Travel America

The Intimate City

Walking New York

By: Michael Kimmelman
Narrated by: Michael Kimmelman, William DeMeritt, Karen Murray & Eileen Noonan
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

“The Intimate City was written for New York lovers, city connoisseurs, architect buffs, and for those curious about the infinite routes you can take on its streets. Compiled during the pandemic, Michael Kimmelman talks with various New Yorkers about their favorite walks throughout the city - ranging from history on the land itself, to the... Read more

A Walk in the Park

By: Kevin Fedarko
Narrated by: Kevin Fedarko
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

“A truly lovely, nearly spiritual, account of two men’s trek through one of the most recognizable, yet strangely alien, landscapes on Earth. The reverence Fedarko holds for human connectivity is evident in every page, and the canyon itself is not only the dominant presence in the narrative, but also the vehicle the author uses to encourage deeper... Read more

Raw Dog

The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“I know you've never actively wanted to know the history of the hot dog, but you should. Using the comfort food as a lens, Jamie Loftus examines all sorts of niche elements of societies and neighborhoods around the US and makes it eye opening, informative, and simply hilarious. Read more

Everything Now

Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

By: Rosecrans Baldwin
Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America's western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally, aesthetically,... Read more

Bicycling with Butterflies

My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

By: Sara Dykman
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award

Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration—a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts. Her... Read more

Back Roads and Better Angels

A Journey Into the Heart of American Democracy

By: Francis S. Barry
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 23 hours 59 minutes

A year into his marriage and having never driven an RV, Frank and his wife Laurel set out from New York City in a Winnebago to drive the nation's first transcontinental route, the Lincoln Highway, which zigzags through small towns and big cities from Times Square to San Francisco.



Using the spirit of Abraham Lincoln to guide them across the land,... Read more

Six Walks

In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

By: Ben Shattuck
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to... Read more

Wild

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

By: Cheryl Strayed
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
 
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon... Read more

A Walk in the Woods

Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Rob McQuay
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and... Read more

Blue Highways

A Journey into America

By: William Least Heat-Moon
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a... Read more