Listen free for 30 days
-
The Holy Land
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Anthropology
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Listen with a free trial
Buy Now for £10.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
How an Average Man Lived an Adventurous Life
- By: John Linnemeier
- Narrated by: Jacques Linnemeier, John Linnemeier, Eric Rensberger
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The stories in this book are all true. Its author has been held up at gunpoint at night on a road in Guatemala and shot with a machine gun in the chest and shoulder in Vietnam. He's come close to dying of thirst in the Sahara and freezing to death in the Himalayas. He's contracted malaria and typhoid fever in Ethiopia and hepatitis in India. There have been accidents involving motorcycles and automobiles. He's had close calls involving lions (twice), elephants (three times) and a rhino (once).
-
-
Average American's 100 places to see before you die
- By Mr Chops on 21-08-17
-
The Accidental Feminist
- The Life of One Woman Through War, Motherhood, and International Photojournalism
- By: Toby Molenaar
- Narrated by: Daniel Joanna
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time—photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army and she is literally left to starve. As a little girl, she learns to be self-sufficient—survival is the order of the day. Courage, indomitable spirit, an open mind, and accountability only to herself are the stuff of this fascinating and inspirational story.
-
Travelling Light
- By: Robyn Davidson
- Narrated by: Amanda Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It'd been a long time since I claimed some solitude in this blessed landscape; since I've done without life's little props. Here I have no friend, no dog, no radio, no clock, no phone, no roof, no body pollutants. The clackety-clack of the typewriter travels out into the valley and gets lost in expanses of forest and paperbark swamp. I'm the only soul around. For 10 years Robyn Davidson has been travelling light. Across the desert, across America on a Harley-Davidson, or walking through the bush of ghosts by night.
-
Lights, Camera, Jemuru
- Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia
- By: Bob Maddams
- Narrated by: David Seys
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lights, Camera Jemuru - Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia is the remarkable true-life story of a high-flying adman who swapped his expense account lifestyle in London to go and teach in a back-street community film school, Gem TV, in Addis Ababa. Bob Maddams spent years living and working in Ethiopia and filming took him and the Gem TV filmmakers all over the country; from shanty towns and famine feeding stations to the rock hewn churches of Lalibela and the source of the Blue Nile.
-
Pulphead
- Essays
- By: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us - with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own - how we really (no, really) live now.
-
Sicilian Splendors
- Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart
- By: John Keahey
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From Palermo to Castiglione di Sicilia to Alimena, Sicily holds great secrets from the past and unspoken promises. Now, slowly shaking itself free of the Mafia, Sicily is opening itself up to visitors in ways it never has before. Sicilian Splendors explores the history, politics, food, Mafia, and people which John Keahey encounters throughout his travels during his return to Sicily. Through conversing with natives and immersing himself in culture, Keahey illustrates a brand new Sicily no one has ever talked about before.
-
-
Interesting book, spoiled by narration
- By Mr N T Whitley on 05-09-20
-
How an Average Man Lived an Adventurous Life
- By: John Linnemeier
- Narrated by: Jacques Linnemeier, John Linnemeier, Eric Rensberger
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The stories in this book are all true. Its author has been held up at gunpoint at night on a road in Guatemala and shot with a machine gun in the chest and shoulder in Vietnam. He's come close to dying of thirst in the Sahara and freezing to death in the Himalayas. He's contracted malaria and typhoid fever in Ethiopia and hepatitis in India. There have been accidents involving motorcycles and automobiles. He's had close calls involving lions (twice), elephants (three times) and a rhino (once).
-
-
Average American's 100 places to see before you die
- By Mr Chops on 21-08-17
-
The Accidental Feminist
- The Life of One Woman Through War, Motherhood, and International Photojournalism
- By: Toby Molenaar
- Narrated by: Daniel Joanna
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time—photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army and she is literally left to starve. As a little girl, she learns to be self-sufficient—survival is the order of the day. Courage, indomitable spirit, an open mind, and accountability only to herself are the stuff of this fascinating and inspirational story.
-
Travelling Light
- By: Robyn Davidson
- Narrated by: Amanda Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It'd been a long time since I claimed some solitude in this blessed landscape; since I've done without life's little props. Here I have no friend, no dog, no radio, no clock, no phone, no roof, no body pollutants. The clackety-clack of the typewriter travels out into the valley and gets lost in expanses of forest and paperbark swamp. I'm the only soul around. For 10 years Robyn Davidson has been travelling light. Across the desert, across America on a Harley-Davidson, or walking through the bush of ghosts by night.
-
Lights, Camera, Jemuru
- Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia
- By: Bob Maddams
- Narrated by: David Seys
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lights, Camera Jemuru - Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia is the remarkable true-life story of a high-flying adman who swapped his expense account lifestyle in London to go and teach in a back-street community film school, Gem TV, in Addis Ababa. Bob Maddams spent years living and working in Ethiopia and filming took him and the Gem TV filmmakers all over the country; from shanty towns and famine feeding stations to the rock hewn churches of Lalibela and the source of the Blue Nile.
