönen: Stecken Sie ihre Ohren in die betriebsamen Gassen von Palma. Wir führen Sie durch die Altstadt, zum Mercat de Olivar, zum Hafen und nehmen Sie mit auf eine akustische Zugreise... Read more

The Travel Mom's Ultimate Book of Family Travel - Abridged

By: Emily Kaufman

Narrated by: Emily Kaufman

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A vacation has the special power to bring a family closer together— breaking away from familiar routines, allowing time to enjoy each others’ company, and experiencing the world together. All it takes is the right mindset and some planning. The Travel Mom shows you how.

In one invaluable guide, you’ll get a host of ideas for some of the most... Read more

Getting Stoned with Savages

By: J. Maarten Troost

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals Troost’s wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a hilarious account of life in the farthest reaches of the world.After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, Troost was in no hurry to return to the South Pacific—until he began to feel remarkably out of place in modern America—and he knew it was... Read more

Scott’s Last Expedition

By: Robert Falcon Scott

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 1910, the vessel Terra Nova left New Zealand carrying an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman determined to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Scott kept a detailed journal of his adventures until March 29, 1912, when he and the few remaining members of his team met their ends in a brutal... Read more

Tales of the Alhambra

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in 1831, Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of the Alhambra, the beautiful Moorish castle that defined the height of Moorish civilization, and of the surrounding territory of Granada remains one of the most romantic and entertaining travelogues ever written of this region in Spain.Enhanced here with exquisite Spanish guitar music,... Read more

South

By: Ernest Shackleton

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1911, veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to lead the first expedition across Antarctica, the last unknown continent. Instead, his ship, the Endurance, became locked in sea ice, and for nine months, Shackleton fought a losing battle with the elements before the drifting ship was crushed, marooning him and his crew.This gripping... Read more

Deep Survival

By: Laurence Gonzales

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic... Read more

God and Mr. Gomez

By: Jack Smith

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jack and Denny Smith decided to build a vacation dream house in Baja, California, they had no idea they were entering a phase of their lives “that would capture the fancy of readers throughout the United States.” Through a series of strange and whimsical adventures, they would find that building a house takes God and Mr. Gomez.As their... Read more

China Road

By: Rob Gifford

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

National Public Radio’s Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world’s most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford’s twenty years of observing firsthand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west,... Read more

Fast Company

By: David M. Gross

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

David Gross is working as a corporate lawyer in New York when a friend calls to invite him to move to Bologna to help turn around a legendary Italian motorcycle company, known for its dominance on the track and its inability to turn a profit. Off he heads to the fabled home of marbled meats, radical leftist politics, and bespoke shoes, diving... Read more