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Title: Travels of a Renaissance Man

Author: Ezekiel Phillips

Narrator: Ezekiel Phillips

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-17

Publisher: Ezekiel Phillips

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Travels of a Renaissance Man is one man's experience discovering what lies beyond the cities and borders of America. Ezekiel Phillips' travel journey began in 2007 when popular television personality and philanthropist Tavis Smiley, along with his pastor Bishop Noel Jones, showed love by sponsoring Phillips on a mission trip to the African city of Accra in the nation of Ghana. From that experience, the California native spring boarded into more than 16 different international excursions.

Combine these life changing experiences with Phillips' dynamic film-making ability, and you get a rare behind the scenes glimpse into life on the ground in less developed nations like the Philippines and Haiti.

Ezekiel Phillips has risen beyond the confines of his Los Angeles neighborhood, known as "The Jungles", to become a 2011 graduate of Morehouse College with a goal to inspire others through his travels. His self-proclaimed guerilla-style film-making takes a no permits, no permission, bold, and sometimes dangerous approach to show viewers life raw and uncut as it happens on international soil.

This Renaissance man documents his travels with video and shares them with his loyal followers. The experiences captured during his travels enable him to add value to people's lives that have yet to embrace globalization and travel. As a result of exposing himself to new cultures, communities, and people, Phillips collaborates with like-minded young adults for both personal and communal gain.

According to Ezekiel, the next step to his maturing process is building strong relationships with emerging young leaders to bring social change across the globe. Travel is only a small portion of this vision. Phillips says the evolution of his character through travel is allowing him to embrace his responsibility and calling to bring about real change and upward mobility in ghettos across the globe.

Members Reviews:

I wanted more...

An amazing story but maybe even more impressive and interesting because I am lucky enough to know the author. Strong and smart!

Namaste or Talk to meeee

Very informative and inspirational! Opened my eyes to things I wasnt given verbal answers to... read the book... I get it and thank you!

Great job!!! Cant wait for the next!

Best narrator EVER

Zeeks voice makes this audio so much more entertaining than any other audio book I have ever heard!!! Great Job man

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Title: Lean Travel

Subtitle: Travel Light with a Full Heart

Author: Paul A. Akers

Narrator: Paul A. Akers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-17

Publisher: FastCap Press

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Less is More. Give more and take less...from how you act, to how you pack.

About 10 years ago, I decided that I wanted to become a world-class giver. You might be thinking, "Why are you telling me this at the beginning of a book called Lean Travel?" The reason is quite simple. In order to have a great travel experience, you must approach it from the standpoint that you are going to treat all the people you encounter with dignity and respect, understanding that they are working hard to help you have a great trip. If you regularly give them your respect, your smile, your encouragement, and your gratitude, your travel will be a blessing!

In addition to being grateful, another way to make your travel experience more fulfilling is to live by the adage that "less is more". In a Lean Travel context, this means travel light. For example, I bought a pair of high-quality Keen sandals, thinking they would be the ultimate travel sandal. After a few trips around the world, however, I realized they were really quite bulky and heavy. They were also a bit overkill for what I needed, which was mostly when walking to the hotel pool or restaurant. So, in adherence to my philosophy of traveling light, I found a very inexpensive pair of sandals for five bucks and I turned in my $70 pair of Keens. This is a perfect example of lean travel, because it demonstrates how a simple two-second improvement can make travel more effective and enjoyable. My suitcase weighed about four pounds less, everything packed up easier, and the new sandals were absolutely perfect for my needs.

As you start this book, I want you to understand the two main parts of my philosophy. First, what you give in the travel experience will have a profound impact on how much you enjoy it. Second, the less you bring and the lighter you travel, the more you will be able to feel and adapt to the fantastic trade winds of the travel experience. So travel with a full heart and a light suitcase!

Members Reviews:

Thank you Paul for sharing your ideas, experiences and most of all ...your heart!

