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Title: Frommer's Best of London Audio Tour

Author: Alexis Lipsitz Flippin

Narrator: Pauline Frommer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-07

Publisher: Wiley Publishing Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Whether you're planning your trip or already there, Frommer's Best of London will take you through the top 20 sites, from Big Ben to the Eye. This tour includes a map to help you get around, and itineraries to put it all together. Pauline Frommer, travel expert and creator of Pauline Frommer's Travel Guides, guides you through the best of England's capital city.

© and (P)2007 Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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Title: Long Way Round

Subtitle: Chasing Shadows Across the World

Author: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman

Narrator: Mark Bonnar, Rupert Degas

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-06

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 36 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Film star Ewan McGregor travels around the world by motorcycle with his best friend, actor Charley Boorman. A unique and fascinating travel/adventure book.

© and (P)2006 Hachette Audio

Members Reviews:

Can't wait for Long Way Down

Brilliant. Funny. Mind provoking. This tale gave us extra desire to get on bikes and go. Brilliant.

Good listen after watching the Television Series

Gives a deeper, worthwhile insight into the Long Way Round journey after watching television series.

great

good book. love the story. it has inspired me to travel from London to south of italy in 2018. so really looking forward to doing it. Cheers

Very good for a long journey

Very good, I cannot believe I missed the tv programme, this is a great book to listen too while driving long distances, I really enjoyed listening to this. The only criticism I have is the voices take a bit of getting used to, in fact I had to to go back and listen to the first twenty minutes again just to get used to their voices not matching the characters we all know but after that it's great, I noticed when reading reviews before I purchased this audiobook that someone else had put the same comment. It's such a shame it's not in their own voices, But don't be put off by this it's still a great listen

Long way round finished nice and easy

This has proven to be a very enjoyable listen. The voices at first was a little unnusual as we all know how Ewan and Charlie sound however you soon get used to it. A really funny journey which I am sure has inspired many a road trip. Definitely worth downloading!

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Title: Bryce Canyon Tour

Author: Waypoint Tours

Narrator: Janet Ault, Mark Andrews

Format: Original Recording

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-19-06

Publisher: Waypoint Tours

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

What does a Mormon shipwright have in common with a wildlife menagerie nestled among enthralling geology adorned with a star encrusted night sky? Answer: Bryce and the five years he was here. Welcome to Bryce Canyon National Park, named after shipwright Ebenezer Bryce. From the flame-colored spires beneath the rim, to the sparkling diamonds in the night sky, we hope you enjoy the magical beauty of Bryce Canyon.

Ebenezer Bryce was born in Dunblain, Scotland in 1830. As a shipwright's apprentice, he learned carpentry, the trade that would become his life. Bryce converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. Upon arriving in Utah, Bryce wed Mary Parker, and at the direction of the Mormon Church, the couple became serial homesteaders, going wherever the skills of a carpenter were most needed. They also managed to raise 12 children along the way! It was between 1875 and 1880 that the Bryces lived in the lower canyon. By logging the flanks and irrigating the floor of the canyon that his neighbors christened with his name, Ebenezer supplied the fledging community with wood and water. It's unclear to what extent Bryce appreciated the world wonder that would immortalize his name. His only enduring quote about this rock labyrinth expresses more pragmatism than awe: "It's a hell of place to lose a cow."

Indeed, where Ebenezer Bryce was worried about losing his cows among the hoodoos, many now come to Bryce with the intent of getting a little lost themselves in its beauty. As Park Ranger Kevin Poe puts it, "There's no question that the rocks are enchanting. But it's also a hell of place to lose yourself...among the stars."

