Travel audiobooks

The Oregon Trail - Abridged

By: Francis Parkman

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Francis Parkman's journal—written more than 150 years ago in 1846—provides an eye-witness account of one of the grandest adventures in American history. At age twenty-three, the Harvard-educated Bostonian traveled the Rocky Mountains, living among the Dakota Sioux. In his journal, he captured the color, spirit, and perspective of his era, as... Read more

So You Think You Know CANADA, Eh? - Abridged

By: Marianne Jennings

Narrated by: Melinda Wade

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How well do you REALLY know Canada? Did you know: Santa Claus is a Canadian citizen? That hockey is NOT the official national sport of Canada? The Canadian passport contains hidden images? Canada could have been named Britannia or Borealia? Parts of Canada are as cold as Mars? A Canadian pharmacist invented peanut butter? If you're Canadian,... 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

Flying with Confidence - Abridged

By: Patricia Furness-Smith

Narrated by: Patricia Furness-Smith

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fearful flyers need fear no more! This soothing hour-long relaxation programme, read by top psychologist and flying expert Patricia Furness-Smith, provides proven techniques for controlling anxiety, claustrophobia and panic. To be used both before and during flights to help you feel confident and in control from take off to landing, it... Read more

Main Hanuman - Abridged

By: Pawan Kumar

Narrated by: Ranvijay Pratap Singh

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lord Hanuman is one of the most integral part of the epic Ramayana, and is worshipped entire country. The fated encounter of Lord Ram and Hanuman in the epic teaches one many things, but seldom do we see a story written from the perspective of the latter. This new book bridges this very gap by making Hanuman the protagonist! Written in an... Read more

In 80 Tagen um die Welt - Abridged

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Philipp Moog

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Der reiche Engländer Phileas Fogg sorgt im ganzen Land für Aufsehen: Er wettet, dass er es schafft, in 80 Tagen um die Welt zu reisen, und setzt dabei sein ganzes Vermögen aufs Spiel. Niemals kann das gelingen, meinen seine Freunde. Doch Fogg veranlasst seinen Diener zum Packen der nötigsten Sachen und schon sitzen beide im Zug Richtung Dover.... 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

On Mexican Time - Abridged

By: Tony Cohan

Narrated by: Tony Cohan

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets... Read more

Out of Africa - Abridged

By: Isak Dinesen

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"When I was a young girl, it was very far from my thoughts to go to Africa, nor did I dream then that an African farm should be the place in which I should be perfectly happy."After the failure of her coffee farm, Karen Blixen returned to Denmark, where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. Out of Africa is a celebration of her life... 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

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (22) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Falkenberg und Malchow sind inzwischen Teile Berlins, zu Fontanes Zeiten fuhr man noch nach ¿auswärts¿. Ihm waren in Malchow die Pfarre und in Falkenberg die Spuren derer von Humboldt interessant. Im Dorf Kienbaum, am Ausgang der Liebenberger Heide, zur Linken des Flüßchens Löcknitz gelegen, beschäftigten ihn die märkischen... Read more

The Stories from The Italian Country Table - Abridged

By: Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Narrated by: Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Lynne Rossetto Kasper, author of The Splendid Table and host of PRI's award winning radio program of the same name, is a master at transporting her readers and listeners into the fascinating world of the Italian countryside. In Stories from The Italian Country Table, Lynne brings to life her adventures in rural Italy.

Stories from The Italian... Read more

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (24) - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als eines der größten und vornehmsten jener alten Wendendörfer, die lange vor der Urbarmachung die sumpfige Niederung des Oderbruchs im weiten Winkel umspannte, beschrieb Fontane das Schloß Gusow. Hier im in seiner Anlage auf das 17. Jahrhundert zurückgehende Schloß lebte von 1661 bis 1695 Georg von Derfflinger, berühmter... Read more

Touching The World - Abridged

By: Cathy Birchall

Narrated by: Bernard Smith

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

TOUCHING THE WORLD is the extraordinary story of Cathy Birchall, a blind woman, who set off with her companion Bernard Smith, to become the first blind person ever to circle the world on a motorbike, an 18 year old BMW R100. What transpired has become an inspirational worldwide story that challenges people to question their own self-imposed... Read more

Push the Rock - Abridged

By: R.W. Long

Narrated by: R.W. Long

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Living the American Dream at the pinnacle of his life, R.W. Long had it all: a loving family, a promising career, and a multitude of blessings. All of this was cut short with the diagnosis of an incurable disease. In the prime of life, he lost nearly everything he had worked for and felt he was given a life sentence and incarcerated in his own... Read more

Cork Boat - Abridged

By: John Pollack

Narrated by: John Pollack

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.

Cork Boat tells the story of Pollack’s improbable quest. Overcoming one obstacle after... Read more

100 Länder, 100 Frauen, 100 Räusche - Abridged

By: Michael Berndt & Rainer Schäfer

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Michael Berndt führt ein beschauliches Leben im ländlichen Sachsen. Er absolviert eine Metzgerlehre, nach der Arbeit trifft er sich gerne mit Freunden und Bekannten in der Kneipe, wo die Stammtischgespräche nicht selten in Unmut über die unerwünschten Fremden umschlagen, die einem ja doch nur die Arbeit wegnähmen. Michael Berndt sieht das... 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

My Kind of Place - Abridged

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book.

In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the... Read more

Peaceable Passage - Abridged

By: Beverly Mader Wilson

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a diminutive, highly stylized old man waiter came with a tray of food for our table, Stuart flung his arm out to make a point. As his arm came up, he caught the underside of the tray. Both the tray and its contents flew in every direction. The haughty waiter had all he could take. Though he said nothing, we knew we had lived up to what he... 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 Idle Traveller - Abridged

By: Dan Kieran

Narrated by: David Holmes

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dan Kieran was deputy editor of The Idler magazine from 2000–2010 before he turned his attention to writing books and slow travel articles for The Times, the Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and the Observer. He created a reputation for himself as the only travel writer who doesn’t fly, preferring much slower means of transportation instead.... Read more

No Shortcuts to the Top - Abridged

By: Ed Viesturs & David Roberts

Narrated by: Ed Viesturs

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much... Read more

Mit zwei Pferden um die Welt - Abridged

By: Manfred S. Schulze

Narrated by: Manfred S. Schulze

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reiseerzählung nach Tagebuchaufzeichnungen von der ersten und einzigen Erdumrundung zu Pferde. Ein viereinhalbjähriges Abenteuer zwischen Verzweiflung und Triumph. Ständige Bedrohungen durch Korruption und Willkür, Rücksichtslosigkeit und Straßenräuber, schweißen die Pferde und den Abenteurer zusammen und lassen sie zu einer untrennbaren Einheit... Read more