I will share your wonderful book with others whenever possible. Thank you for writing this book and all your videos too!

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Title: Falling Uphill

Author: Scott Stoll

Narrator: Scott Stoll

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-17

Publisher: The Argonauts

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Re-live Falling Uphill with a new afterword that paints the journey in a new light that only time can tell.

If you could do anything, what would you do? Falling Uphill is the story of one man's quest for happiness around the world on a bicycle.

In one week, Scott Stoll lost his job, his best friend, his girlfriend and his confidence. Disillusioned with society, full of angst, suffering from depression and with nothing left to lose Stoll asked himself a question: "If I only have one life, one chance, if I could do anything, what would I do?"

His answer resulted in a four-year and 25,752-mile odyssey around the world by bicycle using nothing more than a paper map as a guide. Stoll searched for answers to the great mysteries of life, vowing to find happiness or die trying. The quest wasn't easy. He was imprisoned, held hostage, mugged, run over, suspected of terrorism, accused of espionage, nearly trampled by elephants, wounded, diseased, heartbroken - he nearly died a dozen times. But more importantly, Stoll discovered the wonders of the world, kindness among strangers, the meaning of life, peace, love, faith and - Yes! - in the last place left to look, he found happiness.

Re-live and re-imagine an archetypal adventure as a man stumbles through moments of pure survival and moments of pure enlightenment.

Members Reviews:

Great book

I was actually able to speak with Scott about his travels while preparing for my own. I spoke with him as I was reading the book..a couple of years ago. At first, I wasn't sure what to think of his writing style, and I felt it was a little slow. It did pickup, however, and recharged my own dream of riding coast to coast. If you want a great story regarding enlightenment, this is it. On a bike. Depressed, alone, and unsure. I felt deeply connected to him, as I could relate (as a human and a cyclist), to much of what he describes in this book. It is well worth the read.

Scott did ask me to write a review of the book, and he said he didn't care if it was good or bad... He wanted an honest opinion. I apologize that it took this long. I was riding...

Best Cycle Touring Account On The Market!

I am just finishing up this amazing book! I am a touring cyclist myself who is obsessed with reading about the adventures of other touring cyclists and I've read them all... I thought I had anyway until I came across this little gem in my Kindle store a couple of weeks ago. I read the sample and bought it immediately. I couldn't believe that this book had escaped my searches until now.

Stoll masterfully relates his experiences as he cycles around the world. The reader is pulled immediately into the action, the tasteful dialogue, beautiful imagery and a healthy sense of humor. And if that's all Stoll did, it would be a fantastic book. But he takes it much deeper as he springboards from his experience into contemplations on the meaning of love, life, God, integrity, and his own existence. This book has all the adventure of Barbara Savage's "Miles From Nowhere", all the fun of Joe Kurmaskie's "Metal Cowboy", the touching lonely romance of Dave Stamboulis' "Odysseus' Last Stand" PLUS a universality of thought that all three of those cycle touring classics lack. I can't recommend this book highly enough!!!

NOTE! Stoll divides his chapters by theme rather than time (similar to the "Metal Cowboy" books).

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Title: Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure

Author: Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey

Narrator: Michelle Murillo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-17

Publisher: New Street Communications, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

A tale of adventures, as Lin and Larry Pardey continue their voyaging on board their self-built 24'4" cutter. They cross the exotic sea that spawned Homer's tales of Ulysses' Odyssey, then sail through the strife torn Red Sea and across the typhoon tossed waters of the Bay of Bengal.

In this book, fourth of the Seraffyn series, the Pardeys have reached a turning point in their lives - halfway around the world, eight years into a meandering voyage. Their routes had always been determined by the need to find the work to support their cruising life-style or the desire to see an island spoken of by some favorite writer. Now they have to decide whether to continue eastward, or turn back westward and complete the circle with a return to the place they once called home.

