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Taught by acclaimed Professor Patrick Allitt, a British-born scholar who teaches at Emory University, these 36 splendid lectures give you an insider’s take on traveling through Great Britain. Whether you are planning a week-long vacation, a month-long grand tour, or just want to experience England, Scotland, and Wales from afar, this immersive course takes you on a voyage through not only the most popular tourist sites but also a trove of “hidden gems” overlooked by the traditional guidebooks.

Gain the wine know-how you’ve always wanted in this comprehensive course. With thousands of wines on sale in the US today, choosing just the right one for each occasion can be a challenge even for the experienced. To help you master that challenge and deepen your appreciation of wine and its inexpressibly rich lore, Master of Wine Brian Wheaton recorded Understanding the World of Wine. Whether you're a seasoned oenophile or a beginner, you will discover new insights in this set of 36 easy-to-use audio lectures.

Why does anime make sense in an animist culture? How might Oscar Wilde reveal a culture too often associated with conformity? How can Japanese friends in a typical neighbourhood turn every stereotype on its head? His provocations may infuriate you - may even infuriate himself - Iyer confesses in his opening salvo, but maybe it’s only by setting its love hotels next to its baseball stadia, its wild fashions against its eighth-century values, that Japan can be made new again for both the first-time visitor and the jaded foreign resident.

Yellowstone is a land of extreme diversity. Nowhere else will you find wolves, bison, and grizzlies living among the largest concentration of hot springs and geysers in the world. The park’s 2.2 million acres is an incongruous landscape of bubbling hot, lunar-like geothermal features, lush green rolling meadowlands, snow covered mountain peaks, colorful canyons, waterfalls, lakes and untamed rivers. It is a park so large, so complex and so fascinating it seems fitting that it owns the title as our world’s first national park! Travel Audios’ park approved audio tour will help you understand what you are seeing and smelling! It is not a mile-by-mile guide; it can be listened to anywhere. It features an impressive group of knowledgeable Park Ranger geologists, biologists and naturalists who explain the geological processes that created the landscape and why this area in Wyoming is such a geothermal hot spot. They’ll tell you about their studies and observations of the park’s wildlife and their experience with massive forest fires.

From the Ancient Rome to the Baroque Rome, discover a city full of history and style! With CitySpeaker, visit Rome in total freedom. The Rome CitySpeaker Audio Guide features visits to all the major monuments and sites, walks in the most beautiful neighborhoods, and interviews on the history, the culture of Rome, and the everyday life of the Romans.

No visit to Sydney is complete without a trip to the historic Rocks district on the harbour foreshore. And no visit to the Rocks would be complete without this self-guided audio walk. The Rocks is the enclave where European Sydney had its beginnings. Here the first convicts were ordered to build their huts and here they worked the sandstone that made Australia's first buildings. This self-guided walk will take you to the places they lived and tell you their stories.

From the very select Mayfair district to the lively streets of Soho, visit the most cosmopolitan of European cities, in total freedom. The London CitySpeaker Audio Guide features 90 audio tracks including: visits of all the major monuments and sites, walks in the most beautiful neighborhoods and interviews on the history, the culture of London and the everyday life of the Londoners.

The Louvre is one of the largest museums ever built, and it is the most visited in the world. It hosts some of the most revered masterpieces from all history; it was home to kings and emperors, and it sits on legendary surroundings. Its riches are literally inhexaustible. This audiobook is designed to prepare your visit with the necessary elements for depth and meaning. It provides an overview of the history of the Louvre, which is itself a summary of the history of France. Each collection is then analyzed, with a highlight on the most interesting works of art. Each one of them will be presented in an original way, to help you appreciate its genuine importance and get the most pleasurable experience.

In Scotland's Clyde River Valley, not far from Glasgow, the industrial town of New Lanark was established in 1785. New Lanark was one of the largest cotton manufacturing centers in Great Britain, and a model for how employees, both adults and their children were treated by the companies they worked for. Today, New Lanark is a model of cultural heritage, preservation and restoration thanks to the New Lanark Conservation Trust. We are exploring the Village with Richard Evans, development officer for the trust.

Un guide culturel audio pour les curieux, les amateurs d'histoire et les voyageurs. Le parfait kit de découverte d'une région et de sa culture, à écouter depuis votre canapé, en voiture ou à l'hôtel ! Plongez dans le passé de la "vallée des rois" et découvrez les châteaux de la Loire, célèbres dans le monde entier : Chambord, Blois ou encore Chenonceau ne sont que les figures de proue d'une constellation d'édifices remarquables dont même les moins connus réservent leur lot de merveilles.

Praga, la Città Dorata, è famosa per le sue antiche tradizioni. A questo si deve, probabilmente, quell'aura positiva, misteriosa, magica e speciale...

Take to the streets with Robert Elms to explore Camden Town, an area famous for being different. Where music lives and markets thrive. A place where million pound houses can sit next to homeless shelters. Camden Town has many stories to tell; from its famous live music pubs to secret underground shelters. Get the ultimate guided tour of the area that will forever wear its heart proudly tattooed on its arm.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than a Tourist – Cairo Egypt by Gihan Amin offers the inside scoop on the city of Cairo.

The bustling streets of Brixton are full of music, art, markets, poets, radicals and preachers. Alex Wheatle, the Brixton Bard, takes you on a journey around the area he first discovered in the 1970's when it was vibrating with reggae baselines and the smog of uprising was in the air. Follow him through Brixton's legendary market and round its diverse and vibrant streets.

Audio Journeys explore ancient history and centuries-old structures inculding an anquduct, and view new and old art. We visit a lapidary specializing in local gems.

Offering the inside scoop on The Magdalen Islands, this travel guide will give you tips and ideas from someone who lives at your next travel destination. You'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your stay. Travel like a local. Get the inside scoop. Slow down, stay in one place, take your time, and get to know the people and the culture of a place.

This audio program will help you plan and enjoy a hassle-free vacation to the northern European country of Iceland.

John Wesley Powell described the Grand Canyon as “the great unknown.” Today, as you peer into its chasm from almost any vantage point on the rim, it appears so enormous, so remote and severe, it seems that no one could ever know it. But the stunning views from the rim of Grand Canyon National Park are only the beginning of the story. This tour will tell you the rest!

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Manchester. Greater Than a Tourist - Manchester United Kingdom by Adam Fraiel offers the inside scoop on Cottonopolis. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Audio Journeys are exploring the National Civil Rights Museum Memphis Tennesse. Forty-one years ago on April 4 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated as he was leaving the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee to join the city's sanitation workers' striking for better working conditions and pay.