29 Best Travel Books
Travel is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Travel audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Travel audiobooks below.
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Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail
- By: Deborah D. Douglas
- Narrator: Deborah D. Douglas
- Length: 17 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 09, 2021
- Language: English
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4.91(21 ratings)
4.91(21 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0038.99 USDThe U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America’s fight for freedom. From witnessing eye-opening landmarks to celebrating triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. CivilThe U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America’s fight for freedom. From witnessing eye-opening landmarks to celebrating triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail.
- Flexible Itineraries: Travel the entire trail through the South, or take shorter trips with chapters on Charleston, Birmingham, Jackson, Memphis, Washington DC, and more places that were significant to the Civil Rights Movement
- Historic Civil Rights Sites: Learn about Dr. King’s legacy at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, be transformed at the small but mighty Emmett Till Intrepid Center, and stand tall with Little Rock Nine at their memorial in Arkansas
- The Culture of the Movement: Get to know the voices, stories, music, and flavors that shape and celebrate Black America both then and now
- Expert Insight: Award-winning journalist Deborah Douglas offers her valuable perspective and knowledge, as well as suggestions for engaging with local communities by patronizing Black-owned businesses and seeking out activist groups
- Travel Tools: Find tips on where to stay, where to eat, the best local nightlife, and more, plus driving directions for exploring the sites on a road trip, with full-color photos and maps throughout
- Detailed coverage of: Charleston, Atlanta, Selma to Montgomery, Birmingham, Jackson, the Mississippi Delta, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Raleigh, Durham, Virginia, and Washington DC
- Foreword by Bree Newsome Bass: activist, filmmaker, and artist
Journey through history, understand struggles past and present, and get inspired to create a better future with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail.
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The Last Overland
- By: Alex Bescoby
- Narrator: Alex Bescoby
- Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 11, 2022
- Language: English
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4.52(21 ratings)
4.52(21 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USD“In 1955, a young TV producer named David Attenborough was approached by six recent graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities determined to drive the entire length of Eurasia, as it was then known, from London to Singapore. Many tried“In 1955, a young TV producer named David Attenborough was approached by six recent graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities determined to drive the entire length of Eurasia, as it was then known, from London to Singapore. Many tried this before, but none succeeded. Sensing this time might be different, Attenborough gave The Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition enough film reels to cover their attempt. The 19,000-mile journey completed by Tim Slessor and the team was told in Attenborough’s Travellers’ Tales and captivated a nation emerging from postwar austerity. Tim’s book, The First Overland, was published shortly after and soon became the Bible of the overlanding religion. Inspired by Attenborough’s comment fifty years on that it was a journey “”that I don’t think could be made again today,”” Alex made contact with now eighty-six-year-old Tim, and together they planned an epic recreation of the original trip, this time from Singapore to London. With their improbable team and the prospect of getting the original Oxford, their goal was to complete the heroic journey that started more than sixty years earlier. In awe of the unstoppable Tim, and haunted by his own grandfather’s deterioration due to tragedy and then dementia, Alex soon finds himself on the defining trip of his life and discovers how the world has changed for better, and for worse, since the First Overland…”
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Will’s Red Coat
- By: Tom Ryan
- Narrator: Tom Ryan
- Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 25, 2017
- Language: English
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4.46(830 ratings)
4.46(830 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus. Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, andA true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus.
Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, and mostly blind elderly dog, and brought him home to live with him and Atticus. The only owners Will ever knew had grown too fragile to take care of themselves, or of him. Ultimately, Will was left at a kill shelter in New Jersey.
Tom hoped to give Will a place to die with dignity, amid the rustic beauty of the White Mountains of his New Hampshire home. But when Will bites him numerous times and acts out in violent displays, Tom realizes he is in for a challenge.
With endless patience and the kind of continued empathy Tom has nurtured in his relationship with Atticus, Will eventually begins to thrive. Soon, the angry, hurt, depressed, and near-death oldster has transformed into a happy, gamboling companion with a puppy-like zest for discovery. Will perseveres for two and a half years, inspiring hundreds of thousands of Tom and Atticus’s fans with his courage, resilience, and unforgettable heart.
A story of a dog and an indelible bond that is beautiful, heartbreaking, uplifting, and unforgettable, Will’s Red Coat honors the promise held in every living creature, at any stage of life.