Members Reviews:

Lin is one of the best writers of sailing

Brought this book years ago along with all of theParkey Cruising series but lost them in a move. I purchased these to reread and keep in my library. Lin is one of the best writers of sailing, she tells it like it is in a very interesting way. I now have almost all of her books.

Good story telling!

I have dreamed of sailing around the world, but I recognize that it is not going to happen for me. But I still like to read the first person view of the person that is adventurers enough to do it! Lin and Larry have lived the adventure and I have followed them by reading all of the books detailing their life together. I have enjoyed each of their sailing trips!

I didn't realise this wasn't written as a Lyn and ...

I didn't realise this wasn't written as a Lyn and Larry Pardy sailing adventure. Rather it's an accumulation of boats, their specifications and their owners. Disapppointed to find it wasn't written in the same vein as "Seraffyn's European Adventure".

Sad.

Well, I just finished the last book of the Saraffyn odyssey and am sad that it's over. As an old retired "land lubber" who is pretty happy with his past and present life, I still find that I'm envious of the life Lin and Larry have lived. I wonder if there are any sailing schools in East Texas......

Sailing as a life

These are the people that awoke my interest sailing. Their description of. People and places are inspirering and interesting. I wish they would add a. Glossary of sails ropes and other terms the average rookies would learn from.

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Title: The Alps

Subtitle: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond

Author: Stephen O'Shea

Narrator: Robert Fass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

For centuries the Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers - and some 14 million people live among their peaks today. In The Alps, Stephen O'Shea takes listeners up and down these majestic mountains, journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia. Along the way he explores the reality behind Hannibal and his elephants' famous crossing in 218 BCE; he reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture, from Frankenstein to Heidi to The Sound of Music; and he visits the spot where Arthur Conan Doyle staged Sherlock Holmes' death scene, the bloody site of the Italians' retreat in World War I, and Hitler's notorious vacation house, the Eagle's Nest. Throughout, O'Shea records his adventures with the watchmakers, salt miners, cable-car operators, and yodelers who define the Alps today.

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Title: Paris Travel Guide

Subtitle: The Ultimate Tourist's Guide to Sightseeing, Adventure & Partying in Paris

Author: Wanderlust Readers

Narrator: Bo Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-17

Publisher: Wanderlust Readers

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Are you ready to discover everything you need to know to get the most out of your holiday to Paris? If so you've come to the right place! Here's a preview of what you're about to learn:

Members Reviews:

Very informative and helpful guide book!

Paris is one of the places me and my family wanted to visit in the near future and we are lucky to have found this book. This book has everything that we needed to know about Paris. It has the origins, tourist hot spots, what climate is the best for tourists, the Parisian culture, the cuisine, fashion and plenty of more things that every tourists should know about the place before visiting it. Also, the three great places to visit in Paris are also included here in this book like The Eiffel Tower, Champs-Elysees and Les Grand Boulevards and the reasons why visit them.

A longing for cultural enrichment.

For me, I definitely won't be missing to visit the Notre Dame Cathedral, Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum in my future trip to Paris. Although there are a lot of tourist spots in Paris being mentioned in this book, I consider these three as the most important places that could cater my longing for cultural and artistic enrichment. It is quite important to note from this book its overview descriptions of the most precious art masterpieces found in the Louvre Museum. These could help me much more in appreciating the art collection found in Louvre Museum. Truly, this book can serve as a travel guide in this future visit of mine. In addition, this book also contains a brief travel descriptions on such places like Auckland, Sydney, and London.

Good add to my adventure

Nice guide to Paris! From the nightlife to the amazing fashion, this guide makes sure you hit the high spots of Paris. Wanderlust Readers makes sure after your trip you are no stranger to the finest arts, bakeries, music, and architecture that the city has to offer! This is a must read if your visiting Paris, France.

