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Chasing the Devil
- By: Tim Butcher
- Narrated by: Nick McArdle
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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For many years Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through. With their wars officially over, Tim Butcher sets out on a journey across both countries, trekking for 350 miles through remote rainforest and malarial swamps, pursuing a trail blazed by Graham Greene in 1935. Weaving history and anthropology with personal narrative - as well as new discoveries about Greene - it is as exciting as it is enlightening.
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Another excellent read
- By Emma M on 24-01-15
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Chasing the Devil
- Narrated by: Nick McArdle
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-01-11
- Language: English
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The Complete John Muir Collection
- My First Summer in the Sierra, Our National Parks, the Yosemite, a Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, Travels in Alaska, Stickeen, the Mountains of California, and More
- By: John Muir
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 69 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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With his characteristic blend of scientific insight, personal biography, and poetic narrative, The Complete John Muir Collection is a fascinating audiobook for nature lovers, hiking enthusiasts, conservationists, and anyone passionate about the rich history behind America’s most beloved national park.
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The Complete John Muir Collection
- My First Summer in the Sierra, Our National Parks, the Yosemite, a Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, Travels in Alaska, Stickeen, the Mountains of California, and More
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 69 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-09-25
- Language: English
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The Shark and the Albatross
- Travels with a Camera to the Ends of the Earth
- By: John Aitchison
- Narrated by: John Aitchison
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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For 20 years John Aitchison has been travelling the world to film wildlife for the BBC and other broadcasters, taking him to faraway places on every continent. The Shark and the Albatross is the story of these journeys of discovery, of his encounters with animals and occasional enterprising individuals in remote and sometimes dangerous places.
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Brilliant insight to wildlife and film-making.
- By M.Fletcher on 05-04-16
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The Shark and the Albatross
- Travels with a Camera to the Ends of the Earth
- Narrated by: John Aitchison
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Hope and Glory
- The Days That Made Britain
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall223
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Performance162
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In Hope and Glory, Stuart goes in search of the places, people and events of the century we have just left behind that have shaped the look and character of modern Britain. From the death of Victoria to the demise of New Labour, he takes a single event from each decade of the 20th century that offers up a defining moment in our history and then goes in search of its legacy today.
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The History they don't tell you about
- By Richard on 23-09-11
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Hope and Glory
- The Days That Made Britain
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-07-11
- Language: English
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The Magnetic North
- By: Sara Wheeler
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance7
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Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controversy. A fascinating combination of history, science and reflection in which Wheeler meditates on the role of the Arctic and how it has been changed by man.
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The Magnetic North
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-01-11
- Language: English
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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- By: David Roberts
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall177
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Performance160
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On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone. Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizable, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?"
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Don't bother!
- By birdie on 23-11-14
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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-01-13
- Language: English
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Macabre London
- By: Macabre London Podcast
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Do you like your history haunted? Then Macabre London is the podcast for you. Every fortnight we'll unravel a tale that's gruesome, horrifying or downright macabre. Get bonus content on Patreon (https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/806851) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Camino de Santiago Pilgrims' Podcast (monthly)
- By: Bradley Chermside
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Want to know your fellow peregrinos' favourite places to eat, sleep and visit when walking the Camino de Santiago? Need packing tricks, training tips, help with choosing footwear and lots more vital information to help you prepare for your pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela? Find out in these episodes and interviews with pilgrims who've walked the way, the fabled, Road to Santiago. Your host is Bradley Chermside, author of international bestselling Camino de Santiago memoir, The Only Way Is West. !Buen Camino!
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Out Alive from Backpacker
- By: Backpacker Magazine
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Raging rivers, hungry bears, huge avalanches—no matter how prepared you are, a walk in the woods can go from innocent to disastrous in the blink of an eye. Out Alive is a podcast series about real people who survived the unsurvivable. Each survivor takes you through what happened, from the packing mistakes to the missed signals to the plain bad luck, while experts and witnesses weigh in on how things went wrong.
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Hauntings
- A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find Them Across 25 Eerie British Locations
- By: Neil Oliver
- Narrated by: Neil Oliver
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall121
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Performance107
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Brought to you by Penguin. For longer than recorded history there have been tales of spirits and of places where our hackles rise and our skin turns cold. Bestselling historian Neil Oliver travels the British Isles on a deliciously spine-chilling tour that spans several centuries and explores...
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Too much history
- By David on 10-05-24
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Hauntings
- A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find Them Across 25 Eerie British Locations
- Narrated by: Neil Oliver
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-10-23
- Language: English
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All the Wide Border
- Wales, England and the Places Between
- By: Mike Parker
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England–Wales border: Britain’s deepest faultline. There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; on the other England...