-
Pulphead
- Essays
- By: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us - with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own - how we really (no, really) live now.
-
Sicilian Splendors
- Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart
- By: John Keahey
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From Palermo to Castiglione di Sicilia to Alimena, Sicily holds great secrets from the past and unspoken promises. Now, slowly shaking itself free of the Mafia, Sicily is opening itself up to visitors in ways it never has before. Sicilian Splendors explores the history, politics, food, Mafia, and people which John Keahey encounters throughout his travels during his return to Sicily. Through conversing with natives and immersing himself in culture, Keahey illustrates a brand new Sicily no one has ever talked about before.
-
-
Interesting book, spoiled by narration
- By Mr N T Whitley on 05-09-20
-
A Nurse Abroad
- By: Anne Watts
- Narrated by: Nerys Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager to use her skills and with an adventurous spirit. At the first opportunity she set sail for Canada, to work in the remote stations in the frozen north of the country. She found a placement easily, one of only a couple of women to work among the indigenous peoples, who were then called Eskimos. Anne later headed for Alice Springs in the Australian outback.
-
-
globe trotting
- By Mrs. K. I. Richards on 03-02-15
-
In Manchuria
- A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
- By: Michael Meyer
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For three years Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown of his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights.
-
-
China's Northeast. An undiscovered gem
- By Adrian J. Smith on 17-09-17
-
My Life in Ruins
- By: Adam Ford
- Narrated by: Adam Ford
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Adam Ford is an archaeologist. Not only has he been on expeditions to unlock the mysteries of the past in the Caribbean, British Isles, Jordan, Syria, Israel, United Arab Emirates and Australia, he's also had heat stroke, hypothermia, and dysentery; been chased by camel spiders; been walked on by scorpions; and been pestered by bugs big enough to ride.
-
Chasing Utopia
- The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel
- By: David Leach
- Narrated by: Richard Clarkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Say the word Israel today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers' dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine? Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel draws listeners into the quest for answers to the defining political conflict of our era.
-
Off the Rails
- A Train Trip Through Life
- By: Beppe Severgnini
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains - and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity. Beppe Severgnini has spent his life traveling the world, and not just because he's a journalist; he's a passionate, unflagging train buff. Off the Rails recounts some of his favorite trips across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States, each journey bringing listeners not only to a different place but to a different time.
-
-
Captures the Romance of the Rails
- By Willie Stewart on 01-02-21
-
Kingdom of Olives and Ash
- Writers Confront the Occupation
- By: Michael Chabon - editor, Ayelet Waldman - editor, Colum McCann, and others
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride and Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.
-
Catch the Jew!
- By: Tuvia Tenenbom
- Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Catch the Jew! recounts the adventures of gonzo journalist Tuvia Tenenbom, who wanders around Israel and the Palestinian Authority for seven months in search of the untold truths in today's Holy Land. With holy chutzpah, Tenenbom boldly goes where no Jew has gone before, at times risking his life as he assumes the identities of Tobi the German and even Abu Ali in order to probe into the many stories in this strange land and poke holes in all of them.
-
-
Real stories for real men
- By Kindle Customer on 19-10-21
-
The 8.55 to Baghdad
- By: Andrew Eames
- Narrated by: Andrew Eames
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The author travels from London to Baghdad by train, following the route of an identical journey made by Agatha Christie in 1928. Many of the countries Eames passes through have been deeply troubled in recent years. Merging literary biography with travel adventure, The 8.55 to Baghdad is the journey of a lifetime.
-
-
Agatha...and beyond
- By Nordie on 03-09-10
-
The Emperor Far Away
- Travels at the Edge of China
- By: David Eimer
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shaghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage "the mountains are high and the Emperor far away", meaning Beijing's grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate.
-
-
Excellent Travel Memoir
- By Adrian J. Smith on 24-06-19
-
Step by Step
- The Life in My Journeys
- By: Simon Reeve
- Narrated by: Simon Reeve
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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.
-
-
A “ must read”
- By Liz Mitchinson on 17-09-18
-
Border
- By: Kapka Kassabova
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the border zone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing inwards toward the enemy: the holiday makers, the potential escapees. Today, this densely forested landscape is no longer heavily militarised, but it is scarred by its past.
-
-
A fascinating guide to this part of the work
- By Ed on 23-02-22
-
The Alps
- A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
- By: Stephen O'Shea
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For centuries the Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers - and some 14 million people live among their peaks today. In The Alps, Stephen O'Shea takes listeners up and down these majestic mountains, journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia.
Summary
In this current context of desperate geopolitical upheaval, there is no better time to address oneness, reconciliation and a statement of otherness beyond the limitations of contemporary media.
The Holy Land: Contemporary Visions and Scriptures seeks dialogue with ancient lands and sacred spaces along with modern visions of the people who inhabit them and the burgeoning contradictions of their daily lives. It attempts to address and liberate a complex, profound relationship between man and territory since the beginning of time, and nowhere is this dynamic more prescient than in the Holy Land.