Travel audiobooks

1923

By: Ned Boulting

Narrated by: Ned Boulting

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents 1923 written and read by Ned Boulting.

WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORT
NOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

'An absorbing mix of historical sleuthing and travel writing'
The Telegraph

'[a] fascinating and often touching book… Wonderful'... Read more

National Dish

By: Anya von Bremzen

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Financial Times, The Guardian, and BBC's The Food Programme

“Anya von Bremzen, already a legend of food writing and a storytelling inspiration to me, has done her best work yet. National Dish is a must-read for all those who believe in building longer tables where food is what bring us all together.” —José Andrés

“If... Read more

The Mysterious British Isles: A Collection of Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena across Britain and Ireland

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Great Britain is an ancient land steeped in history and tradition, filled with prehistoric ruins, majestic castles, and a countryside sculpted from millennia of human habitation.. Its rolling countryside is dotted with prehistoric burial mounds and stone circles. Brooding castles hold tales of bloodshed and honor. Medieval churches have... Read more

Camino de la Luna - Compassion and Self Compassion

By: Pearl Howie

Narrated by: Pearl Howie

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

What is compassion?
Something alive perhaps, that can only be understood in practice. So often confused with pity or the self-sacrificing impulse to take on another’s burden, to make things better, to fix. It takes strength and delicacy and it doesn’t mean giving away your life savings.
Self compassion is sometimes the place between pushing... Read more

Unter Bäumen

By: Benno Fürmann & Philipp Hedemann

Narrated by: Benno Fürmann

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Meine Fragen an das Leben »Dies ist kein Ratgeber, sondern eine Auseinandersetzung mit mir und meiner Beziehung zur Natur. Es geht um meine Lust am Leben und meine Überforderung in anspruchsvollen Zeiten. Ich erzähle von dem, was mich umtreibt, was mich aufbaut, meinen Sehnsüchten. Ich erzähle von entscheidenden Stationen meines Lebens und den... Read more

This is Europe

By: Ben Judah

Narrated by: Dan Connolly

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023

'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine,... Read more

A Line in the World

By: Dorthe Nors

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and... Read more

Summer at the Chateau

By: Annabel French

Narrated by: Laura Kirman

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

‘A Provencal sun drenched read that conjures up the scent of summer in France.’ Julie Caplin A newly single woman. A tall, dark and handsome stranger. A chateau that keeps bringing them together. What could go wrong? When Lizzie Summers is jilted at the altar, she’s left completely... Read more

Map Addict

By: Mike Parker

Narrated by: Mike Parker

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said…' Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or... Read more

Eksyvä löytää: matkustamisen ja matkallaolon tärkeydestä

By: Anneli Vainio

Narrated by: Tanja Talvensalo

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Hyväntuulinen kirja kaukokaipuusta, seikkailusta ja kotiinpaluusta.Moni meistä tunnistaa itsessään seikkailijan, jota uteliaisuus, uudet kokemukset ja kiehtovat maisemat vetävät maailmalle. Rautatieasemilla katse seuraa lähteviä junia, silmät bongaavat taivaalta lentokoneita, ja merenrannalla horisontissa näkyvä laiva saa sisimmässä aikaan... Read more

Asia—Culture Smart!

By: Paul Norbury, Becky Stephen, Kathy Flower & Ind...

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck & Peter Noble

Length: 18 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to China, Japan, and India. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips on... Read more

Graveyard of the Pacific

By: Randall Sullivan

Narrated by: Lynch Travis

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it. Since then, the commercial importance of... Read more

Europe—Culture Smart!

