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One's Company
- A Journey to China in 1933
- By: Peter Fleming
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Story13
Catching all the fascination and humour of travel in out-of-the-way places, One's Company is Peter Fleming's account of his journey through Russia and Manchuria to China when he was Special Correspondent to The Times in the 1930s. Fleming spent seven months with the "object of investigating the Communist situation in South China" at a time when, as far as he knew, "no previous journey had been made to the anti-communist front by a foreigner", and on its publication in 1934, One's Company won widespread critical acclaim.
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A compelling narrative of 1930's China
- By C. D. Hough on 11-07-22
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One's Company
- A Journey to China in 1933
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 30-08-12
- Language: English
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The Dark Tourist
- Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations
- By: Dom Joly
- Narrated by: Dom Joly
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall174
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Performance161
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Story161
Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection - the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home.
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One of the few comedians that makes me laugh out loud
- By SL on 29-10-21
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The Dark Tourist
- Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations
- Narrated by: Dom Joly
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Pies and Prejudice
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Abridged
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Overall259
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Performance192
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Story191
A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.
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The best ever
- By Adrian on 31-01-10
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Pies and Prejudice
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-02-09
- Language: English
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Where's the Next Shelter?
- By: Gary Sizer
- Narrated by: Gary Sizer
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance100
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Story99
Where's the Next Shelter? is the true story of three travelers on the Appalachian Trail, a 2,000-mile hike that stretches from Georgia to Maine, told from the perspective of Gary Sizer, a seasoned backpacker and former marine who quickly finds himself humbled by the endeavor. If you long for the horizon or to sleep under the stars, then come along for the hike of a lifetime. All you have to do is take the first step.
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Great story of a walk
- By Mr on 04-04-22
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Where's the Next Shelter?
- Narrated by: Gary Sizer
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 16-05-16
- Language: English
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Journey Without Maps
- By: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually uncharted republic on the shores of West Africa. This captivating account of his arduous 350-mile journey on foot - a great adventure which took him from the border with Sierra Leone to the Atlantic coast at Grand Bassa - is as much a record of one young man's self-discovery as it is a striking insight into one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. Journey Without Maps is regarded as a masterclass in travel writing.
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Fascinating
- By Leonard Turton on 22-08-22
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Journey Without Maps
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-12-20
- Language: English
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- By: John Steinbeck, Richard Astro - introduction
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance17
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Story17
Brought to you by Penguin. In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in SEA OF CORTEZ, published in 1941. The...
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The eulogy at the end is a work of marvel
- By Maria on 26-12-23
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone
- A History
- By: Richard J. King
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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Story13
Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is an adventure at odds with our normal, sociable lives, carried out floating on a medium wholly inimical to our existence. But the deep ocean is also a remarkable place on which to think. Richard King's enormously engaging and curious book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone.
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A complete review of solo sailing
- By GrahamC on 18-07-24
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Sailing Alone
- A History
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-09-23
- Language: English
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Why the Dutch Are Different
- A Journey into the Hidden Heart of The Netherlands: From Amsterdam to Zwarte Piet, the Acclaimed Guide to Travel in Holland
- By: Ben Coates
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance46
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Story46
Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the first audiobook to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one of the world's smallest countries is also so significant and so fascinating.
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Go Dutch!
- By Mrs on 24-11-21
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Why the Dutch Are Different
- A Journey into the Hidden Heart of The Netherlands: From Amsterdam to Zwarte Piet, the Acclaimed Guide to Travel in Holland
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
- Reflections on Then and Now
- By: Peter Mayle
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance75
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Story75
From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible...
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narration
- By Lyn D on 29-12-19
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
- Reflections on Then and Now
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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Attention All Shipping
- By: Charlie Connelly
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Abridged
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Overall67
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Performance46
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Story46
The solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s, it has inspired poems, songs, and novels, in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and gales. In Attention All Shipping, Charlie Connelly wittily explores the places behind the voice, those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography.
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Fantastic
- By Bob Skittles on 26-10-20
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Attention All Shipping
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-02-07
- Language: English
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Last Days of the Bus Club
- By: Chris Stewart
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance93
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Story92
It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in southern Spain and his daughter Chlöe is preparing to leave for university. We find Chris, a local literary celebrity, using his fame to help his old sheep-shearing partner find work on a raucous road trip...
