Showing results by publisher "Penguin Audio" in Travel Writing & Commentary
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Abroad in Japan
- By: Chris Broad
- Narrated by: Chris Broad
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most mysterious and impenetrable cultures.
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Life is balloons
- By Anonymous on 14-11-2025
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Abroad in Japan
- Narrated by: Chris Broad
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2023
- Language: English
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Icons of England
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Barnaby Edwards, Ben Eagle, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic...
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Perhaps if you’d grown up in UK it’d be ok.
- By Chris Pedder on 13-10-2020
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Icons of England
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Barnaby Edwards, Ben Eagle, Terence Wilton, Sara Poyzer, Homer Todiwala, Leda Hodgson, Sara Novak
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-09-2020
- Language: English
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Into Iraq
- By: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. It was a journey of sharp, often brutal contrasts. At one moment he would be exploring the old streets of Baghdad or the ancient ruins of Babylon. At the next he would be visiting the war-torn city of Mosul, or learning about the horrific Speicher massacre in Tikrit.
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Image no countries and borders
- By sue on 09-01-2023
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Into Iraq
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2022
- Language: English
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Touching The Void
- By: Joe Simpson
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance182
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Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell...
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A really slow start
- By Walker on 24-03-2019
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Touching The Void
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2012
- Language: English
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One Man and His Bike
- By: Mike Carter
- Narrated by: Mike Carter
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000-mile ride around the entire British coastline—the equivalent of London to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people building for a different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable kindness and generosity that convinced him that Britain is anything but broken.
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A fun ride
- By Drew on 02-06-2025
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One Man and His Bike
- Narrated by: Mike Carter
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-09-2022
- Language: English
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Geldof in Africa
- By: Bob Geldof
- Narrated by: Bob Geldof
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa.
Over 20 years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returns to what he calls the Luminous Continent. This is his personal diary. Unflinchingly honest, Geldof in Africa paints a unique picture of this extraordinary and beautiful land.
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Geldof in Africa
- Narrated by: Bob Geldof
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-07-2011
- Language: English
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Surviving Ireland
- By: Colm Tobin
- Narrated by: Colm Tobin
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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It's exhausting being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the postcolonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world? In Surviving Ireland, acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin takes the listener by the hand for a satirical romp through modern Irish life.
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Surviving Ireland
- Narrated by: Colm Tobin
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2015
- Language: English
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A Walk from the Wild Edge
- By: Jake Tyler
- Narrated by: Jake Tyler
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his life from the clutches of depression. With only a pair of walking boots and a backpack, he left his home town of Maldon and began a 3,000-mile walk around the British mainland. In documenting every step of his adventure, Jake shares the ways in which his road to recovery was enhanced by the kindness of strangers, who helped him to better understand himself and the power of human connection.
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A Walk from the Wild Edge
- Narrated by: Jake Tyler
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2021
- Language: English
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Water, Wood, and Wild Things
- Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town
- By: Hannah Kirshner
- Narrated by: Hannah Kirshner
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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"With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life." --Maira Kalman An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is...
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Authentic Japanese crafts journey in a rural area.
- By Ingrid Wimbury on 01-04-2022
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Water, Wood, and Wild Things
- Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town
- Narrated by: Hannah Kirshner
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2021
- Language: English
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Dave Gorman Vs The Rest of the World
- By: Dave Gorman
- Narrated by: Dave Gorman
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Remember when you were a kid, and you used to go round to a friend's house to see if they were playing? Well, as adults we're not supposed to do that. Which is a shame... because Dave Gorman likes playing. He REALLY likes games. So he knocked on the biggest door you could ever imagine - the internet - and asked 76,000 people if they fancied a game. This is the story of what happened next.
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Dave Gorman Vs The Rest of the World
- Narrated by: Dave Gorman
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2011
- Language: English
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A to Z of Hell
- Ross Kemp’s How Not to Travel the World
- By: Ross Kemp
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Ross Kemp's fascinating guide to the worst places in the world. Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia or one of the world’s beautiful natural wonders in the Alps? Well this is NOT the book for you. But if you want to know about meeting transvestite prostitutes in a South African prison or being attacked for a can of tuna in the Congo, buying crack cocaine in a Venezuelan prison or being chased by dogs in a haunted house in Belize, then look no further.