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Title: Mind the Gap in Zip-It Socks

Author: Patricia A Steele

Narrator: Melanie A. Mason, Latricia Zaitoon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-17

Publisher: Plumeria Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Mind the Gap in Zip-It Socks is a humorous travel memoir. Two American women turned loose in England find themselves lost in the maze at Leed's Castle. They are awed inside Canterbury Cathedral, where an aged priest takes them into a private chapel. And Stonehenge? They are mesmerized with the magical mystery of its existence. The ladies quickly learn that the trains in England are a mystery of their own, but they persevere and walk the sands of Folkestone and eat fish and chips in the charming village of Rye. And they laugh all the way across the beautiful country of England sharing wine, food, and playing cribbage.

Members Reviews:

Your grandma goes to England!

Reading this is like listening to your grandmother talk about her travels. Lots of talk about carrying their luggage and their struggles with trains. I wanted it to be charming, but I found myself questioning how they survived. Who goes to London on a vacation but doesn't know what the London Eye is? Or Soho? I can kind of see why their husbands chose to stay home...

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Title: London Travel Guide

Subtitle: The Ultimate Tourist's Guide to Sightseeing, Adventure & Partying in London

Author: Wanderlust Readers

Narrator: Bo Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-17

Publisher: Wanderlust Readers

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Your ultimate London travel companion! Are you ready to discover everything you need to know to get the most out of your holiday to London? If so you've come to the right place! Here's a preview of what you're about to learn:

Members Reviews:

This was the book I needed a few years ago!

Having visited London, I know exactly what it feels like to be in a major city and not know what to do. There are always so much hustle and bustle around the city and the lights and sounds come from everywhere. You have only a limited amount of time and don't know what you should do. Analysis paralysis kicks in and you end up doing very little with the time you have.

That's where this book comes in super handy. It breaks down London and let's you know exactly what you must see. It also hits issues like how to get around and also things to avoid. I really loved this book and wished I had it for my last trip. Though, I will have it the next time I visit London!

Basic guide which can jumpstart more research on London

I got this book with the thought that it can give me an insider's view of what to see in London. The book is basically a rundown of things to see in London. A basic description, address and cost are all there is for every attraction presented. It was a good thing that photos accompanied each sight but it could have been better if photos used are from the author so that you can really have a feel of the place/area instead of a website's pic. The good thing about the book are the tips and what to expect when in London. It makes visiting a new place less intimidating.

School trip to London

For a successful school trip to London, I guessed right we need a travel guide with the vital information on the hotels, Restaurants and the tourists centers as it the first time for all of us in the class and we wouldn't want to have a bad trip after getting lost when touring the multi-cultural city of London.

very useful

I used this on my recent trip. I didn't think I would need this book with all the information on the internet, but having so much wealth of knowledge in your hands can't be stressed enough. Great detailed info and reviews and maps were very helpful too. I have based my logistics mostly on this book.

best places to check out when in London

London will never cease to amaze me. This book reinforces my desire to revisit that glorious city with the brief descriptions of destinations and pictures that come with each featured place. From palaces to the bars, from museums to nature walks, the book shows Londonâs best spots that any tourist would really enjoy visiting. The author kept the descriptions short but provided the necessary helpful information intact.

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Title: Safari Jema

Subtitle: A Journey of Love and Adventure from Casablanca to Cape Town

Author: Teresa O'Kane

Narrator: Jennifer Groberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-17

Publisher: Teresa O'Kane

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Teresa O'Kane had always longed to see the world. She owned scads of travel books and maps and was about to buy yet another bookcase to hold the many Lonely Planet guides and travel essays that she had accumulated over the years when she turned to her husband and said, "I'm tired of storing our dreams. Let's live them!" Within a month, they bought one-way tickets to Morocco, leased out their home, and set out on a journey of the African continent top to bottom from Casablanca to Cape Town. Transiting 17 countries in 10 months, mostly by public transport, they explored wild, exotic, and historic locations they had only dreamed of and some they had never heard of. From sandy Timbuktu, to a tiny lemur populated island in Madagascar, the author embraces Africa. She strokes the manes of lions, contracts malaria (twice), flies a micro light over Victoria Falls, earns a level one certification as a South African safari guide, discovers that an insect has turned her foot into a nursery for hundreds of eggs, grapples with the negative effects of foreign aid, and rubs elbows with European royalty deep within the Dogon in Mali. O'Kane offers an entertaining and enlightening look into overland travel on the African continent. Filled with helpful budget minded travel tips, this hilarious and inspiring book may find you yearning to take a career break of your own. Teresa is currently on another year long expedition in Africa, this time in her own 1973 Land Rover Series lll named N'doto (Dream). You can follow her travels at teresaokane.blogspot.com

