Travel audiobooks

Why your summer getaway is staffed by foreign workers

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

At the tip of Cape Cod, the iconic summer getaway Provincetown has a small year-round population that swells when the weather gets nice, welcoming an estimated 4 to 5 million tourists every year. Businesses there depend on foreign workers willing to work just a few months of the year. But this year, the number of available visas is way down.... Read more

The Mission Walker

By: Edie Littlefield Sundby

Narrated by: Jaimee Paul

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Audie Award Finalist for best inspirational book!IMAGE AWARD (Native Daughters of the Golden West)"The Mission Walker is a marvelous book, a moving meditation on the relationships between courage and faith, endurance and transcendence." Randall Sullivan, Creator, The Miracle Detective, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)Have you ever wanted to just... Read more

Drei Freunde, ein Taxi, kein Plan...Aber einmal um die Welt

By: Paul Archer & Johno Ellison

Narrated by: Matthias Ransberger & Felix Auer

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

DREI FREUNDE, EIN TAXI, KEIN PLAN ... ABER EINMAL UM DIE WELT Hey, mein Freund" sagte Paul, "laß uns mit dem Taxi nach Sydney fahren". Und so fing alles an… Drei Freunde, ein Abend im Pub – und eine verrückte Idee: Paul, Johno und Leigh kaufen auf ebay ein altes Londoner Taxi, nennen es Hannah und gehen auf Weltreise. Ihr erstes Ziel ist... Read more

Long Road from Jarrow

By: Stuart Maconie

Narrated by: Stuart Maconie

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Long Road from Jarrow, written and read by Stuart Maconie.

In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie, walks from... Read more

Miraculous Abundance

By: Perrine Hervé-Gruyer & Charles Hervé-Gruyer

Narrated by: Tim Bruce

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bec Hellouin model for growing food, sequestering carbon, creating jobs, and increasing biodiversity without using fossil fuels When Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change. Neither one had ever farmed before. Charles had been... Read more

Strays

By: Britt Collins

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other. Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon. One rainy night,... Read more

All the Agents and Saints

By: Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home—only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation’s foremost... Read more

The Longevity Plan

By: Dr. John Day & Matthew LaPlante

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

At forty-four, acclaimed cardiologist Dr. John Day was overweight and suffered from insomnia, degenerative joint disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. On six medications and suffering constant aches, he needed to make a change. While lecturing in China, he'd heard about a remote mountainous region known as Longevity Village, a... Read more

A Paris All Your Own

By: Eleanor Brown

Narrated by: Various

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women’s fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig, edited by Eleanor Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of Paris.
 
“My time in Paris,” says New York Times–bestselling... Read more

More Ketchup than Salsa

By: Joe Cawley

Narrated by: Nicholas Camm

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A laugh-out-loud, heartwarming memoir.
**Winner of ‘Best Travel Narrative’ by the British Guild of Travel Writers.**
"If you only buy one book this year... get this.""Probably the best book I have read this millenium.""Fantastic, hilarious, painful. Completely un-put-downable!"
Childhood sweethearts, Joe and Joy are broke and bored. They’re also... Read more

Mini London Travel Guide

By: HowExpert & Heather Clark

Narrated by: Steve Atkins-Linnell

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It's finally here - your vacation to London, England! There's just one thing. You have worked hard to save your money and buy your tickets to get there and find a place to stay, but you don't have much money left to spend on things to do. What now? Mini London Travel Guide will show you! There are suggestions about the following:Getting around.... Read more

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

By: Daniel L. Everett

Narrated by: Daniel Everett

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977—with his wife and three young children—intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding: The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for... Read more

Ragazza motorizzata

By: Nati Rasch

Narrated by: Nati Rasch

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Als Nati Rasch in einer hundekalten Herbstnacht zitternd auf ihrem italienischen Motorroller sitzt, kommt ihr der sehnsuchtsvolle Gedanke: „Damit müsste man einmal rund um Italien fahren!“ Von da an nimmt das Abenteuer seinen Lauf. Aus dem Inhalt: Mit einem Minimum an Gepäck und technischem Know-how, dafür aber einer maximalen Portion... Read more

Einfach los ...

