Adventures & Exploration

Down Under

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Bill Bryson
• Narrated By William Roberts
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Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it. The people are cheerful, their cities are clean, the beer is cold, and the sun nearly always shines.

Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Robyn Davidson
• Narrated By Angie Milliken
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Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her camels when they get skittish and nursing them when they are injured, Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia's landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people, and a willingness to cast away the trappings of her former identity. Tracks is the compelling, candid story of her odyssey of discovery and transformation.

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Rolf Potts
• Narrated By Rolf Potts

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.

The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Louis Theroux
• Narrated By Louis Theroux

For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them.

The Pilgrimage

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Paulo Coelho
• Narrated By Sean Runnette
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Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own path. In the end, we discover that the extraordinary is always found in the ordinary and simple ways of everyday people. Part adventure story, part guide to self-discovery, this compelling tale delivers the perfect combination of enchantment and insight.

Great Australian Outback Nurses Stories

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Bill 'Swampy' Marsh
• Narrated By Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, Jacqui Katona

A collection of real-life accounts from nurses in the Australian bush - inspiring, poignant, horrifying and hilarious. Stories and memories that capture the experience of nursing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh. With hearts as big as the outback, rural and remote nurses are a dedicated and gutsy bunch who work selflessly to care for their communities, often in isolated and inhospitable conditions, with few resources but plenty of experience, courage and care.

Notes From a Small Island

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Bill Bryson
• Narrated By William Roberts
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After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland, and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him.

Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Peter FitzSimons
• Narrated By Paul English

Australia's best-selling nonfiction author of all time. Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision and Western Base on Queen Mary Land, he headed east on an extraordinary sledging trek with his companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Dr Xavier Mertz.

The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Bill Bryson
• Narrated By Nathan Osgood
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Twenty years ago Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart and became the best-selling travel book ever and was voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain. Now, to mark the 20th anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey around Britain to see what has changed.

Into the Wild

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Jon Krakauer
• Narrated By Philip Franklin

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.

The Wind and the Monkey

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 1 min)
• By Robert G. Barrett

Robert G. Barrrett's latest Les Norton adventure, The Wind and the Monkey, set in Port Stephens, NSW, is a romance as well as an adventure - proving once again Barrett's enormous appeal to both men and women readers.

Sailing Alone Around the World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Joshua Slocum
• Narrated By Bernard Mayes
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Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless New England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. A little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. This is Slocum’s own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage of the Spray.

The Lost Continent: Travels In Small Town America

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Bill Bryson
• Narrated By William Roberts
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Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after 10 years in England he decided to go home, to a foreign country. In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.

This is Not a Drill

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Paul Carter
• Narrated By Paul Carter
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Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Starting with action and mayhem galore This Is Not A Drill sets an unrelenting pace that just doesn't let up, as Paul almost drowns when the Russian rig he's working on begins to capsize; is reunited with his Dad - another adrenaline junkie; gets married; hangs out with his rig pig buddies in exotic locations; and spends a couple of interesting weeks in Afghanistan.

Made in America

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Bill Bryson
• Narrated By William Roberts

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.

Travels with Charley

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 27 mins)
• By John Steinbeck
• Narrated By Peter Marinker
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Believing that a good, interesting life is marked by quality, not quantity, John Steinbeck took note of his itchy feet and prepared to travel. He was accompanied by his French poodle, Charley, diplomat and watchdog, across the states of America from Maine to California. Moving through woods and forests, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and wildernesses, Steinbeck observed America and the Americans with a humorous and sometimes sceptical eye.

The White Road: A pilgrimage of sorts

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Edmund de Waal
• Narrated By Michael Maloney

A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain.

A Walk in the Woods

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Bill Bryson
• Narrated By Bill Bryson

The Appalachian Trail covers 14 states, and over 2,000 miles. It stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the world. (Compare this with the Pennine Way, which is a mere 250 miles long.) It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas.

Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Michael Palin
• Narrated By Michael Palin

In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. The rules were simple. He had to make the journey in 80 days using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg.

A Good Year

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Peter Mayle
• Narrated By Time Pigott-Smith
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Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will, an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour's drive from Avignon.

Rowing the Pacific: 7,000 Miles from Japan to San Francisco

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Mick Dawson
• Narrated By Mick Dawson
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Storms, fatigue, equipment failure, intense hunger and lack of water are just a few of the challenges that ocean rower Mick Dawson endured whilst attempting to complete one of the world's 'Last Great Firsts'. In this nail-biting true story of man versus nature, former Royal Marine commando Dawson, a Guinness World Record holder for ocean rowing and high-seas adventurer, takes on the Atlantic and ultimately the North Pacific.

