Discover Top 100 Audiobooks in Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

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Title: Feet on the Street

Subtitle: Rambles Around New Orleans

Author: Roy Blount

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-05

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Divided into eight Rambles through different parts of the city, this audiobook covers it all: the architecture, music, romance, historical characters (including Walt Whitman and Chuck Berry), and the food. Each Ramble closes with a lagniappe, an extra treat for the reader such as a riff on Gennifer Flowers or a meditation on naked dancing, that shows us why New Orleans, as Roy sees it, is a city "like no other place in America, and yet (or therefore) the cradle of American culture".

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Title: The Rubbish-Picker's Wife

Subtitle: An Unlikely Friendship in Kosovo

Author: Elizabeth Gowing

Narrator: Elizabeth Gowing

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-17

Publisher: Elbow Publishing

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

This is a true story of living and learning - being confused and comforted - with the excluded Ashkali people of Kosovo; an account of the challenges and delights of what happens when you find your community but it's a long way from home.

Hatemja, a rubbish-picker's wife, lives in the poorest community in the poorest country in Europe. When Elizabeth Gowing is befriended by her, the women learn with, from and about one another. How can you find the best rubbish pastures for scavenging? How can you free children to go to school rather than to go out begging? How do you then convince the local school to accept them? Can mayonnaise deal with head lice? How best to teach the 36 letters of the Albanian alphabet? How would Facebook help evacuate a family from a rat-infested hovel? How do you make baklava? And through it all, how do you maintain a precious friendship that's helped you find out the best you can be?

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Title: Desert Rats

Subtitle: Adventures in the American Outback

Author: Chinle Miller

Narrator: Richard Henzel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-15

Publisher: Yellow Cat Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

For the first time in recorded history, the complete short stories of the infamous Chinle Miller have been compiled in a book that the publisher hopes won't get anyone arrested (especially the publisher). Come sit around the campfire with an archaeologist after he unwittingly brings a unique curse upon himself; watch Ernie, the county road supervisor, accidentally bomb his own highway shed; discover a cryptic form of rock art just in time for it to save your life; and discover how a Navajo uses a Hopi rain dance to start a fire in a gated development, shutting it down before it can even be built. This book has it all: epic plane crashes, albino grizzly bears, accidental movie stars, runaway rednecks, wild Aussies, and even uranium miners with vanity plates on their old Dodge Power Wagons. And you'll meet Annie, the sweet little old lady who unknowingly foils an attempt to open a cyanide pit gold mine. As a bonus, you'll discover the possible fate of Everett Ruess, the young artist who went missing in the canyons many years ago. But best of all, included are the only known writings of Cactus Rat and Yeller Cat, two of the world's finest and, shall we say, most unique, desert rats. Generously described as eco-humor, anything is fair game for Chinle's understated tongue-in-cheek writing. You'll love seeing the underdogs win for once, and if nothing else, you'll be left with a book you can innocently pass on to your favorite corrupt nature-hating developer or politician.

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Title: South to Alaska

Subtitle: A True Story of Courage and Survival from America's Heartland to the Heart of a Dream

Author: Nancy Owens Barnes

Narrator: Nancy Owens Barnes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-17

Publisher: Rushing River Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

A true story of courage and survival, South to Alaska carries listeners from the heartland of America to the last frontier... the hard way.

Born in the dusty heart of Oklahoma in 1916, 10-year-old Melvin sees a photograph of a cabin in the Alaska wilderness in his fourth-grade geography book and dreams of living there. Nearly 50 years later he builds a 47-foot boat in his Arkansas backyard, launches it on the Arkansas River, and cruises 10,000 miles to Alaska by way of the Panama Canal. Melvin has never been south of the United States/Mexico border and has never been on a boat in the open ocean.

Learn by doing, he says.

In South to Alaska, author Nancy Owens Barnes takes listeners on two journeys. On one, listeners follow a young boy's dream that begins in a one-room, Oklahoma schoolhouse in 1926, and ends decades later on an island in southeast Alaska. On the other, listeners become a passenger aboard the Red Dog as it cruises along the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico where, in 1973, Melvin begins a solo journey along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico and Central America, through the Panama Canal, then into the Pacific Ocean to Alaska. Plagued by mechanical problems, international fraud, violent ocean storms, threats of foreign jail, illness and loneliness, Melvin fears a deadly end before reaching the place of his dreams and returning to the woman he loves. South to Alaska chronicles Melvin's 10,000-mile journey through a dangerous world he knows little about, to a world he cannot forget.

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Title: Spanish Word Booster

Subtitle: 500+ Most Needed Words & Phrases

Author: Vocabulearn

Narrator: uncredited

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-06

Publisher: Penton Overseas, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 67 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Learn with rhythm, learn with tunes,

Spanish, English words you'll use!

© and (P)1993, 2003 Penton Overseas, Inc.

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Title: Any Road USA

Subtitle: Living a Life of Freedom on the Road

Author: Bob Davidson

Narrator: Richard Henzel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-14

Publisher: Desert Varnish Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Do you belong on the road? Would you be happier living a life of freedom, going wherever you want - north in the summer and south in the winter? But how do you get free of all the encumbrances lifes managed to trap you with?

Bob Davidson lives the life he loves, on the road, and he assures you that you can get free and live your life exactly as you want. Here, he tells you exactly how he did it, and it wasnt necessarily with a grand master plan, as some say you must have to do it right. Bobs journey will make you realize that anyone can do this - all you need is the will and drive.

So, join Bob as he breaks the chains (mostly mental) that prevent him from living the life he wants and gets on the road again, just like in the Willy Nelson song, but with plans for staying there.

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Title: The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic

Subtitle: A Walk in Austin

Author: Kinky Friedman

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-04

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

In this slightly insane and surprisingly practical guide to the coolest city in Texas, you'll find out which restaurant President Bush thinks is the best burger joint; you'll get a glimpse of Willie Nelson's home; and the best view of the Mexican free-tailed bats as they make their nightly flights to and from the Congress Avenue Bridge.

Critic Reviews:

"A good travelogue conveys a sense of place while pointing the reader towards interesting activities, destinations, places to eat and the like. A great travelogue does all this, but it also stands alone as an enjoyable read, regardless of the reader's travel plans. This quirky tour of Austin, Texas, delivers the whole enchilada." (Publishers Weekly)

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