Travel audiobooks

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

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

The Worst Journey in the World

By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 20 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes, where began the unforgettable polar journey across a... 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

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

The Sex Lives of Cannibals

By: J. Maarten Troost

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

At age twenty-six, Maarten Troost decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to a remote South Pacific island. The idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better.This book tells the hilarious story of what happens when he discovers that the island is not the paradise he... Read more

Gullible’s Travels

By: Cash Peters

Narrated by: Cash Peters

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, British journalist Cash Peters trekked around Europe and America visiting some of the tackiest attractions in the world for his hugely popular public radio series, The Bad Taste Tours. But a guy can only take so much. Now, as Peters prepares to leave his travel-reporting days behind forever, he takes us along on some of the more... 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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