How to Hike the Appalachian Trail: A Comprehensive Guide to Plan and Prepare for a Successful Thru-Hike

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Chris Cage
• Narrated By John E Broussard

If you are planning on (or just thinking about) hiking the Appalachian Trail, this book is for you. Planning an Appalachian Trail thru-hike is overwhelming. I know. I spent months researching every question I could think of before starting the six-month journey. Even after all of that research, there were countless mistakes I made. This book is everything I wish I would have known before starting. Inside is a step-by-step guide to efficiently plan for a successful thru-hike. Complete with personal tips and experiences.

Nero and the Golden House (The wonders of Archaeology)

• UNABRIDGED (23 mins)
• By Maria Grazia Nini
• Narrated By Clive Riche

The story of Emperor Nero and the building of his Golden Palace. The reconstruction of the great fire of 64 AD, which destroyed the capital of the Empire, and the Golden Palace of Nero: from the crumbling insulae of the Suburra to the sumptuous architecture of the Domus Aurea, from Nero's artificial lake to the Colosseum, from the Neronian porticoes on the Via Sacra to the glories of the Imperial Fora, from the imposing bulk of the Colossus of Nero to the architectural revolution of the Octagonal Hall.

Toronto: Cities, Sights & Other Places You Need to Visit

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 27 mins)
• By Writing Souls' Travel Guides
• Narrated By Jeff Moon

Welcome to Canada, home to the famous Niagara Falls, the beautiful Hopewell Rocks and many other scenic, natural attractions you can't find anywhere else in the world. For all its natural beauty, its peoples are just as remarkable and interesting. Let's get to know a bit about Canada and its people. Canada is by size, the largest country in North America and second in overall in the world behind Russia. It is renowned worldwide for its vast, untouched wilderness, its blend of cultures, and multifaceted history.

Thailand: Cities, Sights & Other Places You Need to Visit, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 1 min)
• By Writing Souls' Travel Guides
• Narrated By Don Wang

Thailand is officially called the Kingdom of Thailand and was formerly known as Siam. It is located at the center of the Indochinese peninsula in Southeast Asia. It has a total area of approximately 513,000 km2 (198,000 sq. mi), is the world's 50th largest country, and has around a population of 66 million making it the 20th most- populous country in the world.

India: The 30 Best Tips for Your Trip to India - the Places You Have to See

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 14 mins)
• By Traveling The World
• Narrated By Trevor Clinger

India is a fascinating country that packs many things into a massive space. With the diversity of landscape and culture, the country does not cease to amaze its visitors throughout these year. This audiobook will help you to make the most out of your time in India. You will get to know the most fascinating things to do and see in New Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Kolkata to name a few of the most famous destinations to visit. This audiobook provides some unique suggestions and will help you to make this the best time of your life.

Greece: Where to Go, What to See - A Greece Travel Guide

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 7 mins)
• By Worldwide Travellers
• Narrated By Chris Brown
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Are you looking to visit a country you've never been to? Have you already booked your trip and you're now curious what to expect? Maybe a friend loved the trip and you want to have the same great experience now. Either way, we got you covered! In This single guide, you will find all the information you'll need.

Spirit of the Wind: A Woman's View of Sailing Across the Ocean

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Bunny Throckmorton
• Narrated By Natasha Harper

This audiobook is the story of sailing across the ocean from Guam to San Francisco on our wonderful sailboat, the "Spirit of the Wind", a 41 foot Taiwan-built Ketch designed by William Garden. A group of 20-something kids went to Guam looking for the meaning of life, bought a boat, fixed it up, and learned to sail across the ocean. It was a beautiful and spiritual journey, while at times was totally and completely terrifying. It introduced me to the South Pacific Islands and the wonderful and gracious people there - it was truly a paradise.

Dom Joly’s Big American Vacation: An Audible Original

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Dom Joly
• Narrated By Dom Joly

Be warned - this raw, unpolished adventure across the States contains alligator wrestling, leather chaps and Vegas weddings. As a multi-award winning comedian and travel journalist, Dom Joly's take on any destination is always witty, sharp, hilarious and irreverent - even more so when that destination is the backwaters of the USA. Join Dom on a three-week odyssey across the USA as he explores the weird and wonderful oddities of American culture with his trusty sidekick (and complete stranger) Fiona.

The Old Patagonian Express

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Paul Theroux
• Narrated By Norman Dietz

The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered - the tedious Mr Thornberry in Limón and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires.

