Top Travel & Tourism Audiobooks

A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich, complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe....

Following her best-selling memoir, Thirst, here is the next step in Heather “Anish” Anderson’s adventurous life journey - one of deep emotion and self-discovery....

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

Upon retirement at the age of 62, and grieving his deceased wife, renowned journalist Bernard Ollivier felt a sense of profound emptiness: He longed for more. Searching for inspiration, he strapped on his gear, donned his hat, and headed out the front door to hike the Way of St. James....

In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and their five children pulled up stakes in the lower 48 and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. They survived on the strength of Norma Cobb. Arctic Homestead is her story....

In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new one with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded, and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of most foreigners during early encounters with Africa....

The wealth of valuable data and advice in this volume - much of it unavailable elsewhere - makes it indispensable for hikers, bikers, scouts, sailors, and outdoorsmen - all those who might find themselves stranded or lost in an unfamiliar area.....

This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles from Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed....

Naturalist Joe Hutto’s latest adventures in wildlife observation take him to Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains....

In the wilderness, one false step can make the difference between a delightful respite and a brush with death....

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators....

Livingstone's first book revolutionized the way European readers saw Africa and made him a hero in England....

Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing rather than left-wing....

In 2006, Kit DesLauriers made history by becoming the first person to climb - and then ski - from the summit of each continent's highest mountain, the famed Seven Summits....

By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking. In her new memoir, Heather shares her distinct message of courage - her willingness to turn away from the predictability of a more traditional life in an effort to seek out what most fulfills her....

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....

The Amish, one of America’s most intriguingly private, unique, and often misunderstood religious communities, have survived for 300 years! How has that happened....

Laced with compelling writing about French food and its ways, Breakfast in Burgundy is part travel memoir, part foodie detective story, and part love song to Raymond's adopted home....