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Title: iJourneys Paris

Subtitle: The Left Bank

Author: Elyse Weiner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-12-06

Publisher: iJourneys, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

On this tour of Paris' Left Bank, you'll experience: the white hot center of Paris where writers, artists, and musicians come to create; St. Germain des Pres, the oldest church in Paris; the history of massacres and martyrs; chic shops and naughty novels; the art of the cafe; the history of what happened to the heads of Notre Dame's statues; Roman ruins beneath the Cathedral; a hidden jewel of a Renaissance courtyard; window shopping to the pulse of Jazz; a stroll through a marvelous morning market; a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower; a walk on the street where the guillotine was perfected; the joy of eating French fries in the student quarter; Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, Ben Franklin, and the Empress Josephine; a secret entrance to the Louvre; a soaking in Impressionists and Existentialists, intellectuals and revolutionaries.

©2005 iJourneys

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Title: Notes From a Big Country

Author: Bill Bryson

Narrator: William Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-06

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 82 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Des Moines, Iowa-born writer Bryson's first success was the travel book The Lost Continent. After living in England for several years, he wanted to go back to the USA to find the perfect little US town of his past, he lovingly called Amalgam. More travel books followed, in the form of Neither Here Nor There (where he travels through Europe), Notes From A Small Island (where he travels around the United Kingdom, before returning back to the USA to live there for good) and A Walk In The Woods (where he walks the Appalachian trail). After moving back to the States, Bryson started to write a column for The Mail on Sunday Night and Day magazine. This is a collection of these column entries. Bryson writes about everything from everyday chores, to suing people, the beach, TV, movies, air conditioners, college, Americana, injury dangers, wasting resources, and holiday seasons.

©1998 Bill Bryson; (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"This is Bryson at his best." (Amazon.co.uk)

Members Reviews:

Bitter or Sweet ? I'm not sure !

I really enjoy Bill Bryson and his sense of observational humour really appeals however, although this was funny at times, because it was a collection of smaller clips I found that I could not get my teeth into it as much. It is worth having in a collection because it is enjoyable but I would not put it high on my list of Bill Bryson must haves. I was expecting it to be like Notes From A Small Island but in this respect I was a little dissappointed.

The usual

Brilliant written as usual.

Excellently read as usual.

A joy to listen to as usual.

Do yourself a favour and get this book.

Great book, well written.

Overall a fantastic buy but for me William Roberts does not have a voice I appreciate listening to hours of.

:) loved it

Loved the book and I enjoyed the narrator's reading.... If you like Bill Bryson's witty view of life you will love this one

Great book, terrible narration

As an avid fan of Bill Bryson, I couldn't wait to download and play this, possibly my favourite book of his. Unfortunately the narrator's voice is so grating and misinterpretive of the content, I cannot listen for more than 10 minutes at a time. It's such a shame. I gave 3 stars for the content, I really love this book, but had to take away for the narration.

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Title: iJourneys Pompeii

Subtitle: City Frozen in Time

Author: Elyse Weiner

Narrator: Elyse Weiner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-05

Publisher: iJourneys, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

On this tour of Pompeii, a city preserved by a volcano in 79 AD, we'll walk the ancient streets remarkably like our own. We'll hear about that incredible August day, 1900 years ago, when ash rained down from Mount Vesuvius, turning the sky black and encasing Pompeii in a time capsule; stop at ancient cafeterias and bars; cross in Roman crosswalks; marvel at the mosaics, the frescoes, the still-brilliant colors; see the pipes that brought running water to homes and fountains; envy how the very rich lived; visit the baths and theatres, gardens and stores; view plaster casts of the citizens of Pompeii as they died; see a bakery, a laundry, a brothel, and ancient graffiti still clear on city walls; and stand where the Gladiators trained and where they fought in the first Roman Amphitheatre ever.

©2005 iJourneys

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Title: Feet on the Street

Subtitle: Rambles Around New Orleans

Author: Roy Blount Jr.

Narrator: Roy Blount Jr.

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-05

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

This book is divided into rambles through different parts of the city. Each closes with lagniappe, a little bit extra, a special treat for the listener: here a brief riff on Gennifer Flowers, there a meditation on naked dancing. Roy Blount knows New Orleans like the inside of an oyster shell and is only too glad to take us to both the famous and the infamous sights.