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Local Wonders
- By: Ted Kooser
- Narrator: Ted Kooser
- Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.35(528 ratings)
4.35(528 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDTed Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska, an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention, including memories of hisTed Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska, an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention, including memories of his grandmother’s cooking. Kooser also reminds us that the closing of local schools, thoughtless county weed control, and irresponsible housing development destroy more than just the view.
What makes life meaningful for Kooser are the ways in which his neighbors care for one another and how an afternoon walking with an old dog, baking a pie, or decorating the house for Christmas can summon memories of his Iowa childhood.
This writer sees the extraordinary within the ordinary, the deep beneath the shallow, and the abiding wisdom in the pithy Bohemian proverbs that are woven into his essays.
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Back Over There
- By: Richard Rubin
- Narrator: Richard Rubin
- Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 04, 2017
- Language: English
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4.34(144 ratings)
4.34(144 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDBased on Richard Rubin’s wildly popular New York Times series, Back Over There is a timely journey, in turns reverent and iconoclastic but always fascinating, through a place where the past and present are never really separated.In The Last ofBased on Richard Rubin’s wildly popular New York Times series, Back Over There is a timely journey, in turns reverent and iconoclastic but always fascinating, through a place where the past and present are never really separated.
In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. Interviewing the war’s last survivors face-to-face, he knew well the importance of being present if you want to get the real story. But he soon came to realize that to get the whole story, he had to go Over There, too. So he did, and discovered that while most Americans regard that war as dead and gone, to the French, who still live among its ruins and memories, it remains very much alive.Years later, with the centennial of the war only magnifying this paradox, Rubin decided to go back Over There to see if he could, at last, resolve it. For months he followed the trail of the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front, finding trenches, tunnels, bunkers, century-old graffiti and ubiquitous artifacts. But he also found an abiding fondness for America and Americans, and a colorful corps of local after-hours historians and archeologists who tirelessly explore these sites and preserve the memories they embody while patiently waiting for Americans to return and reclaim their own history and heritage. None of whom seemed to mind that his French needed work.
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Around the World in 60 Seconds
- By: Nuseir Yassin
- Narrator: Nuseir Yassin
- Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 05, 2019
- Language: English
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4.3(236 ratings)
4.3(236 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USD60 seconds. That’s how long it takes to dispel stereotypes in Mexico. Throw a house party for strangers in Israel. Change perspectives in Nebraska. Make friends in Japan. And connect millions of people all over the world. In 2016, Nuseir60 seconds.
That’s how long it takes to dispel stereotypes in Mexico. Throw a house party for strangers in Israel. Change perspectives in Nebraska. Make friends in Japan. And connect millions of people all over the world.
In 2016, Nuseir Yassin quit his job to travel for 1,000 consecutive days. But instead of the usual tourist traps, Nas set out to meet real people, see the places they call home, and discover what unites all of us living on this beautiful planet–from villages in Africa and slums in India, to the high-rises of Singapore and the deserts of Australia. While he journeyed from country to country, Nas uploaded a single 60-second video per day for his Nas Daily Facebook following to highlight the amazing, terrifying, inspiring and downright surprising sh*t happening all over the world. Thirteen million followers later, Nas Daily has become the most immersive travel experience ever captured, and finally shows us what we’ve all been looking for: each other.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 60 SECONDS is Nas’ surprising, moving, and totally unpredictable 1,000-day world tour in book form. At times a striking portrait of the most uncharted places in the world, at others a touching exploration of the human heart, this collection of life-affirming stories changes how we think about humanity and invites us all on a journey to see the world, and each other, anew.
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The Secret Knowledge of Water
- By: Craig Childs
- Narrator: Craig Childs
- Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 07, 2019
- Language: English
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4.29(2160 ratings)
4.29(2160 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDNaturalist Craig Childs’s “utterly memorable and fantastic” study of the desert’s dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post). Like the highest mountain peaks,Naturalist Craig Childs’s “utterly memorable and fantastic” study of the desert’s dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post).
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Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the deserts of the American West as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor in natural history, has developed a keen appreciation for these forbidding landscapes: their beauty, their wonder, and especially their paradoxes. His extraordinary treks through arid lands in search of water are an astonishing revelation of the natural world at its most extreme.
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Menno Moto
- By: Cameron Dueck
- Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 28, 2020
- Language: English
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4.28(94 ratings)
4.28(94 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDAcross Latin America, from the plains of Mexico to the jungles of Paraguay, live a cloistered Germanic people. For nearly a century, they have kept their doors and their minds closed, separating their communities from a secular world they view asAcross Latin America, from the plains of Mexico to the jungles of Paraguay, live a cloistered Germanic people. For nearly a century, they have kept their doors and their minds closed, separating their communities from a secular world they view as sinful.