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Sublime story telling
- By Jodie Holyoak on 23-02-23
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Last Days of the Bus Club
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-03-17
- Language: English
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Scribbling the Cat
- Travels with an African Soldier
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance29
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Story29
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger". Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war.
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As an ex-Rhodie, both Northern and Southern ....
- By Amanda on 05-07-15
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Scribbling the Cat
- Travels with an African Soldier
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 20-05-04
- Language: English
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Long Way Down
- By: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman
- Narrated by: Mark Bonnar, Rupert Degas
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall126
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Performance88
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Story90
After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to go back and experience this extraordinary continent in more depth.
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A light boys book - but an annoying voice
- By Stephen on 06-06-08
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Long Way Down
- Narrated by: Mark Bonnar, Rupert Degas
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-11-07
- Language: English
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Adventures in Morocco
- From the Souks to the Sahara
- By: Alice Morrison
- Narrated by: Alice Morrison
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Story14
When Alice Morrison headed out to Morocco, it was to take on one of the most daunting challenges: to run in the famous Marathon des Sables. Little did she expect to end up living there. But once she settled in a flat in Marrakech, she was won over by the people, the spectacular scenery and the ancient alleyways of the souks. Soon she was hiking over the Atlas Mountains, joining nomads to sample their timeless way of life as they crossed the Sahara desert, and finding peace in a tranquil oasis.
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A wonderful way to discover Morocco
- By Jimintherookery on 13-03-26
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Adventures in Morocco
- From the Souks to the Sahara
- Narrated by: Alice Morrison
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-10-22
- Language: English
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Je t'aime à La Folie
- By: Michael Wright
- Narrated by: Michael Wright
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance44
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Story44
Three years into his solo adventure in rural France, Michael Wright believes he has everything he ever wanted: a ramshackle house, several manly power tools, a cat, a grand piano and a vintage aircraft. Three unfulfilled wishes from his childhood begin to haunt him. He wants to grow one perfect potato. He wants to know how it feels to fly a Spitfire. And, more than anything, he wants to meet his soulmate.
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Beautiful listening, could listen again easily.
- By Sheila V. on 06-07-13
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Je t'aime à La Folie
- Narrated by: Michael Wright
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 26-01-11
- Language: English
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Northbound
- By: Naomi Arnold
- Narrated by: Naomi Arnold
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Alone in the wilderness Shortlisted for the General Nonfiction Award at the 2026 Ockham Book Awards 2026 Book Industry Awards NZ Audiobook of the Year Finalist Award-winning journalist Naomi Arnold spends nearly nine months walking the length of New Zealand on Te Araroa, fulfilling a 20-year...
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A journey you live through listening
- By Kitkat on 21-02-26
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Northbound
- Narrated by: Naomi Arnold
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 16-04-25
- Language: English
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On The Slow Train
- Twelve Great British Railway Journeys
- By: Michael Williams
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Brought to you by Penguin. Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU This audiobook will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying...
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So interesting
- By Maxie's Daddy on 10-06-25
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On The Slow Train
- Twelve Great British Railway Journeys
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 25-10-21
- Language: English
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Skyfaring
- By: Mark Vanhoenacker
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance109
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Story108
In Skyfaring, airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying on a journey from day to night, from new ways of mapmaking and the poetry of physics to the names of winds and the nature of clouds. Here, anew, is the simple wonder and transcendent joy of motion and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love.
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How can such a fascinating subject be so dull....
- By jonathan on 18-09-17
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Skyfaring
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-04-15
- Language: English
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A Course Called America
- Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
- By: Tom Coyne
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Overall18
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Performance15
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Globe-trotting golfer Tom Coyne has finally come home. And he’s ready to play all of it. After playing hundreds of courses overseas in the birthplace of golf, Coyne, the bestselling author of A Course Called Ireland and A Course Called Scotland, returns to his own...
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Another Great Golf Book
- By "haddockboy" on 25-11-22
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A Course Called America
- Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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Into Iraq
- By: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance82
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Story82
Brought to you by Penguin. In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. It was a...
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The usual amazing stuff from Michael
- By Joe Fawley on 28-01-23
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Into Iraq
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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