Above all, though, Feet on the Street is a celebration of friendship and joie de vivre in one of America's greatest and most colorful cities, written by one of America's most beloved humorists.

Members Reviews:

Why couldn't the author have read this book?

I usually love Roy Blount, Jr. Unfortunately, the guy who is reading this book has no clue how to emphasize words in a Southern way, not does he even have a Southern accent. His expression in no way conveys Mr. Blount's humor. I feel like if I actually read the selection my self, I would find it much funnier than I have by listening to it here. I'd give it one star, but I'm sure the author wrote a fine book; it's just too bad that the reader completely messed it up.

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Title: Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: McAvoy Layne

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-04

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 55 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Refuge on the Kona coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. These selections of Mark Twain's newspaper dispatches are both charming and informative. The light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing as he reveals the "loveliest fleet of islands that lie anchored in any ocean". This recording evokes the historical era with the eye of a verbal artist and the voice of the performing artist.

(P)2004 The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.

Critic Reviews:

"The unmistakable touch of [Twain's] comic genius can be seen, that sly alternation of hyperbole and deadpan understatement." (The Wall Street Journal)

"Twain's powers of observation and description are unsurpassed....A vivid picture of the life and scenery of these lovely islands." (Saturday Review)

"An amalgam of workaday journalism, whimsy, shrewd and poetic observation, accurate commercial prophecy...and tongue-in-cheek tall tales." (Times Literary Supplement)

Members Reviews:

Mark Twain at the start of his career

This is a wonderful audiobook, short and sweet, containing letters written for publication by Mark Twain at the very beginning of his writing career. He was sent by a San Francisco newspaper to Hawaii with the understanding that he would describe his journey in periodic dispatches. And he does so, with all the humor, gusto, and incredibly rich evocations of natural beauty that characterize his later work. It also includes his one big journalistic coup: a detailed account of the harrowing experience of men who survived for 43 days in an open boat after their ship caught fire. Twain rushed to the scene of their rescue, interviewed them for days, compiled notes from their journals, and spun the tale into an absolute cliff-hanger. Ably narrated by McAvoy Layne.

Snapshot of Hawaii...from the words of Mark Twain!

If you love Hawaii...this is a wonderful book to give you a sense of what it was like back in 1866. It comes alive in Mark Twain's writings. This audio book was well read in the style of Mark Twain. Would recommend it highly.

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Title: Time's Magpie

Subtitle: A Walk in Prague (Unabridged Selections)

Author: Myla Goldberg

Narrator: Myla Goldberg

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-04

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Prague's personality is expressed as much by its obvious beauty as by its overlooked details. This unforgettable place is brought to life by acclaimed author Myla Goldberg, a former Prague expat, whose first novel, Bee Season, captivated so many with its unique voice and exhilarating prose.

Myla Goldberg lived in Prague in 1993, just as the process of Westernization was getting under way, the city straddling a past it wished to shed and a future it was eager to embrace. In 2003, she returned to see what the pursuit of capitalism had wrought and to observe the integral ways in which Prague's character had endured. In Time's Magpie, Goldberg explores a city where centuries-old buildings have become receptacles for Western values and a generation defined by the Communist regime coexists with a generation for whom communism is a rapidly fading memory.

This imaginative, individualistic journey will show you the odd and unique corners of a city often seeking to erase what its very stones will not allow it to forget.

Critic Reviews:

"A rich and vivid reflection on a beautiful, multifaceted city." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

This book really told it like it was

I was in Prague many times between 1995 and 2004. This book really told it like it was. I recognized so much and it brought back many memories for me.

An excellent travelogue

A fascinating peeling back the layers of culture and history, a bit off the well beaten tourist path, in one of the world's great cities.

Three Stars

Good for a plane ride. Slightly boring.

Bought for a friend.

MY friend loves Myla Goldberg, as do I. I bought this book for her, it came in a timely manner. I believe she said she enjoyed this book. Maybe one day I'll get around to reading it as well.

