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Author: Victoria Wood
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Author Victoria Wood
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 51m
Victoria's irreverent pilgrimage takes her to key places around the world that also share her namesake, from Fort Victoria in Ghana, to Victoria, Nova Scotia, and finishing at Zambia's Victoria Falls. Victoria's adventure is fuelled by her fascination with the Queen Victoria - both her public and private persona. She explores how Victoria felt abou...
View BookMiles Ahead: A Cascades Collection of Travel Writing
Author: Wendy (ed.) Cooling
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Author Wendy (ed.) Cooling
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Duration 4h 10m
A selection of extracts from the most inspiring travel writing, chosen by Wendy Cooling, who is widely known and respected in schools for her work as a literary consultant. Includes national curriculum recommended writers, such as Michael Palin, Bill Bryson, Tony Hawks and Rory McLean.
View BookAuthor: William Dalrymple
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Author William Dalrymple
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 3h
In the summer of 1986, two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the Silk Road to their eventual destination.
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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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...
View BookAuthor: Raynor Winn
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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...
View BookA Close Shot With A Charge of Sixpence
Author: Sir Samuel Baker
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Author Sir Samuel Baker
Narrator Dinsdale Landen
Duration 17m
Sir Samuel White Baker, (b. 8 June 1821 - d. 30 December 1893) was a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. This account of a big game encounter is a thrilling testimony that relays the sights, smells and especially sounds of a nineteenth-century hunting experience.
View BookAuthor: Peter Fleming
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Author Peter Fleming
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 3h
Peter Fleming, brother of the author Ian, tells the story of his journey from England via the Trans-Siberian Express to China, and his subsequent attempts to become the first Westerner to reach the anti-communist front.
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 6h
Michael Palin is off to the Sahara Desert. From a starting point in Gibralter, he makes his way to Morocco, then over the Atlas Mountains to the little-known countries of Mauritiana, Mali and Chad. He journies on the longest train in the world and travels with nomadic herders, finally returning to the classical remains of Tunisia - where the Monty...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 10h 15m
Join the intrepid Michael Palin as he embarks on a comic race against time, travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole. As he crosses 16 countries by train, truck, raft, Ski-Doo, barge, balloon and bicycle, he experiences a fascinating range of characters and landscapes whilst his own endurance is tested to the limit.
View BookAuthor: Bruce Henderson
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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.
View BookAuthor: Michael Lewis
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Author Michael Lewis
Narrator Dylan Baker
Duration 7h 8m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour, Michael Lewis' brilliant tragi-comic romp across post-crash Europe. Read by the actor Dylan Baker. Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly...
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