Travel audiobooks

The Jaguar Smile

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice." So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp... Read more

Nepal - Culture Smart!

By: Tessa Feller

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Smart! Nepal provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes... Read more

Tanzania - Culture Smart!

By: Quintin Winks

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't pack anxiety in your suitcase! By reading Culture Smart! Tanzania before you go, will ease your travel, help you to make friends and avoid confusion. Culture Smart! Tanzania will help you to understand local manners, customs and laws. Culture Smart! Tanzania goes the extra mile to help you brush up on your cultural small talk and will make... Read more

Living the Yogic Life in a Material World

By: Karan Bajaj

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us have discovered that life is never a straight line. It actually resembles a series of zig-zags. We zig in order to strengthen our creative gifts. We zag in order to provide a roof over our head and food on the table. This conversation looks at the life adventures of a father, a husband, a writer, a corporate marketer, a world... Read more

Walking the Nile

By: Levison Wood

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda, where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water, Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile. He followed the river for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations—Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of... Read more

The Missing Wife: The uplifting and compelling smash-hit bestseller!

By: Sheila O'Flanagan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore will love Sunday Times bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan's THE MISSING WIFE.

Have you ever wanted to disappear?

When Imogen Naughton vanishes, everyone who knows her is shocked. She has a perfect marriage. Her handsome husband treats her like a princess. She's always said how lucky she... Read more

Americana

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: Kris Koscheski

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than fifteen years, bestselling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture.



In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with... Read more

The Last Dive

By: Bernie Chowdhury

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under 230 feet of water, only a half-day's mission from... Read more

The Wonder Trail

By: Steve Hely

Narrated by: Steve Hely

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their backpack and hiking boots.
 
The Wonder Trail is... Read more

Knitlandia

By: Clara Parkes

Narrated by: Clara Parkes

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty New York Times bestselling memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. 
 
Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite listeners and devoted crafters on excursions to... Read more

Ireland - Culture Smart!

By: John Scotney

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The island of Ireland is famous for its timeless beauty, the variety of its landscape, its quiet towns and lively cities, the poetic and literary genius of so many of its citizens, its music and folklore, and its colorful and bloody history. Businesspeople and visitors who don’t know Ireland will find this book an invaluable introduction to the... Read more

Voyager

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas.Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. “Since childhood, I’ve longed for escape, for... Read more

Chile - Culture Smart!

By: Caterina Perrone

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Smart! Chile provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in Chile, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide will tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will... Read more

Walking The Himalayas

By: Levison Wood

Narrated by: Levison Wood

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range.

Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV" (The Times UK). Now, following in the footsteps of the great... Read more

Best European Cities You Must See

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Europe: the name is quite enough to describe the beauty of nature lying within the continent. Europe holds the westernmost part of the Eurasia. To the north there lies icy Arctic Ocean, at west there is beautiful Atlantic Ocean. South of the Europe is bordered by Mediterranean Sea. Water shades of Ural and Caucasus Mountains are considered the... Read more

History of China

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In the present time, china is one of the most developed countries in Asia and the world as well. It has gone through a very long phase to be capable of calling itself a super power. Journey of china is thousands of years old. Before the existence of Xia dynasty, china was nothing as a united empire. Most parts of the modern china were ruled by... Read more

Mother Tongue

By: Christine Gilbert

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman's quest to learn Mandarin in Beijing, Arabic in Beirut, and Spanish in Mexico, with her young family along for the ride. Imagine negotiating for a replacement carburetor in rural Mexico with words you're secretly pulling from a pocket dictionary. Imagine your two-year-old asking for more niunai at dinner-a Mandarin word for milk that... Read more

Finding Fontainebleau

By: Thad Carhart

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the château itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings, its grounds the perfect place... Read more

How May We Hate You?

By: Anna Drezen & Todd Dakotah Briscoe

Narrated by: Anna Drezen & Todd Dakotah Briscoe

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people think hotel employees are effortlessly cheerful, naturally helpful, and genuinely like their work. 
 
Most people are wrong.
 
Find out what really goes on in the world of hospitality with this hilarious book full of funny and absurd stories, anecdotes told in dialogue, factoids, and hoax pop quizzes by two veteran concierges who... Read more

Als ich in den Westen kam

By: Nicki Pawlow

Narrated by: Nicki Pawlow

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Nach der Flucht ihrer Familie aus der DDR muss sich die 13-jährige Ich-Erzählerin erst einmal im Westen zurechtfinden. Hier in der schwäbischen Provinz ist alles so ganz anders als "drüben". Die Geschichte handelt von der Absicht, in einem neuen Leben anzukommen, von der Enttäuschung zu scheitern und von dem Willen es erneut zu versuchen. Mit... Read more

The One True Barbecue

By: Rien Fertel

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Whole hog barbecue is a culinary art form that is both disappearing and experiencing a renaissance. In The One True Barbecue, Rien Fertel chronicles the uniquely southern art of whole hog barbecue—America's original barbecue—through the professional pitmasters who make a living firing, smoking, flipping, and cooking 200-plus pound pigs.

More... Read more

Switzerland - Culture Smart!

By: Kendall Hunter

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

There is far more to Switzerland than beautiful scenery, chocolate, watches, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is full of surprises and anything but bland. This small, rugged, landlocked country at the heart of Europe has been a confederation since the first three cantons came together in a defensive alliance in 1291.... Read more

Britain - Culture Smart!

By: Paul Norbury

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Cool Britannia is alive and well today. British culture is at the top of its game-in fashion, popular music, art and entertainment, science and technology, new inventions, and in the rediscovered skills and excellence in engineering that make it Germany's leading trading partner in Europe. As a family of nations, the British are inventive,... Read more

UAE - Culture Smart!

By: John Walsh

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Smart! UAE will help you turn your visit - whether it's for business or pleasure - into a memorable and enriching experience. Its contents include: local customs and traditions; the impact of history, religion, and politics; the Emiratis at home, work, and play; eating and drinking, Emirati style; dos, don'ts, and taboos; business... Read more