By: Mady Host

Narrated by: Mady Host

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

MEIN KüstenWEG
Es ist nicht ihre erste Pilgerreise, doch diesmal ist Mady Host 4 Wochen allein auf dem Jakobsweg unterwegs. Aber so wirklich allein mit sich selbst ist man selten auf den bekannten Pilgerrouten nach Santiago de Compostela. Auf dem Küstenweg erwandert Mady ihre Freiheit. Aus dem Inhalt: Wochenlang allein zu wandern, spielen da... Read more

Ost-Erfahrung

By: Nicola Haardt

Narrated by: Nicola Haardt

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Lange war es nur ein Traum, dann packt Nicola Haardt ihr Fahrrad und fährt los - immer gen Osten. Ihr Ziel ist der Baikalsee, mehr als 6.000 km Luftlinie von ihrer Heimat entfernt. Ihr Weg führt sie durch Europa über den Ural bis nach Sibirien und Zentralasien.
Ein halbes Jahr lang radelt Nicola Haardt durch Osteuropa, das Baltikum und... Read more

What Happened That Night

By: Sheila O'Flanagan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NO. 1 EBOOK BESTSELLER

'A fabulous tale with refreshingly inspiring heroines' ***** Heat

Sheila O'Flanagan is the bestselling author of THE MISSING WIFE, and her new bestseller WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT will enchant readers who love the novels of Marian Keyes and Lisa Jewell.

Then

When Lola Fitzpatrick catches the eye of Philip Warren, she's... Read more

Ruthless River

By: Holly FitzGerald

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride—the wildest—down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles across Peru and Bolivia, ending up in a channel to nowhere,... Read more

Murder In Matera

By: Helene Stapinski

Narrated by: Helene Stapinski

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

""Tantalizing"" - NPR“A thrilling detective story… Stapinski pursues the study of her family’s criminal genealogy with unexpected emotional results.” — Library Journal A writer goes deep into the heart of Italy to unravel a century-old family mystery in this spellbinding memoir that blends the suspenseful twists of Making a Murderer and the... Read more

Alive

By: Piers Paul Read

Narrated by: Paul Ansdell

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks, they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable.... Read more

Love, Africa

By: Jeffrey Gettleman

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq... Read more

Fire and Sword (Wellington and Napoleon 3)

By: Simon Scarrow

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 21 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

FIRE AND SWORD is the unputdownable third novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. A must read for fans of Robert Harris.

1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor of France, his ultimate aim: to rule Europe. After defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar, he wins a glorious victory against Austria at Austerlitz. He then deposes... Read more

Someone Else's Summer

By: Rachel Bateman

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Julie Halpern and Morgan Matson comes a summer road trip story about adventure, sisters, and finding out who you truly want to be.

Anna's always idolized her older sister, Storm. So when Storm dies in a tragic car accident on the night of her high school graduation, Anna is completely lost and her family is torn apart. That is, until... Read more

Bonjour Kale

By: Kristen Beddard

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of how one expat woman left her beloved behind when she moved to France—her beloved kale, that is. Unable to find le chou kale anywhere upon moving to the City of Light with her new husband, and despite not really speaking French, Kristen Beddard launched a crusade to single-handedly bring kale to the country of croissants and... Read more

Tortillas to Totems

By: Sam Manicom

Narrated by: Sam Manicom

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Manicom’s dynamic fourth book is an enticing yet frequently challenging motorcycle journey across the dramatic landscapes of Mexico, the United States and Canada. Sam’s partner Birgit is no longer a novice motorcyclist – riding through southern Africa and South America turned her into a rider capable of facing any challenge. But Sam was... Read more