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Politically motivated and condescending
- By Ben Llewellyn on 18-09-24
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All the Wide Border
- Wales, England and the Places Between
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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You Deserve Good Gelato
- Reasons to Travel the World, Embrace Failure, and Do the Sh*t That Scares You
- By: Kacie Rose
- Narrated by: Kacie Rose
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance18
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In her inimitably funny and feel-good way, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad in You Deserve Good Gelato, covering everything from travel fails and homesickness to the joy of culture shocks and the power of doing the s*** that scares you. Because life is too short not to.
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Motivating, warm and interesting!!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-06-24
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You Deserve Good Gelato
- Reasons to Travel the World, Embrace Failure, and Do the Sh*t That Scares You
- Narrated by: Kacie Rose
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 28-05-24
- Language: English
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Long Road from Jarrow
- A journey through Britain then and now
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall232
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Performance216
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In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie walks from north to south, retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade. Following history's footsteps, Maconie is in search of what modern Britain is really like today.
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Fabulous, edgy recreation of the Jarrow March
- By Mr SA Lambe on 27-08-17
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Long Road from Jarrow
- A journey through Britain then and now
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-07-17
- Language: English
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On the Hippie Trail
- Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
- By: Rick Steves
- Narrated by: Rick Steves
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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A 2026 Audie Awards Finalist! Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail. In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu...
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A lovely listen
- By Johnathan Jones on 25-07-25
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On the Hippie Trail
- Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
- Narrated by: Rick Steves
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-02-25
- Language: English
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Three Ways to Capsize a Boat
- An Optimist Afloat
- By: Chris Stewart
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In a series of madcap and hilarious adventures we follow Chris from a shaky start in Chichester harbour to his epic Odyssey to Spetses (a bucket would have been handy), and then on to the journey of a lifetime - battening down the hatches on a trip across the North Atlantic. It's a journey crackling with Chris's zest for life, irresistible humour, and unerring lack of foresight. Dry land never looked more welcoming.
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How to overcome adversity with humour!
- By Zurich fan on 27-03-26
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Three Ways to Capsize a Boat
- An Optimist Afloat
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-10-24
- Language: English
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To a Mountain in Tibet
- By: Colin Thubron
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance17
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Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains – holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, it is claimed by myth to be the source of the universe created from cosmic waters and the mind of Brahma. Its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain has been ritually circled by Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims. Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lakes beneath the slopes of Kailas itself. His trek around the great mountain, revered by multitudinous others, awakes an inner landscape of solitude....
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poor
- By peter on 03-02-24
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To a Mountain in Tibet
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-09-11
- Language: English
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Two Years Before the Mast
- By: Richard Henry Dana
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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Performance19
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Richard Henry Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 aboard the brig Pilgrim on a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. Drawing from his journals, Two Years Before the Mast gives a vivid and detailed account, shrewdly observed and beautifully described, of a common sailor's wretched treatment at sea, and of a way of life virtually unknown at that time.
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Bit of a marathon but overall worthwhile.
- By Reluctant Sceptic on 04-09-22
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Two Years Before the Mast
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 29-11-06
- Language: English
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The Voyage: #1 - BVIs to Falmouth
- Oldmansailing, Book 4
- By: John Passmore
- Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This is what it is like to sail an ocean alone. Not the world-girdling marathon of the Southern Ocean racers or the “cruise in company” as part of a trade-wind rally, but what it is really like to set off for 3,496 miles from the British Virgin Islands to Falmouth in the UK, totally alone. That means no contact with the shore, no high-frequency radio or satphone. No weather forecasts, no texts from loved ones. No news…Just complete and uninterrupted isolation for 44 days. In other words, this is singlehanded ocean sailing at its purest: One man in a world shrunk to its bare essentials.
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Another good listen
- By Daniel Bray on 05-11-24
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The Voyage: #1 - BVIs to Falmouth
- Oldmansailing, Book 4
- Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
- Series: The Voyage, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-10-24
- Language: English
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Out of the Frying Pan
- Scenes from My Life
- By: Keith Floyd
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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Keith Floyd’s exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as bestselling author and as television presenter. But here, for the first time, he tells his own story – and it is full of surprises. An idiosyncratic, splendid autobiography of a well known...
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We all miss you floyd
- By Jim bottle and a cork on 07-09-15
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Out of the Frying Pan
- Scenes from My Life
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-02-10
- Language: English
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Holidays in Hell
- In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, 'What's Funny About This'
- By: P.J. O'Rourke
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Holidays in Hell follows P. J. O’Rourke on a global fun-finding mission to the most desperate places on the planet, from the bombed-out streets of Beirut to the stultifying blandness of Heritage USA. P.J.’s unforgettable adventures abroad include storming student protesters’ barricades in South Korea, interviewing Communist insurrectionists in the Philippines, and going undercover in Arab garb at Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock Mosque. Packed with P.J.’s classic riffs on everything from Polish nightlife under communism to Third World driving tips....
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Every sentence has to be a funny quote!
- By Lulwah on 16-02-17
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Holidays in Hell
- In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, 'What's Funny About This'
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 25-10-11
- Language: English
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