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Author: Billy Connolly
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Author Billy Connolly
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 56m
When Billy set out from Glasgow as a young man he never looked back. He played his banjo on boats and trains, under trees, and on top of famous monuments. He danced naked in snow, wind and fire. He travelled by foot, bike, ship, plane, sleigh - even piggy-backed - to get to his next destination. Billy has wandered to every corner of the earth and b...
View BookAuthor: Robert Macfarlane
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Author Robert Macfarlane
Narrator Roy McMillan
Duration 10h 44m
In The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghost...
View BookAuthor: Simon Reeve
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Author Simon Reeve
Narrator Simon Reeve
Duration 10h 29m
TV documentary maker Simon Reeve has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the Kalahari, dived with manta rays, seals and sharks, survived malaria, walked through minefields, tracked lions on foot, been taught to fish by the President of Moldova, and detained for spying by the KGB. After a decade spent making more than 80 program...
View BookThe Road To Little Dribbling: More Notes From A Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
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Author Bill Bryson
Narrator Nathan Osgood
Duration 13h 30m
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now...
View BookAround the World In Eighty Days
Author: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 7h 37m
In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. He had to make the journey in 80 days - accompanied by a BBC film crew - using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. Their voyage took them from the opulence of the Orient Express to the ste...
View BookAuthor: Laurie Lee
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Author Laurie Lee
Narrator Wehltman Brian
Duration 4h 5m
At the age of 19 Laurie Lee had left home, walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain. Here he describes a return journey to Spain in which he crossed the Pyrenees during the time of the Spanish Civil War. This audiobook is on the Edexcel reading list for GCSE.
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 11h 32m
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history and exquisite sights, and talking to its diverse peoples, Palin fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many others. This au...
View BookThe Almond Blossom Appreciation Society
Author: Chris Stewart
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Author Chris Stewart
Narrator Chris Stewart
SeriesDriving Over Lemons, Book 3
Duration 7h 15m
This audiobook finds Chris and his family still at El Valero, their farm on the wrong side of the river in rural Andalucia. And life there continues in decidedly oddball fashion... When Chris arrived in the Alpujarras, fifteen years ago, he could never have imagined the locals would invite him to join an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society, or that...
View BookAuthor: Guy Grieve
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Author Guy Grieve
Narrator Glen Mccready
Duration 14h 32m
Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska. And just when he'd given up hope, the dream came true. Suddenly Guy was thrown into one of the harshest environments i...
View BookAuthor: Tim Cahill
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Author Tim Cahill
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 13h 43m
Tim Cahill sleeps with grizzly bears. He also treks with llamas, inches his way through the deepest cave in America, and assesses the cuteness quotient of giant clams in the South Pacific - all in the service of some of the most lively, nerve-wracking and outrageous travel writing of our time. From the wastes of Antarctica to the blazing oil fields...
View BookAuthor: Polly Evans
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Author Polly Evans
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 8h 33m
A comic account of the author's solo cycling trip across Spain. After working for four years at a leading London book publisher, Polly Evans moved to Hong Kong where she spent many happy hours as a senior editor on the city's biggest entertainment weekly. But fighting deadlines from a twizzly office chair and free use of the coffee machine seemed j...
View BookAuthor: Tim Cahill
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Author Tim Cahill
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 12h
Tim Cahill takes us to sites as far-flung as Saharan salt mines, the Congolese jungle, and Hanford, Washington, home of the largest toxic waste dump in the western hemisphere. He describes stalking the legendary Caspian tiger in the mountains bordering Iraq, slogging through a pitch-black Australian Eucalyptus forest to find the nocturnal platypus,...
View BookAuthor: Mark Tully
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Author Mark Tully
Narrator Mark Tully
Duration 2h 33m
A compilation of Mark Tully's acclaimed reports from India includes his specially recorded observations. Sir Mark Tully was the BBC's Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to 1994. He has become familiar to listeners around the world for his incisive and thought-provoking reports. On this special recording, he looks back at his career that coinc...
View BookAuthor: Suzanna Clarke
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Author Suzanna Clarke
Narrator Jacqueline Tong
Duration 7h 40m
When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated house in the Moroccan town of Fez, their friends thought they were mad. Located in a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, the house - a traditional riad - was beautiful but in desperate need of repair. Walls were in danger of collapse, the plumbing non-existent. While neither Suzanna nor her husban...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 5h 52m
Winner of a Silver Award for best Non-Fiction at the Spoken Word Awards 2005 Michael Palin reads his own entertainingly written account of his journey accross the countries of the Himalayas, accompanying a major BBC TV series in 2004. In his most challenging journey to date, Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth. I...
View BookAn Island Parish: A Summer On Scilly
Author: Nigel Farrell
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Author Nigel Farrell
Narrator Nigel Farrell
Duration 8h 36m
The Scilly Isles, one of the most remote parts of England, are in crisis. With the small population constantly leaving the islands for the mainland, those left behind are having to work harder and harder to make a living, and this summer is crunch time for many of them. Nigel Farrell is our guide through a community he has grown to know and love, f...
View BookAuthor: Bill Bryson
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Author Bill Bryson
Narrator William Roberts
Duration 10h 30m
Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country. A funny and analytical view of smalltown America.
View BookFull Circle: A Pacific Journey
Author: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 6h
In this account of Michael Palin's travel adventure for the BBC, he journeys for almost a year, covering 50,000 miles and all of the 18 countries that border the Pacific Ocean, encompassing a wide diversity of landscape, culture and people. The Pacific Rim is one of the world's most volatile areas, with economies that are expanding faster than anyw...
View BookTravels With A Donkey In the Cervennes
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Denis Lawson
Duration 3h
On 23rd September 1878, Stevenson set out on an 11 day tour of the Cervennes with his recalcitrant donkey, Modestine, following completion of his writings in the French town of Monastier. His natural affinity for France, his appreciation of its landscape, and his enthusiasm for the French way of life as well as his account of the conflict between t...
View BookAuthor: Alan Moorehead
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Author Alan Moorehead
Narrator Christopher Timothy
Duration 3h
Alan Moorehead, a widely respected reporter, earned his reputation as a war correspondent during the Second World War. 'No Room in the Ark' describes his journey from Johannesburg to Uganda, the Belgian Congo and Kenya. The main theme is the negative impact of civilisation on the wild animals of southern and eastern Africa.
View BookAuthor: Lawrence Durrell
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Author Lawrence Durrell
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 3h
'Bitter Lemons' is Durrell's paen to the beauty and mystery of Cyprus, from the romance of the characters living in Bellapaix where Durrell bought a house, to the beauty of the mountain ranges and the excitement of the slow but gradual uprising of the Greek Cypriots who are determined to achieve 'Enosis' - union with Greece and freedom from British...
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