Travel audiobooks

Epic Continent

By: Nicholas Jubber

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020

Award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber journeys across Europe exploring Europe's epic poems, from the Odyssey to Beowulf, the Song of Roland to the Nibelungenlied, and their impact on European identity in these turbulent times. These are the stories that made Europe.

Journeying... Read more

Spying on the South

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Tony Horwitz

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
 
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law... Read more

Explore North Korea

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Baekdu spa, hyongje falls, pegae hill, and the chiangbbai mountain range, are world class attractions that lures in millions of tourists, historians, and explorers to visit North Korea year after year. The number of historically famous destinations, museums, parks and the recreational facilities available in North Korea can only astound the... Read more

Monsieur Mediocre

By: John von Sothen

Narrated by: John von Sothen

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ

Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the... Read more

The Secret Knowledge of Water

By: Craig Childs

Narrated by: Craig Childs

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Naturalist Craig Childs's "utterly memorable and fantastic" study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post). 

Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the... Read more

19 Year Old World Traveler

By: HowExpert & Briana Grenert

Narrated by: Teresa Tucker

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

What began as a wild idea turned into the adventure of a lifetime - this is the story of how I traveled around world at age 19, and who I met on the journey. Cult members and college students, chain smokers and cameramen, this story recounts a slew of traveling adventures and misadventures. It’s about holding your cool while detained in... Read more

Cry of the Kalahari

By: Mark Owens & Delia Owens

Narrated by: Donna Postel & Sean Runnette

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied unique animals and were confronted with danger from drought, fire, storms, and the animals they loved. This bestselling book is for both travelers and animal lovers. Read more

Gumbo Life

By: Ken Wells

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the answer is universal: "Momma." The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans—all had a hand in the pot.... Read more

The Danube

By: Nick Thorpe

Narrated by: Nick Thorpe

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar worldThe magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Traveling its full length... Read more

Foreign Correspondence

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent,... Read more

The Corner Shop

By: Babita Sharma

Narrated by: Babita Sharma

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
WINNER OF THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARD FOR AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK THAT PROMOTES DIVERSITY

'Nuanced, human and engaging' Nikesh Shukla, Observer
'Full of life, characters, gossip and all the richness of the local community' Sir David Jason
'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater, Observer
'Cleverly links... Read more

Heida

By: Steinunn Sigurðardóttir

Narrated by: Lucy Paterson

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring story of Icelandic sheep farmer, former model and feminist heroine has become an international bestseller and won both the Icelandic Booksellers' Prize and Women's Literature Prize.

I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable... Read more

La Passione

By: Dianne Hales

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A jubilant celebration of Italy’s outsize impact on culture, from literature to art, music to movies, that “masterfully examines the multitude of reasons why so many people fall in love with Italy and the Italian lifestyle” (Forbes)

Can you imagine painting without Leonardo, opera without Verdi, fashion without Armani, food without the signature... Read more

Dispatches from the Sweet Life

By: William Powers

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. In his book Twelve by Twelve, Powers lived in an off-grid tiny house in rural North Carolina. In New Slow City, he and his wife, Melissa, inhabited a Manhattan... Read more

Newbie World Traveler

By: HowExpert & Sarah Hinds-Friedl

Narrated by: Erin Grassie

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming from a small town in the mountains in California where “traveling” meant driving three hours to the nearest shopping mall, Sarah grew up with an itch to see the world. At 26, she’s visited over 20 countries with no plans of slowing down.Even though she’s seen quite a few places, Sarah isn’t a professional traveler. What she hopes to share... Read more

Berliner Sagen und Legenden

By: Kristina Hammann

Narrated by: Heiner Giersberg

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Berlin, die Stadt der Moderne, schläft nie. Sie ist das deutsche Epizentrum neuzeitlicher Errungenschaften. Medien, Wissenschaft, Politik alles rotiert hier auf Weltniveau. Solche Superlativen machen vergessen, dass hinter der Hektik ein historisches Vermächtnis liegt. Dieses Hörbuch gibt den Blick dorthin zurück frei: Kristina Hammann hat die... Read more

The New Paris

By: Lindsey Tramuta & Charissa Fay

Narrated by: Jenna Rubino

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The city long-adored for its medieval beauty, old-timey brasseries, and corner cafés has even more to offer today. In the last few years, a flood of new ideas and creative locals has infused a once-static, traditional city with a new open-minded sensibility and energy.Journalist Lindsey Tramuta offers detailed insight into the rapidly evolving... Read more

Three Years in Wonderland

By: Todd James Pierce

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park—fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told, full story of "the happiest place on earth." Using information from over one hundred... Read more

Solo World Traveler

By: HowExpert & Deneice Arthurton

Narrated by: Catherine O'Connor

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Solo World Traveler is packed with 101 tips, hacks, and tricks for the solo world traveler. Together they will show you how heading out into the world all by yourself is not just possible but will also arm you with everything you need to turn your own travel dreams into reality. Inside you will find:  Ways of pushing through the fear - Many... Read more

Running Outside the Comfort Zone

By: Susan Lacke

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Running offers much more than road racing!



After a decade of writing about running, sports columnist Susan Lacke found herself in a serious running rut. The runners around her seemed to be thriving, setting goals, and having fun, but her own interest in running was lackluster.



Seeking to reengage with the sport she once loved, Lacke spent a year... Read more

The Atlas of Happiness

By: Helen Russell

Narrated by: Helen Russell

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This charming and entertaining guide offers listeners the chance to learn and be inspired by the "untranslatable" beliefs and unique perspectives on how to live a happier life from countries around the world. Listeners can seek and find happiness in their everyday lives guided by the diverse assortment of advice, history, and philosophies on how... Read more

The Indifferent Stars Above

By: Daniel James Brown

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves,... Read more

A Dream of Italy

By: Nicky Pellegrino

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Live your dream of Italy...

Here is your chance to buy your own home in southern Italy for less than the price of a cup of coffee. The picturesque mountain town of Montenello is selling off some of its historic buildings for just ONE EURO each. The only conditions are that purchasers must renovate their new home within the next three years and... Read more

An Italian Affair

By: Caroline Montague

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Love. War. Family. Betrayal.

Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in London to Italy with her daughter Diana and sets about rebuilding her life.

Under the threat... Read more