Self-consciously conveyed, best for return visitors

This is not meant as a travel guide like "Prague Walks" or a collection of essays about the city like Paul Wilson's slim anthology. Like John Banville's recent "Prague Pictures," it offers one author's own perspective. If you have not been to Prague, the cityscape conjured up here will be elusively imagined as you read Goldberg's energetic digressions. Having lived there a decade ago, when the formerly cheap cost-of-living lured Westerners, she brings no autobiographical recollections but a sense of the savvier long-term resident. She avoids many of the familiar tourist sites such as the Jewish quarter, Hradcany and the Castle, and the Charles Bridge. She favors, as this series stresses, the off-beat locales.

It's a quick verbal repast, edible in one or two sittings. Like dumplings and alcohol (as she notes after three decades of this diet the sudden, irreversible transition from ruddy youth to slumped middle-agers among its citizens), it fills you up for the moment but leaves you wanting more nutritious content soon after. She notices a lot more graffiti than I did, but offers insights about the pedestals and skateboarders that remain after the statues topple.

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Title: Time's Magpie

Subtitle: A Walk in Prague

Author: Myla Goldberg

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-04

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

From the critically acclaimed best-selling author of Bee Season comes a travelogue through the magical and historic city of Prague, a city of vast beauty and wonderfully intimate detail. In Time's Magpie, Myla Goldberg uses her eye for the wonder of tiny objects and everyday things to put us in touch with the essence of this haunting and fantastical place. Goldberg takes us through the city's historic streets, some eerily transformed by the devastating flood of 2002; to Lunapark, home to bumper cars, go-carts, and a discomfiting array of Technicolor confections; and through Strahov Monastery, where the cabinets of curiosity display everything from butterfly specimens to a supposedly real jabberwocky. We attend an anti-war protest in Old Town square and watch the skateboarders do tricks on a ramped marble pedestal that once held a statue of Lenin.

©2004 Myla Goldberg; (P)2004 Books on Tape

Critic Reviews:

"A rich and vivid reflection on a beautiful, multifaceted city." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

This book really told it like it was

I was in Prague many times between 1995 and 2004. This book really told it like it was. I recognized so much and it brought back many memories for me.

An excellent travelogue

A fascinating peeling back the layers of culture and history, a bit off the well beaten tourist path, in one of the world's great cities.

Three Stars

Good for a plane ride. Slightly boring.

Bought for a friend.

MY friend loves Myla Goldberg, as do I. I bought this book for her, it came in a timely manner. I believe she said she enjoyed this book. Maybe one day I'll get around to reading it as well.

Self-consciously conveyed, best for return visitors

This is not meant as a travel guide like "Prague Walks" or a collection of essays about the city like Paul Wilson's slim anthology. Like John Banville's recent "Prague Pictures," it offers one author's own perspective. If you have not been to Prague, the cityscape conjured up here will be elusively imagined as you read Goldberg's energetic digressions. Having lived there a decade ago, when the formerly cheap cost-of-living lured Westerners, she brings no autobiographical recollections but a sense of the savvier long-term resident. She avoids many of the familiar tourist sites such as the Jewish quarter, Hradcany and the Castle, and the Charles Bridge. She favors, as this series stresses, the off-beat locales.

It's a quick verbal repast, edible in one or two sittings. Like dumplings and alcohol (as she notes after three decades of this diet the sudden, irreversible transition from ruddy youth to slumped middle-agers among its citizens), it fills you up for the moment but leaves you wanting more nutritious content soon after. She notices a lot more graffiti than I did, but offers insights about the pedestals and skateboarders that remain after the statues topple. (I'm surprised she did not visit the park where the statues loll on display for tourists.) Goldberg marvels too much at the system whereby the Metro's riders go on the honor system amidst plainclothes fare-checkers--maybe as a Brooklynite she finds this unbelievable? She helpfully lets you know that both the Strahov and Clementinum libraries rope off or keep at a distance from casual visitors much of what beckons enticingly from brochures.