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A to Z of Hell
- Ross Kemp’s How Not to Travel the World
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Solace of Open Spaces
- By: Gretel Ehrlich
- Narrated by: Gretel Ehrlich
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced “Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of...
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The Solace of Open Spaces
- Narrated by: Gretel Ehrlich
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-01-2021
- Language: English
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Pies and Prejudice
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.
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Home
- By Amazon Customer on 14-09-2020
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Pies and Prejudice
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-02-2009
- Language: English
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Pathless Forest
- The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers
- By: Dr Chris Thorogood
- Narrated by: Sebastian Humphreys
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers. Today he is a botanist at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden and has dedicated his life to studying the biology of such extraordinary plants, working alongside botanists and foresters in Southeast Asia to document these huge, mysterious blooms. Pathless Forest is the story of his journey to study and protect this remarkable plant - a biological enigma, still little understood, which invades vines as a leafless parasite and steals its food from them.
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Pathless Forest
- The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers
- Narrated by: Sebastian Humphreys
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2024
- Language: English
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Train Lord
- The Astonishing True Story of One Man's Journey to Getting His Life Back on Track
- By: Oliver Mol
- Narrated by: Oliver Mol
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Oliver Mol was a successful, clever, healthy twenty-five-year old. Then one day the migraine started. For ten months, the pain was constant, exacerbated by writing, reading, using computers, looking at phones or anything with a screen. Slowly he became a writer who no longer wrote, and a person who could no longer could communicate with the modern world. In literature, and life, Oliver began to disappear. His doctors can't figure out how to fix him. He suffers a breakdown. One evening, high on pain killers, Oliver Googles the only thing he can think of.
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With Heart
- By Anonymous on 13-01-2023
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Train Lord
- The Astonishing True Story of One Man's Journey to Getting His Life Back on Track
- Narrated by: Oliver Mol
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 21-07-2022
- Language: English
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Run Britain
- My World Record-Breaking Adventure to Run Every Mile of the British Coastline
- By: Nick Butter
- Narrated by: Nick Butter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2021, as the UK's latest pandemic lockdowns were lifted, Nick Butter set out from the Eden Project to become the fastest person to cover every mile of Britain's mainland coastline on foot. Battling the most extreme winds Britain had seen in 100 years, days of torrential rain and the unrelenting hills of Western Scotland and Cornwall, Nick suffered two broken bones and countless injuries, whilst taking on two marathons a day, every day, for 100 days.
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Run Britain
- My World Record-Breaking Adventure to Run Every Mile of the British Coastline
- Narrated by: Nick Butter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2023
- Language: English
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Hope and Glory
- The Days That Made Britain
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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In Hope and Glory, Stuart goes in search of the places, people and events of the century we have just left behind that have shaped the look and character of modern Britain. From the death of Victoria to the demise of New Labour, he takes a single event from each decade of the 20th century that offers up a defining moment in our history and then goes in search of its legacy today.
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Hope and Glory
- The Days That Made Britain
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2011
- Language: English
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I Left My Tent in San Francisco
- By: Emma Kennedy
- Narrated by: Emma Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend, Dee, head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's. Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape to scrape, surviving on their wits and the kindness of strangers. Bad luck and misfortune throw everything their way - snakes, earthquakes, black magic and incontinent dogs.
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Narration far too soft or screaming too loudly
- By MEW on 12-10-2023
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I Left My Tent in San Francisco
- Narrated by: Emma Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 25-06-2015
- Language: English
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The Apprentice Tourist
- By: Mário de Andrade, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux - translator, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: André Santana, Elsa Lepecki Bean
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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A Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate’s misadventures in the Amazon A Penguin Classic “My life’s done a somersault,” wrote Mário de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming...
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The Apprentice Tourist
- Narrated by: André Santana, Elsa Lepecki Bean
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2023
- Language: English
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A Piano in the Pyrenees
- By: Tony Hawks
- Narrated by: Tony Hawks
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Inspired by breathtaking views and romantically dreaming of finding love in the mountains, Tony Hawks impulsively buys a house in the French Pyrenees. Here, he imagines, he will finally fulfil his childhood fantasy of mastering the piano, untroubled by the problems of the world.
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A Piano in the Pyrenees
- Narrated by: Tony Hawks
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2006
- Language: English
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