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River Town
- Two Years on the Yangtze
- By: Peter Hessler
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance40
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In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident.
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Absorbing book ruined by narrator
- By Pete Millwood on 13-06-12
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River Town
- Two Years on the Yangtze
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-05-10
- Language: English
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Mirror to Damascus
- By: Colin Thubron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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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.
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Decent
- By Alex on 12-12-17
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Mirror to Damascus
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-09-17
- Language: English
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On the Wind Sailing
- By: 59º North Sailing Podcasts
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The definitive podcast about sailing. Professional sailors Andy Schell, Mia Karlsson and August Sandberg interview sailors from around the world to discover what motivates, scares & inspires them. For over twelve years and through 490+ episodes, our hosts have interviewed sailors like Dee Caffari, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Liz Clark, John Kretschmer, Kirsten Neuschafer, Nigel Calder, Pip Hare & many, many more. We talk to boat builders, yacht designers, YouTube stars, performance racers, and family cruisers. HOLD FAST!
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The original & the best sailing podcast
- By Ian HJ on 04-11-21
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Sailing Alone Around the World
- By: Joshua Slocum
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance14
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Story15
Joshua Slocum was believed to be the first man to sail single-handed around the world. After a distinguished career, where he worked his way up from cabin boy to captain, Joshua Slocum wrecked his ship off the coast of Brazil. Turning this catastrophe to his advantage, he built a sailing canoe from the wreckage and sailed back to New York. Moreover, he wrote Voyage of the Liberdad, a chronicle of his trip, and earned some literary success.
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What A Lovely Book
- By Willy T on 06-06-24
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Sailing Alone Around the World
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-12-04
- Language: English
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Terra Incognita
- By: Sara Wheeler
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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Sara Wheeler visited Antarctica as a guest of America's National Science Foundation and soon after her arrival fell in love with the frozen landscape and it's harsh beauty. During her seven month stay the author travelled to the various national sectors, visited several national bases and experienced four seasons. The author has a reverence for the early explorer and visits many historic landmarks in her journey across Antartica.
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Fabulous book, deep and hilarious all at the same time
- By ladybird123 on 02-06-15
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Terra Incognita
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-12-11
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
- By: Colin Thubron
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance89
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Story88
Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across Northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road. Travelling 7,000 miles in eight months, he traces the passage not only of trade and armies, but of ideas, religions and inventions.
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Another world
- By Peter on 14-10-07
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Shadow of the Silk Road
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-08-07
- Language: English
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You Deserve Good Gelato
- Reasons to Travel the World, Embrace Failure, and Do the Sh*t That Scares You
- By: Kacie Rose
- Narrated by: Kacie Rose
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance18
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In her inimitably funny and feel-good way, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad in You Deserve Good Gelato, covering everything from travel fails and homesickness to the joy of culture shocks and the power of doing the s*** that scares you. Because life is too short not to.
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Motivating, warm and interesting!!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-06-24
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You Deserve Good Gelato
- Reasons to Travel the World, Embrace Failure, and Do the Sh*t That Scares You
- Narrated by: Kacie Rose
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 28-05-24
- Language: English
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Long Way Down
- By: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman
- Narrated by: Mark Bonnar, Rupert Degas
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall126
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Performance88
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Story90
After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to go back and experience this extraordinary continent in more depth.
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A light boys book - but an annoying voice
- By Stephen on 06-06-08
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Long Way Down
- Narrated by: Mark Bonnar, Rupert Degas
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-11-07
- Language: English
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Love From Venice
- A golden summer on the Grand Canal
- By: Gill Johnson
- Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance19
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A charming, funny and glamorous memoir and love-story, about a summer in 1957 in Venice, working for an aristocratic Italian family. In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her...
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An Enchanting Memoir
- By gmb on 31-01-24
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Love From Venice
- A golden summer on the Grand Canal
- Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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Cockpit Confidential
- Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
- By: Patrick Smith
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance62
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Story62
For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular "Ask the Pilot" feature, separates fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know....
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It was all going so well…
- By Mr A D Boughton on 15-11-23
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Cockpit Confidential
- Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 23-02-16
- Language: English
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
- Reflections on Then and Now
- By: Peter Mayle
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance75
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From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible...