The story of their search for religious and social independence began generations ago in Europe and led them, in the late 1800s, to Canada, where they enjoyed the freedoms they sought under the protection of a nascent government. Yet in the 1920s, when the country many still consider their motherland began to take shape as a nation and their separatism came under scrutiny, groups of Mennonites left for the promises of Latin America: unbroken land and new guarantees of freedom to create autonomous, ethnically pure colonies. There they live as if time stands still?an isolation with dark consequences.
In this memoir of an eight-month, 45,000 kilometre motorcycle journey across the Americas, Mennonite writer Cameron Dueck searches for common ground within his cultural diaspora. From skirmishes with secular neighbours over water rights in Mexico, to a mass-rape scandal in Bolivia, to the Green Hell of Paraguay and the wheat fields of Argentina, Dueck follows his ancestors south, finding reasons to both love and loathe his culture?and, in the process, finding himself.
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The King of Sting
- By: Coyote Peterson
- Narrator: Coyote Peterson
- Length: 3 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 02, 2019
- Language: English
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4.27(115 ratings)
4.27(115 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.98 USDWildlife expert and Emmy Award-winning Coyote Peterson brings his 12.5 million YouTube subscribers and legions of kid fans a full-color exploration of his “Sting Zone” adventure series, featuring shots from the episodes and culminatingWildlife expert and Emmy Award-winning Coyote Peterson brings his 12.5 million YouTube subscribers and legions of kid fans a full-color exploration of his “Sting Zone” adventure series, featuring shots from the episodes and culminating in his thrilling encounter with the “King of Sting”–the Executioner Wasp.
Coyote Peterson, YouTube star, animal enthusiast, and creator of the Brave Adventure series, has tracked down some of the world’s most painfully stinging insects and chronicled getting stung by each of them on his YouTube channel. Coyote has saved the best–or possibly the worst–for last, and he’s finally ready to share his experience with the most painful sting in the world: the Executioner Wasp. Featuring full-color stills from his show, and packed with facts about nature’s most misunderstood creatures, King of Sting is a dream book for any kid that loves animals, bugs, outdoor exploration, and danger!
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Hidden Mountains
- By: Michael Wejchert
- Narrator: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 17, 2023
- Language: English
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4.26(25 ratings)
4.26(25 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible rescue attempt that followed, and the fraught cost of survival In 2018, two couples set out on a climbing expedition to Alaska’s Hidden Mountains,The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible rescue attempt that followed, and the fraught cost of survival
In 2018, two couples set out on a climbing expedition to Alaska’s Hidden Mountains, one of the last wild ranges in North America. A rarity in modern climbing, the peaks were nearly unexplored and untouched, a place where few people had ever visited and granite spires still awaited first ascents. Inspired by generations of daring alpinists before them, the four climbers were now compelled to strike out into uncharted territory themselves.
This trip to the Hidden Mountains would be the culmination of years of climbing together, promising to test the foursome’s skill and dedication to the sport. But as the climbers would soon discover, no amount of preparation can account for the unknowns of true wilderness. As they neared the top of an unclimbed peak, rockfall grievously injured one of the climbers while he was out of sight, leaving him stranded and in critical condition.
Over the course of the next nine hours, the other three climbers worked to reach their companion. What followed was a pulse-pounding rescue attempt by Alaska’s elite Pararescuers in one of the most remote regions in the country–raising difficult questions about wilderness accessibility, technology’s role in outdoor adventure, and what it means to weigh risk against the siren song of the mountains.
With visceral prose, Michael Wejchert recounts the group’s rescue and traces the scars left in the wake of life-altering trauma. Weaving the history and evolution of rock and alpine climbing with outside tales of loss and survival in the mountains, Wejchert gives a full picture of the reward–and cost–of following your passions in the outdoors.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Little Princes
- By: Conor Grennan
- Narrator: Conor Grennan
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 25, 2011
- Language: English
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4.25(19672 ratings)
4.25(19672 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land–and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”–Neil White,“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land–and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”
–Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of OutcastsLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan’s remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.
