Travel audiobooks

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

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

Fire

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Kevin Conway

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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