Travel audiobooks

Adventure Capitalist

By: Jim Rogers

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Drive . . . and grow rich!

The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves... Read more

How the World Sees America

By: Mark Hertsgaard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In a profound sense, most U.S. citizens are insulated from the realties of the rest of the world.  Even with worldwide communication technologies, the major U.S. media filters out much of what goes on beyond American borders, only focusing on major events.  Here, a former overseas journalist and writer, Mark Hertsgaard, speaks of how others... Read more

Touch the Top of the World

By: Erik Weihenmayer

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual... Read more

Revenge - Abridged

By: Laura Blumenfeld

Narrated by: Laura Blumenfeld

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

In 1986, Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO responsible for attacks on several tourists in the Old City. Her father lived, but Blumenfeld's desire for revenge haunted her. This is her story.
Traveling to Israel, Blumenfeld gathers stories and methods of avengers as she plots to infiltrate... Read more

Roughing It

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip to be a three-month "vacation;" not surprisingly for someone of Twain's temperament, the trip lasted seven years. His journey, like his book, has a way... Read more

Last Breath - Abridged

By: Peter Stark

Narrated by: Peter Stark

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Sudden, extreme deaths have always fascinated us-- and now more than ever as athletes and travelers rise to the challenges of high-risk sports and journeys on the edge. In this spellbinding book, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer Peter Stark reenacts the dramas of what happens inside our bodies, our minds, and our souls when we push... Read more

Paradise

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a... Read more

French Lessons

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful, delicious, and best-selling account of the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France, from the beloved author of A Year in Provence.

The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be. We visit the Foire aux Escargots. We attend a truly French... Read more

Far Appalachia

By: Noah Adams

Narrated by: Noah Adams

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn't just tell stories, he lets them unfold quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered and bestselling author of Piano Lessons takes us on a river journey through the heart of Appalachia--a journey shared by pioneers and preachers, white-water... Read more

Peter Mayle's Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle & Patrick Macnee

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world. Now, share their adventures, pleasures, and frustrations: the joys and occasional hazards of wining and dining in France, taking part in goat races, attending a... Read more

Last Trout in Venice

By: Doug Lansky

Narrated by: Paul Mercer

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

With a bottomless taste for the absurd, nothing is too outrageous for Doug Lansky. In the plucky, hilarious, and irreverent spirit of Lansky's popular syndicated travel column, “Vagabond,” comes Last Trout in Venice, a book of adventurous and wacky travel essays that will have you laughing out loud. In Naples, Italy, Lansky rents a car precisely... Read more

Roads - Abridged

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them. 

Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry has felt the pull of the road. His town was... Read more

On The Road With Charles Kuralt - Abridged

By: Charles Kuralt

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Kuralt's classic bestseller is now on audio!

On The Road With Charles Kuralt

Featuring Charles Kuralt with an introduction by Wallace Kuralt

"To read the front pages, you might conclude that Americans are mostly out for themselves...but you can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for... Read more

In Tuscany

By: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany’s people, food, landscapes, and art, from the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and See You in the Piazza
 
“A love letter to Italy written in precise and passionate language of near-poetic density.”—Newsday
 
In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at... Read more

Peace Through Tourism

By: Louis D'Amore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis D'Amore is the founding president of the International Institute of Peace through Tourism. The Canadian government commissioned him to develop a code of ethics and guidelines for sustainable tourism that has become an international model. D'Amore says, "World leaders are now beginning to realize that if we want peace, we must prepare for... Read more

The Last River - Abridged

By: Todd Balf

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of the ill-fated October 1998 expedition of an American whitewater kayaking team who traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." For Wick Walker and Tom McEwan, extreme whitewater pioneers,... Read more

A Journey to Consciousness

By: Alan Lithman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Hitchhiking from London to the extreme desert of Southern India, Alan Lithman followed his calling, merging his 1960s activism with his spiritual hunger, to join the international community of Auroville.  Letting his old spiritual beliefs of "transcendence" go, Lithman embraced  "transformation", which is described by Sri Aurobindo as an... Read more

Bella Tuscany

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more

In a Sunburned Country

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.

His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that... Read more

Faithful Travelers - Abridged

By: James Dodson

Narrated by: James Dodson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In Final Rounds, James Dodson told the poignant story of the golf trip of a lifetime with his terminally ill father. Now, armed with a fly-fishing rod and reel, he embarks with his seven-year-old daughter on an equally memorable journey across America in search of clear-running streams, swift elusive fish, and the eternal truths that only nature... Read more

Under the Tuscan Sun - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword
 
“This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the... Read more

I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more

Notes From a Small Island - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed... Read more

Bella Tuscany - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more