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Words from the Window Seat
- By: Taylor Tippett
- Narrator: Taylor Tippett
- Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: October 12, 2021
- Language: English
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4.23(375 ratings)
4.23(375 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDFlight attendant Taylor Tippett had just finished beverage service and was sitting in the back of a Boeing 737 when she had a revelation: How can I show kindness to these passengers if I can’t show it to myself? She grabbed a tiny notepad andFlight attendant Taylor Tippett had just finished beverage service and was sitting in the back of a Boeing 737 when she had a revelation: How can I show kindness to these passengers if I can’t show it to myself? She grabbed a tiny notepad and a Sharpie and wrote a simple message that would change her life: “Be kind to yourself.”
Before she had time to think about it, Taylor taped the note to a window, posted a picture, and then left the slip of paper in a seat-back pocket for someone on the next flight to find. What started as a personal project to encourage herself and others soon became a viral sensation.
In Words from the Window Seat, Taylor shares stories of her travels, daily life, and interactions with people of all kinds, anchoring each chapter around a note she’s left for a stranger to find. As she takes you from Chicago to Paris to Barcelona on planes, trains, and even a skateboard, you’ll:
- Learn how to embody love through little acts of kindness
- Discover the small moments of magic in the everyday
- Find ways to embrace your authentic self
With charm, inspiration, and plenty of whimsy, Taylor reminds us that even in a weary world, it’s possible to celebrate the beauty in each person’s unique story–and make an impact that goes deeper than you’ll ever know.
Praise for Words from the Window Seat:
“These pages will empower you to explore the many opportunities we have each day to encounter light and share love with others while traveling. Whether traveling by air or traveling through life. This book is an encouragement to be present in the everyday, no matter what comes your way.”
–Morgan Harper Nichols, bestselling author of All Along You Were Blooming
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All the Agents and Saints
- By: Stephanie Elizondo Griest
- Narrator: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.21(143 ratings)
4.21(143 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDAfter a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home–only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drugAfter a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home–only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence.
Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation’s foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way. The frequency of these tragedies seemed like a terrible coincidence, before Elizondo Griest moved to the New York-Canada borderlands.
Once she began to meet Mohawks from the Akwesasne Nation, however, she recognized striking parallels to life on the southern border. Having lost their land through devious treaties, their mother tongues at English-only schools, and their traditional occupations through capitalist ventures, Tejanos and Mohawks alike struggle under the legacy of colonialism. Toxic industries surround their neighborhoods while the US Border Patrol militarizes them. Combating these forces are legions of artists and activists devoted to preserving their indigenous cultures. Complex belief systems, meanwhile, conjure miracles. In All the Agents and Saints, Elizondo Griest weaves seven years of stories into a meditation on the existential impact of international borderlines by illuminating the spaces in between and the people who live there.
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Walking The Himalayas
- By: Levison Wood
- Narrator: Levison Wood
- Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 24, 2016
- Language: English
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4.18(1700 ratings)
4.18(1700 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDFollowing his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain range. Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison WoodFollowing his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain range.... Read morePraised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called “the toughest man on TV” (The Times UK). Now, following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Levison recounts the beauty and danger he found along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan, the Line of Control between Pakistan and India, the disputed territories of Kashmir and the earth-quake ravaged lands of Nepal.
Over the course of six months, Wood and his trusted guides trek 1,700 gruelling miles across the roof of the world. Packed with action and emotion, Walking the Himalayas is the story of one intrepid man’s travels in a world poised on the edge of tremendous change.
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The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World, 3rd Edition
- By: Susan Veness
- Narrator: Andrea Emmes
- Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.18(72 ratings)
4.18(72 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe latest edition to the successful Hidden Magic series features updated information on the latest attractions at Walt Disney World, including Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway! Whether it’s yourThe latest edition to the successful Hidden Magic series features updated information on the latest attractions at Walt Disney World, including Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway!
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Whether it’s your first or fiftieth visit to Walt Disney World, you’ll be surprised at how much you can miss during your trip. But with this guide to Disney’s hidden treasures you’ll learn:
-You can search for more than the usual hidden Mickey. There are other beloved characters like Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse hidden around the parks.
-The book Belle reads in Beauty and the Beast is a real book…and you can find out what it is by heading to Maurice’s cottage.
-Imagineers hide symbols of themselves around the park to “sign” their work.