Awards: The Indie Book Award for Best Memoir of 2012 and Finalist for Best Travel Book 2013.

Members Reviews:

More Than Just A Travel Memoir

Safari Jema is more than just a travel memoir. While itâs true that Teresa OâKaneâs recount of her adventurous overland journey of the African Continent âfrom top to bottomâ contains the kinds of tips that will benefit anyone considering travelling there (or anywhere, actually), the book is perhaps even more valuable to readers as a vivid illustration that fabulous wealth is not a necessary prerequisite to extended travel and as an excellent reminder that âexperiences are more valuable than things.â

Following a loose (and ultimately, almost non-existent) itinerary that allowed them the utmost flexibility in their day-to-day travel decisions, Teresa and her husband took the good and the bad from their trip with equal aplomb. To them, experiencing, enduring, and overcoming the inevitable discomforts, setbacks, and mishaps that occur over the course of a 10-month trek are a significant part of its appeal, and makes lifeâs luxuries (like an occasional tall Gin and Tonic at sundown) even more treasured.

An added bonus to Safari Jema is the first-time authorâs remarkably skillful writing. Whether detailing up close and personal encounters with lions, baboons, elephants and a terrifyingly territorial hippo or marveling at the majestic beauty of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Victoria Falls, and the countless rivers and lakes upon which shores she and her husband pitched a tent, Ms. OâKane describes a spectacular continent not always conforming to the Africa in most of our imaginations.

But perhaps most enjoyable to the reader is the humor and warmth âTrisâ conveys in her writing.

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Title: Sydney Travel Guide

Subtitle: The Ultimate Tourist's Guide to Sightseeing, Adventure & Partying in Sydney

Author: Wanderlust Readers

Narrator: Bo Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-17

Publisher: Wanderlust Readers

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

Publisher's Summary:

Are you ready to discover everything you need to know to get the most out of your holiday to Australia? If so you've come to the right place!

Here's a preview of what you're about to learn:

Members Reviews:

Very helpful and informative guide book!

Me and my family loved travelling and Sydney is included in our bucket list. So, when I found this book I was so excited to read it. This book would really be helpful for first time travelers in Sydney. Simple and easy to understand which places a tourist should go. Will definitely follow this guide book in the future travel of me and my family.

touring Sydney will be easier now

The beauty and charm of Sydney Australiaâs popular destinations are evident through the chapters of this book. Itâs a complete guide with photos and even entrance fee rates. This will definitely be with me during my tour to Sydney. It will save me a lot of time. Reading this book is almost like talking to a friendly local. There is to explore beyond the classic opera house. I am glad I got this book now.

Basic guide

The information was rather limited. For some unexplained reason, there were also sections on Auckland and London as well.

Captivating beauty of Sydney

How can you not fall in love-at-first-sight with Sydney, with all the captivating destinations, particularly the beaches, the wildlife, and the artistic culture? After reading this book, I would definitely want to plan a trip there soon. The descriptions of each place may be brief but the details any tourist will need are there, including photos, to give you an idea of the sights. This travel book is a must read for all who will book a trip to Sydney.

Perfect travel buddy...

The book is really amazing! It has information about Sydney's location that would be helpful when you are travelling in that place. No need to have a tourist guide because you got the book already as your buddy. A big thanks to the author for writing this book.