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narration
- By Lyn D on 29-12-19
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
- Reflections on Then and Now
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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The Edges of the World
- At the margins of life, lands and history
- By: Charles Foster
- Narrated by: Charles Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2
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Brought to you by Penguin. We tend to think that everything important comes from the centre: from big cities, from established orthodoxies in the sciences and the arts, from the Establishment in all its forms. We think this because the centre tells us it is so, but it's a lie. It is only at the...
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The Edges of the World
- At the margins of life, lands and history
- Narrated by: Charles Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 22-01-26
- Language: English
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Hidden Japan
- An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests
- By: Alex Kerr
- Narrated by: Alex Kerr
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In Hidden Japan, acclaimed author and environmentalist Alex Kerr leads us to the country's most secluded and enchanting corners—places where time seems to stand still and traditional culture endures. From thatched-roof villages in misty mountains to volcanic islands few have ever visited, Kerr's lyrical prose, narrated by the author himself, is brought to life in this immersive audio experience.
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Hidden Japan
- An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests
- Narrated by: Alex Kerr
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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All the Wide Border
- Wales, England and the Places Between
- By: Mike Parker
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England–Wales border: Britain’s deepest faultline. There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; on the other England...
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Politically motivated and condescending
- By Ben Llewellyn on 18-09-24
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All the Wide Border
- Wales, England and the Places Between
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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Un indovino mi disse
- By: Tiziano Terzani
- Narrated by: Edoardo Siravo
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance19
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Nella primavera del 1976, a Hong Kong, un vecchio indovino cinese avverte l'autore di questo libro: "Attento! Nel 1993 corri un gran rischio di morire. In quell'anno non volare. Non volare mai". Dopo tanti anni Terzani non dimentica la profezia (che a suo modo si avvera...), ma anzi la trasforma in un'occasione per guardare al mondo con occhi nuovi: decide infatti di non prendere aerei per un anno, senza tuttavia rinunciare al suo mestiere di corrispondente.
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Viaggio bellissimo, difetti inclusi
- By Stefano Crocco on 26-04-21
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Un indovino mi disse
- Narrated by: Edoardo Siravo
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 21-12-18
- Language: Italian
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
- By: Lawrence Durrell
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Overall86
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Performance72
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Lawrence Durrell's evocative memoir of living in Cyprus, just before the Greek/Turkish partition. This is a touching and atmospheric account of a place, now changed, where the two races lived side by side.
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Abridged and then some
- By Sam Roebuck on 04-08-16
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-05-07
- Language: English
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A Carpet Ride to Khiva
- Seven Years on the Silk Road
- By: Chris Aslan, Christopher Alexander
- Narrated by: Dylan Thomas
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva — a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan — immensely alluring, and stayed.
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A Carpet Ride to Khiva
- Seven Years on the Silk Road
- Narrated by: Dylan Thomas
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 22-09-25
- Language: English
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Love Scotland: Stories of Scotland's History and Nature
- By: National Trust for Scotland
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Love Scotland is a fortnightly podcast series from the National Trust for Scotland. Hosted by TV star, expert broadcaster and National Trust for Scotland president Jackie Bird, Love Scotland features big names, experts and enthusiasts from all walks of life. Each episode delves deep into the detail of Scotland’s history, its wildlife and its landscapes.
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I Left My Tent in San Francisco
- By: Emma Kennedy
- Narrated by: Emma Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall250
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Performance230
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Story227
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...
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enjoyable
- By Helen on 12-07-15
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I Left My Tent in San Francisco
- Narrated by: Emma Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 25-06-15
- Language: English
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Divided
- A Walk on the Continental Divide Trail
- By: Brian Cornell
- Narrated by: Zac Katz-Stein
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Once a person hikes a long trail, they catch the bug, but does it get any easier the second time around? Four years after starting the Appalachian Trail with his brother, Brian takes to the Continental Divide Trail for his second thru-hike in familiar company. However, trail life is not always as rewarding and romantic as the pictures you see or second-hand stories you hear.
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Deeply shallow philosophical reflections.
- By Mim Thorpe on 13-09-23
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Divided
- A Walk on the Continental Divide Trail
- Narrated by: Zac Katz-Stein
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 23-09-21
- Language: English
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