Including all-new information on Toy Story Land, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway, The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World, 3rd Edition will inspire you to relive the magic year after year! -
Nowhere for Very Long
- By: Brianna Madia
- Narrator: Brianna Madia
- Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.17(5138 ratings)
4.17(5138 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDNarrated by Brianna Madia In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach toNarrated by Brianna Madia
In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life
A woman defined by motion, Brianna Madia bought a beat-up bright orange van, filled it with her two dogs Bucket and Dagwood, and headed into the canyons of Utah with her husband. Nowhere for Very Long is her deeply felt, immaculately told story of exploration–of the world outside and the spirit within.
However, pursuing a life of intention isn’t always what it seems. In fact, at times it was downright boring, exhausting, and even desperate–when Bertha overheated and she was forced to pull over on a lonely stretch of South Dakota highway; when the weather was bitterly cold and her water jugs froze beneath her as she slept in the parking lot of her office; when she worried about money, her marriage, and the looming question mark of her future. But Brianna was committed to living a life true to herself, come what may, and that made all the difference.
Nowhere for Very Long is the true story of a woman learning and unlearning, from backroads to breakdowns, from married to solo, and finally, from lost to found to lost again . . . this time, on purpose.
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Living the RV Life
- By: Marc Bennett
- Narrator: Coralie Bywater
- Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.16(116 ratings)
4.16(116 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhether you’re downsizing or thrill-seeking–or anything in between–find out if the RV lifestyle is right for you, and learn how to transition from a life of traditional home-ownership to one on the road. Do you love traveling?Whether you’re downsizing or thrill-seeking–or anything in between–find out if the RV lifestyle is right for you, and learn how to transition from a life of traditional home-ownership to one on the road.
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Do you love traveling? Meeting new people and seeing new places? Are you craving a life that feels meaningful and new? The RV lifestyle could be the answer.
Both aspirational and practical, Living the RV Life is your ultimate guide to living life on the road–for people of all ages looking to downsize, travel, or work on the go. Learn if life in a motor home is right for you, with insightful details on the experiences of full-time RV-ers, tips for how to choose an RV (how big? new or used?), whether to sell your home (and if not, what to do with it), model costs, sample routes and destinations, basic vehicle maintenance, legal and government considerations–and much more! Written in a light and an easy-to-understand style, Living the RV Life is your bible to living a mobile life. -
Over the Edge of the World
- By: Laurence Bergreen
- Narrator: Laurence Bergreen
- Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 27, 2004
- Language: English
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4.15(13270 ratings)
4.15(13270 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDA majestic tale of discovery thatchanged many long-held views about the world In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-afterA majestic tale of discovery thatchanged many long-held views about the world
In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities — cloves, pepper, and nutmeg — flourished. Three years later, a handful of survivors returned with an abundance of spices from their intended destination, but with just one ship carrying eighteen emaciated men. During their remarkable voyage around the world the crew endured starvation, disease, mutiny, and torture. Many men died, including Magellan, who was violently killed in a fierce battle.
This is the first full account in nearly half a century of this voyage into history: a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance; a startling anthropological account of tribes, languages, and customs unknown to Europeans; and a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power.
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For the Love of Europe
- By: Rick Steves
- Narrator: Rick Steves
- Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 11, 2020
- Language: English
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4.15(698 ratings)
4.15(698 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDAfter 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories.Join Rick as he’s swept away by a fadoAfter 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories.
Join Rick as he’s swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a cheese course in the Loire Valley. Contemplate the mysteries of centuries-old stone circles in England, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and hear a French farmer’s defense of foie gras.... Read more
With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, For the Love of Europe features 100 of the best stories published throughout his career. Covering his adventures through England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and more, these are stories only Rick Steves could tell.Wry, personal, and full of Rick’s signature humor, For the Love of Europe is a fond and inspirational look at a lifetime of travel. -
The Road Trip Survival Guide
- By: Rob Taylor
- Narrator: Vikas Adam
- Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.14(22 ratings)
4.14(22 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDMake the most of your next road trip with these essential tips and tricks for planning the ultimate epic adventure.During COVID-19, we’ve all had to find different ways to travel. From the disruptions of airlines to the possibility of manyMake the most of your next road trip with these essential tips and tricks for planning the ultimate epic adventure.
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During COVID-19, we’ve all had to find different ways to travel. From the disruptions of airlines to the possibility of many travel restrictions at your destination, the car has become a more attractive (and safer) option.
