AuthorSue Perkins
NarratorSue Perkins
Duration10h 24m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Travel
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
VersionUnabridged
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of East of Croydon written and read by Sue Perkins. A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from the vast delta in Vietnam to the remote and snowy peaks of Tibet. Up until that point, the farthest East I'd been was Torremolinos, in the Costa Del Sol. Here's the thing: I am scared of flying. I have zero practical skills. I can't survive if I am more than a three minute walk from a supermarket. For the last seven years I have suffered with crippling anxiety I bolt when panicked. I cannot bear to witness humans or animals in distress I have no ability to learn languages. I am a terrible hypochondriac And I am no good with boats. So I said yes.
Author: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 2h 54m
In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the cities have gleaming skyscrapers and luxuri...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Anna Fields
Duration 4h 53m
A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is Edith Wharton's remarkable account of her journey to that country during World War I. With her characteristic sense of adventure, Wharton set out to explore Morocco and its people, traveling by military jeep to Rabat, Moulay Idriss, Fez, and Marrakech, from the Atlantic coast to the high Atlas. Along the w...
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Author: Simon Armitage
Author Simon Armitage
Narrator Simon Armitage
Duration 8h 45m
One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back. However, he resolved to tackle it back to front, walking home towards the Yorkshire village where he was born, travelling as a 'modern troubadour', without a penny in his pockets...
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Author: Clara Parkes
Author Clara Parkes
Narrator Clara Parkes
Duration 6h 40m
Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty New York Times bestselling memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite listeners and devoted crafters on excursions to be sa...
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Author: Raynor Winn
Author Raynor Winn
Narrator Anne Reid
Duration 11h 1m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, read by Anne Reid. Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South Wes...
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Author: Michael Williams
Author Michael Williams
Narrator Michael Tudor Barnes
Duration 7h 33m
This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and r...
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Author: Bruce Henderson
Author Bruce Henderson
Narrator John Pruden
Duration 9h 9m
Bruce Henderson brings to life one of the most mysterious tragedies of American exploration in Fatal North.
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Author: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 11h 5m
In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic. It was broken at the stern and covered in a woolly coat of underwater vegetation. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half. Its name was HMS Erebus. Now Michael Palin - former Monty Python stal...
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Author: Sue Perkins
Author Sue Perkins
Narrator Sue Perkins
Duration 8h 43m
When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it - every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say 'Why is our house full of this shit?' Sadly, a recy...
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Author: Sue Perkins
Author Sue Perkins
Narrator The Authors
Duration 1h 50m
Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins offer you more than your fair share of laughs, songs and silliness in their imaginatively titled BBC Radio 4 series.
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