Travel Essays

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    • Essays and Arguments
    • By: David Foster Wallace
    • Narrated by: Paul Garcia
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 843 ratings
    • David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the best-selling Infinite Jest....

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    • Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 813 ratings
    • Best-selling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature....

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    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Three years after the epic adventure described in Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again....

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    • By: J. Maarten Troost
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 754 ratings
    • When the travel bug bit, J. Maarten Troost took on the world's most populous and intriguing nation....

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    • A Summer in Italy
    • By: Rachel Cusk
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A vivid and elegant account of a family’s season abroad by one of our finest contemporary authors....

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    • The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred
    • By: Phil Cousineau
    • Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Phil Cousineau's lifetime of pilgrimage has taken him from the depths of lost jungles to the heights of the human soul, always with passion, curiosity, warmth, wisdom and humor....

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    • By: Francis Parkman
    • Narrated by: Frank Muller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,977 ratings
    • Francis Parkman's journal - written in 1846 - provides an eye-witness account of a Harvard-educated Bostonian traveling the Rocky Mountains, living among the Dakota Sioux....

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    • A Guide for the Globally Curious
    • By: Seth Kugel
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • By captivating millions during his six-year, 50-country tenure as The New York Times' "Frugal Traveler", Seth Kugel has become one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. In a book with widespread cultural reverberations, Kugel takes the modern travel industry to task....

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    • By: Earl V. Shaffer
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for eleven years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey—until Earl Shaffer....

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    • Essays
    • By: Michael Paterniti
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, the author brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief....

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    • By: E. B. White
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 513 ratings
    • Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures....

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    • Pure City
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land....

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    • And Other Travel Misadventures
    • By: Marion Winik
    • Narrated by: Sasha Dunbrooke
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Ranging from Paris to Peru, from New Orleans to Uganda to the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, these travel essays are full of life, humor, and humanity....

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    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India....

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    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

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    • By: Fred A. Birchmore, David V. Herlihy - foreword
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 1935, Fred A. Birchmore left the small American town of Athens, Georgia, to continue his college studies in Europe. In his spare time, Birchmore toured the continent on a one-speed bike he called Bucephalus (after the name of Alexander the Great's horse)....

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    • Essays from Dry Places
    • By: Craig Childs
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
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    • From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons - a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced....

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    • By: Ned Palmer
    • Narrated by: Ned Palmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Cheesemonger Ned Palmer takes us on a delicious journey across Britain and Ireland and through time to uncover the histories of beloved old favourites like Cheddar and Wensleydale and fresh innovations like the Irish Cashel Blue or the rambunctious Renegade Monk....

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