One part Bushcraft 101 and one part vacation planning workbook, The Road Trip Survival Guide provides guidance for new road trippers as well as essential tips and tricks for even the most experienced roadsters including:
-How to organize your car for trips
-Packing lists for different types of vacations, from city breaks to outdoor adventures
-How to develop the perfect road trip itinerary that will suit the whole family
-Recipes and recommendations for the best car snacks (easy access and less mess!)
-Tips and tricks for making your trip more eco-friendly
-How to reroute a road trip gone wrong
-And more!
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The Old Ways
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrator: Robin Sachs
- Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.14(6200 ratings)
4.14(6200 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFrom the acclaimed author of The Wild Places comes an engrossing exploration of walking and thinking. In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, droveFrom the acclaimed author of The Wild Places comes an engrossing exploration of walking and thinking.
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual.
Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature. His walks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird islands of the Scottish northwest, from Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas. Along the way he crosses paths with walkers of many kinds—wanderers, pilgrims, guides, and artists. Above all this is a book about walking as a journey inward and the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move. Macfarlane discovers that paths offer not just a means of traversing space but of feeling, knowing, and thinking.
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Sailing Alone around the World
- By: Joshua Slocum
- Narrator: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.14(7536 ratings)
4.14(7536 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDChallenged 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,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.
Whether Slocum was more accomplished as a writer or sailor is hard to say. His writing style is fast paced, witty, and exhilarating, an absorbing match to his harrowing adventures—adventures that included being chased by Moorish pirates off Gibraltar; escaping a fleet of hostile canoes; being submerged by a great wave off the Patagonian coast; an encounter with Black Pedro, “the worst murderer in Tierra del Fuego”; and foiling a nocturnal attack by savages by strewing carpet tacks on the Spray’s deck.
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Dispatches from the Gilded Age
- By: Julia Reed
- Narrator: Carol Monda
- Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.13(72 ratings)
4.13(72 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDDispatches from the Gilded Age is a collection of essays by Julia Reed, one of America’s greatest chroniclers. In the middle of the night on March eleventh, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed’s Georgetown dorm. It was her boss atDispatches from the Gilded Age is a collection of essays by Julia Reed, one of America’s greatest chroniclers.
In the middle of the night on March eleventh, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed’s Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek, where she was an intern. He told her to get in her car and drive to her alma mater, the Madeira School. Her former headmistress, Jean Harris, had just shot Dr. Herman Tarnower, The Scarsdale Diet Doctor. Julia didn’t flinch. She dressed, drove to Madeira, got the story–and her first byline–and the new American Gilded Age was off and running.
The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first was a time in which the high and the low bubbled furiously together and Julia was there with her sharp eye, keen wit, and uproariously clear-eyed way of seeing the world to chronicle this truly spectacular era. Dispatches from the Gilded Age is Julia at her best as she profiles Andre Leon Talley, Sister Helen Prejean, President George and Laura Bush, Madeleine Albright, and others. Listeners will travel to Africa and Cuba with Julia, dine at Le Bernardin, savor steaks at Doe’s Eat Place, consider the fashions of the day, get the recipes for her hot cheese olives and end up with the ride of their lives through Julia’s beloved South.
With a foreword by Roy Blount, Jr. and edited by Julia’s longtime assistant, Everett Bexley.
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Locomotive
- By: Brian Floca
- Narrator: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 38 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 20, 2014
- Language: English
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4.12(5816 ratings)
4.12(5816 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDIt is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America’s brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mightyIt is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America’s brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails, come cross the young country!
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven
- By: Josh Ruxin
- Narrator: Will Collyer
- Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 05, 2013
- Language: English
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4.11(638 ratings)
4.11(638 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDOne couple’s inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core:One couple’s inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven.... Read moreNewlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant?
While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country’s rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success. Remarkably, they found that between helping youth marry their own local ingredients with gourmet recipes (and mix up “the best guacamole in Africa”) and teaching them how to help themselves, they created much-needed jobs while showing that genocide’s survivors really could work together.
While first a memoir of love, adventure, and family, A Thousand Hills to Heaven also provides a remarkable view of how, through health, jobs, and economic growth, our foreign aid programs can be quickly remodeled and work to end poverty worldwide.
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Israel – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- By: Jeffrey Geri
- Narrator: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 18, 2020
- Language: English
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4.1(9 ratings)
4.1(9 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThis edition provides important insights for listeners, revealing what to expect and how to behave, how to avoid misunderstandings, and how to form good social and business relationships when on visit to Israel. While Israel is a modern and largelyThis edition provides important insights for listeners, revealing what to expect and how to behave, how to avoid misunderstandings, and how to form good social and business relationships when on visit to Israel. While Israel is a modern and largely secular country, it is one steeped in biblical history–a place where religion still plays an active role in public life.