By: Barry Tomalin, Belen Aguado Viguer & Marian Meaney

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck & Peter Noble

Length: 24 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to Italy, Germany, and Spain. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips... Read more

The Last Ride of the Pony Express

By: Will Grant

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime.  The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit... Read more

The Heartbeat of the Wild

By: David Quammen

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed author David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature and explores the challenge of balancing the needs of both. For more than two decades, award-winning science and nature writer David Quammen has traveled to Earth's most far-flung and fragile destinations, sending back... Read more

The Grey Soul of London

By: Robert Kingham

Narrated by: Robert Kingham

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

‘He who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray’s Inn Road will never find those secrets elsewhere.’ – Arthur MachenThe Grey Soul of London is an audio guided tour. Robert Kingham takes a walk across the worn and hollowed stones of the Angel and Clerkenwell districts of... Read more

An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World

By: Jared Gulian

Narrated by: Jared Gulian

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The hilarious and endearing true tale of two urban Americans who escaped to a tiny olive farm in rural New Zealand.For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and coming to tiny Wellington, New Zealand, was a big enough switch from the bright lights of big cities. So when his partner CJ decided they just had to buy a rundown olive grove in the... Read more

Und sie bewegt sich doch! - Bahngeschichten (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Horst Evers, Dietmar Wischmeyer & Cordula Strat...

Narrated by: Horst Evers, Dietmar Wischmeyer, Johann König, ...

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie wird von der Politik kaputtgespart und gleichzeitig als Klimaretter gepriesen, und vielleicht teilen wir ja alle dieses sonderbare Verhältnis zwischen Geringschätzung und Zuneigung, wenn es um dieses gute alte Verkehrsmittel geht: die Bahn. Wer hätte nicht schon geflucht, wenn sie mal wieder Nena-Style fährt (irgendwo, irgendwie, irgendwann)... Read more

The Lost Art of Being Lost

By: Roger Wheelock

Narrated by: Roger Wheelock

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"A wonderful ramble across worlds that really don't exist anymore. Filled with enormous charm and rare insight." - Michael Elcock"At once wise, thoughtful, intimate, wistful, and loving...(with) much human goodness, a good helping of miracles, and more than a few luminous moments. It is also a cry for reflection on the state of the natural... Read more

Gebrauchsanweisung für Tokio und Japan (ungekürzt)

By: Andreas Neuenkirchen

Narrated by: Denis Moschitto

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sumo, Sony und Sashimi: So viel Japan kennt jeder. Mangas, Karaoke und andere Importe gehören längst auch bei uns dazu - und doch ist uns ihre Heimat fremd. Andreas Neuenkirchen entschlüsselt aufs Unterhaltsamste Land und Leute. Er verrät, wie Sie in Restaurants und Privathaushalten, in buddhistischen Tempeln, beim Small Talk oder in... Read more

Luis & Lea auf großer Abenteuerreise

By: Melanie Klotz & Norbert Klotz

Narrated by: Alex Bolte

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Luis & Lea gehen mit ihrem Opa Balduin und seiner Freundin Fanny auf große Abenteuerreise. Die beiden Geschwister sind zum ersten Mal ohne ihre Eltern unterwegs und entdecken vier spannende Länder. Ihr Opa war früher Seefahrer und hat überall auf der Welt Freunde, die er mit seinen Enkeln und Fanny besuchen möchte. In dieser spannenden,... Read more

I Should Have Left the Whiskey

By: Graham Field

Narrated by: Graham Field

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

I Should Have Left the Whiskey is the first book in the Rambling On trilogy – compelling tales from a time when motorcycles were left in the shed and global exploration slowed to the pace of cycling.These diaries divulge two very different journeys in Asia: because progressing into enlightened India required some back-pedalling through darkest... Read more

Travel Tips

By: Kyle Rasmussen

Narrated by: Kyle Rasmussen

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel Tips by Kyle Rasmussen is a deep look at some of the typical things that every traveler experiences and tips for how to make each aspect of the trip your best trip ever. This true compilation from the mind of an experienced and avid traveler provides insight into travel in the modern world. Mr. Rasmussen teaches readers to use a myriad of... Read more

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop

By: Alba Donati

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller

Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recounting her experience opening a bookshop in a village in Tuscany.

Alba Donati was used to her hectic life working as a book publicist in Italy—a life that made her happy and allowed her to meet prominent international authors—but... Read more