Travel audiobooks

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Downtown - Abridged

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Pete Hamill

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Downtown, Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. Read more

Gebrauchsanweisung für Polen (Ungekürzt)

By: Radek Knapp

Narrated by: Marietta Slomka

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ein empfehlenswertes Hörbuch für alle, die von Polen mehr wissen möchten." Deutschlandfunk Besuchen Sie Polen. Ein Land, das nicht nur den Kommunismus besiegt hat, sondern auch über das skurrilste Bärengehege der Welt verfügt. Und das immer noch sehr katholisch ist. Wo sonst hieße einer der einflußreichsten Sender des Landes Radio Maria?... Read more

Gebrauchsanweisung für das Ruhrgebiet (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Peter Erik Hillenbach

Narrated by: Stephanie Überall & Gerburg Jahnke

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Ruhrgebiet, das ist Kulturhauptstadt, U-Turm und Zollverein, Aufbruchstimmung und Zukunft, aber auch Opel und Karstadt: gestern Stahlwerk, heute Baustelle, morgen Marina. Hier leben sie alle zusammen: Menschen, die ihre Pulle Export und ihre Packung Zigaretten "anne Bude" kaufen, die Fans aus der Südtribüne, der Oppa im Schrebergarten ebenso... Read more

Feet on the Street

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more

Feet on the Street: - Abridged

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Roy Blount, Jr.

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more

Münster - Citywalk - Der akustische Stadtführer

By: Adam Riese

Narrated by: Adam Riese

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine unterhaltsam moderierte Besichtigungstour durch die Altstadt von Münster. Ein Rundgang der Sinne von und mit Adam Riese. Mehr als 100 Insider-Tipps. Sie treffen Götz Alsmann, Helge Schneider, Westbam, Titus, Henning Wehland, Jürgen Kehrer, den Original Kiepenkerl, den Türmer von St. Lamberti und viele andere. Read more

Time's Magpie - Abridged

By: Myla Goldberg

Narrated by: Myla Goldberg

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the critically acclaimed bestselling author of Bee Season comes a travelogue through the magical and historic city of Prague - a city of vast beauty and wonderfully intimate detail. In Time's Magpie, Myla Goldberg uses her eye for the wonder of tiny objects and everyday things to put us in touch with the essence of this haunting and... Read more

Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: McAvoy Layne

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Refuge on the Kona coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. These selections of Mark Twain's newspaper dispatches are both charming and informative. The light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing as he reveals the... Read more

A Year in Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue... Read more

The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic - Abridged

By: Kinky Friedman

Narrated by: Kinky Friedman

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jewboy, takes us on a rollicking, rock-and-rolling tour of his favorite city: Austin.

Maybe you want to know which restaurant President Bush rates as his favorite Austin burger joint. Or maybe you want a glimpse of Willie Nelson’s home life (hint: Willie plays a lot of golf). Perhaps you want to get the best... Read more