In seventy years, it has grown from a sparsely populated strip of land into a vigorous democracy and regional superpower. Often called the Startup Nation, Israel is a world leader in a number of high-tech industries. Its democratic institutions, despite political and social polarization in recent years, are among the most enlightened in the world. This pocket guide will help listeners understand the country and its people beyond the headlines, ensuring greater understanding and a valuable and successful traveling experience.
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Infused
- By: Henrietta Lovell
- Narrator: Henrietta Lovell
- Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 21, 2020
- Language: English
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4.09(585 ratings)
4.09(585 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDHenrietta Lovell is on a mission to revolutionize the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Her quest has seen her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills of theHenrietta Lovell is on a mission to revolutionize the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Her quest has seen her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills of the Himalayas, and to hidden gardens in the Wuyi-Shan to source the world’s most extraordinary teas.
Infused invites us to discover these remarkable places, introducing us to the individual growers and household-name chefs Lovell has met along the way–and reveals the true pleasures of tea. The result is a delicious infusion of travel writing, memoir, recipes, and glorious photography, all written with Lovell’s unique charm and wit.
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Rebel With A Clause
- By: Ellen Jovin
- Narrator: Ellen Jovin
- Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 19, 2022
- Language: English
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4.08(398 ratings)
4.08(398 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFor fans of Mary Norris and Benjamin Dreyer, an unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian. When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up aFor fans of Mary Norris and Benjamin Dreyer, an unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian.
When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hit—attracting the attention of the New York Times, NPR, and CBS National News—that Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, editors, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world.
In Rebel with a Clause, Jovin tackles what is most on people’s minds, grammatically speaking—from the Oxford comma to the places prepositions can go, the likely lifespan of whom, semicolonphobia, and more.
Punctuated with linguistic debates from tiny towns to our largest cities, this grammar romp will delight anyone wishing to polish their prose or revel in our age-old, universal fascination with language.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Chesapeake Requiem
- By: Earl Swift
- Narrator: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 07, 2018
- Language: English
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4.08(1895 ratings)
4.08(1895 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDA brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg,A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, Science Friday, and Kirkus
“BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE.” — Hampton Sides * “GORGEOUS. A TRULY REMARKABLE BOOK.” — Beth Macy * “GRIPPING. FANTASTIC.” — Outside * “CAPTIVATING.” — Washington Post * “POWERFUL.” — Bill McKibben * “VIVID. HARROWING AND MOVING.” — Science * “A MASTERFUL NARRATIVE.” — Christian Science Monitor * “THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR.” — Stephen L. Carter/Bloomberg
A Washington Post bestseller * An Indie Next List selection *An NPR All Things Considered and Axios “Book Club” pick
Tangier Island, Virginia, is a community unique on the American landscape. Mapped by John Smith in 1608, settled during the American Revolution, the tiny sliver of mud is home to 470 hardy people who live an isolated and challenging existence, with one foot in the 21st century and another in times long passed. They are separated from their countrymen by the nation’s largest estuary, and a twelve-mile boat trip across often tempestuous water–the same water that for generations has made Tangier’s fleet of small fishing boats a chief source for the rightly prized Chesapeake Bay blue crab, and has lent the island its claim to fame as the softshell crab capital of the world.
Yet for all of its long history, and despite its tenacity, Tangier is disappearing. The very water that has long sustained it is erasing the island day by day, wave by wave. It has lost two-thirds of its land since 1850, and still its shoreline retreats by fifteen feet a year–meaning this storied place will likely succumb first among U.S. towns to the effects of climate change. Experts reckon that, barring heroic intervention by the federal government, islanders could be forced to abandon their home within twenty-five years. Meanwhile, the graves of their forebears are being sprung open by encroaching tides, and the conservative and deeply religious Tangiermen ponder the end times.
Chesapeake Requiem is an intimate look at the island’s past, present and tenuous future, by an acclaimed journalist who spent much of the past two years living among Tangier’s people, crabbing and oystering with its watermen, and observing its long traditions and odd ways. What emerges is the poignant tale of a world that has, quite nearly, gone by–and a leading-edge report on the coming fate of countless coastal communities.
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Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
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