Beijing: Where to Go, What to See - a Beijing Travel Guide (China,Shanghai,Beijing,Xian,Peking,Guilin,Hong Kong, Book 3)

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 28 mins)
• By Worldwide Travellers
• Narrated By Paul Gewuerz
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Are you looking to visit a country you've never been to? Have you already booked your trip and you're now curious what to expect? Maybe a friend loved the trip and you want to have the same great experience now. Either way, we got you covered! In this single guide, you will find all the information you'll need.

Adventure Junkie: How to Be Adventurous, Get Rid of Boredom, and Make Life Interesting

• UNABRIDGED (22 mins)
• By Howie Junkie
• Narrated By How-To Junkie
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Do you find your dreaded days never-ending but filled with work, everyday? Are you bored by monotony? Are you seeking more thrill, fun, and excitement? Now do you ever wish your life was like one big action movie, running around tirelessly, going on secret missions, chasing bad guys, or recovering stolen valuables? OK, that's a little far-fetched. However, the next best thing you can do is have more adventures in your life!

Great Australian Outback Nurses Stories

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Bill 'Swampy' Marsh
• Narrated By Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, Jacqui Katona

A collection of real-life accounts from nurses in the Australian bush - inspiring, poignant, horrifying and hilarious. Stories and memories that capture the experience of nursing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh. With hearts as big as the outback, rural and remote nurses are a dedicated and gutsy bunch who work selflessly to care for their communities, often in isolated and inhospitable conditions, with few resources but plenty of experience, courage and care.

Mirror to Damascus

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Colin Thubron
• Narrated By Sean Barrett

Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well as being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, Colin Thubron explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes in an amusing and perceptive manner.

Mexico: Mexico Travel Guide: The 30 Best Tips for Your Trip to Mexico - The Places You Have to See, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (53 mins)
• By Traveling The World
• Narrated By Sri Gordon
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You want to exactly know where to go and what to do? You found the right audiobook. An adventure for your senses, from unbridled energy, passion, dance, blazing colors, feisty music, mouthwatering food, and more - Mexico is a world-class travel destination, with history and culture that remains untarnished. If this is your first time in this beautiful country, you should plan your trip in detail. If not, you most certainly will miss out on some of the best places to be and things to see.

Japan: Cities, Sights & Other Places You Need to Visit: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Kawasaki, Saitama, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 13 mins)
• By Writing Soul's Travel Guides
• Narrated By J D Kelly
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Japan has an enthralling and versatile culture; on the one hand, it is sharp in the traditions dating back thousands of years; on the other, it is a civilization in a continual state of rapid change, with constantly shifting fads, fashions, and technological progress that continuously pushes back the limits of the possible. This is part of what makes it such a mesmerizing country to visit.

India: Cities, Sights & Other Places You Need to Visit

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 18 mins)
• By Writing Souls' Travel Guides
• Narrated By Chiquito Joaquim Crasto

India is one of the oldest places to inhabit civilization, with a history dating back thousands of years. Since time immemorial, people have visited this country for various reasons - to work, shelter, tourism, spiritual upliftment, and the like. India is surrounded by the great Himalayas in the north, Arabian Sea on the west, Indian Ocean in the south and the Bay of Bengal in the east. India is a very diverse country in terms of people, climate, locales, languages, customs, cuisines, cultures, and beliefs.

Australia: Cities, Sights & Other Places You Need To Visit

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 17 mins)
• By Writing Souls' Travel Guides
• Narrated By Kevin Rineer
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Australia offers the most adventurous water sports on its beautiful beaches, to invite people from around the world. It also offers a sneak peek into the traditional cultures and lifestyle that prevailed here for ages. Australia has a multicultural history, and the people who have come and settled here brought colorful traditions and influence. In the past few years, the Australian cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, along with the other cities, have seen a sharp increase in the number of the foreign tourists.

Basilica of Santa Maria della Roccella Borgia Italy (ENG)

• UNABRIDGED (13 mins)
• By Caterina Amato
• Narrated By Karolina Starin

The vocal beauty of this church has been heard through the centuries and also through the descriptions of the many travelers who visited these places, which represented one of the stages of the Grand Tour (an integral part of the aristocratic education in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries). Borgia, like Scolacium, was under Byzantine rule, in the tenth, eleventh and fifteenth centuries.

Spain: The 30 Best Tips for Your Trip to Spain

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 9 mins)
• By Traveling The World
• Narrated By Lily Doiron
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Spain is a very beautiful country. Over the years, it has been populated from various empirical civilizations and religious movements. Much of the Spanish culture has been created from this mix, which can be seen in their sports, music, architecture, arts, food, and music. If this is your first time in Spain, you should plan your trip in detail. If not, you most certainly will miss out on some of the best places to be at and things to see. This audiobook will help you to make the most out of your time in Spain. You will get to know the most fascinating things to do and see.