Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Travel Writing & Commentary
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall374
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Performance309
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Story311
THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of...
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Are you an 8000 m mountain nerd?
- By Emma on 04-02-07
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-10-06
- Language: English
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Neither Here Nor There
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4
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Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz—also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods—he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp...
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Neither Here Nor There
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-12-99
- 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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Overall87
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Performance73
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Story73
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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The Braindead Megaphone
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"--not to mention an official...
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Wise and witty book to dip in and out of
- By Charlotte Wright on 28-12-21
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The Braindead Megaphone
- Narrated by: George Saunders
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 14-04-20
- Language: English
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Classic Krakauer
- "Mark Foo's Last Ride," "After the Fall," and Other Essays from the Vault
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a...
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Classic Krakauer
- "Mark Foo's Last Ride," "After the Fall," and Other Essays from the Vault
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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Eiger Dreams
- Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance97
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Story98
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. . In this collection of thirteen of his finest essays and reporting – including the essay, “Is Yosemite Going To The Dogs” – Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable...
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Step by step excitement
- By Amazon Customer on 16-06-19
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Eiger Dreams
- Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-11-17
- Language: English
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- By: Jonathan Meiburg
- Narrated by: Jonathan Meiburg
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story9
“Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart, curious, and social, it boggles the mind.”—Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Bird Way “A fascinating, entertaining, and totally engrossing story...
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Querky
- By veyza on 13-09-23
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Meiburg
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Knitlandia
- A Knitter Sees the World
- By: Clara Parkes
- Narrated by: Clara Parkes
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance52
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Story51
Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty New York Times bestselling memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal...
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Slowburn
- By nicola nicholson on 13-06-18
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Knitlandia
- A Knitter Sees the World
- Narrated by: Clara Parkes
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-06-16
- Language: English
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Beyond the Mountain
- By: Steve House, Reinhold Messner - introduction
- Narrated by: Steve House
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance54
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Story53
What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the...
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Great book and listen
- By Georgi Manchev on 29-08-24
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Beyond the Mountain
- Narrated by: Steve House
- Series: Patagonia
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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Eiger Dreams
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Abridged
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Overall37
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Performance27
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Story27
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's...
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Brilliant
- By Anonymous on 22-11-23
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Eiger Dreams
- Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 15-12-99
- Language: English
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A Walk in the Woods
- Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Overall2
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Performance1
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body “The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times Back in...
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A Walk in the Woods
- Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 15-12-99
- Language: English
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Life Lived Wild
- Adventures at the Edge of the Map
- By: Rick Ridgeway
- Narrated by: Rick Ridgeway
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance23
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Story23
A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild. At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in...
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Heartwarming and exhilarating
- By Chris Jowett on 28-11-25
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Life Lived Wild
- Adventures at the Edge of the Map
- Narrated by: Rick Ridgeway
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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Under the Tuscan Sun
- By: Frances Mayes
- Narrated by: Frances Mayes
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Abridged
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Overall51
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Performance31
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Story30
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword “This beautifully written memoir about taking...
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Under the Tuscan Sun
- By Kieren on 12-01-06
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Under the Tuscan Sun
- Narrated by: Frances Mayes
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 15-12-99
- Language: English
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Confederates in the Attic
- Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: Arthur Addison
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches...
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Helps understand Trumpism
- By Mary Carnegie on 11-03-21
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Confederates in the Attic
- Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- Narrated by: Arthur Addison
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 19-11-13
- Language: English
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Paddling North
- A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage
- By: Audrey Sutherland
- Narrated by: Mapuana Makia
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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An Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy "Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now" In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake...
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Talk about intrepid!
- By DrAnderson on 05-12-25
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Paddling North
- A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage
- Narrated by: Mapuana Makia
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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A Pirate Looks at Fifty
- By: Jimmy Buffett
- Narrated by: Don Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jimmy Buffett offers his philosophy on life and how to live it, “like sitting with Buffett at a beachside bar, listening to him spin tales” (Time). “Buffett took his family on a three-week trek around the Caribbean...
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A Pirate Looks at Fifty
- Narrated by: Don Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-09-25
- Language: English
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Solo: My Year of Backpacking and Unpacking
- My Year of Backpacking and Unpacking
- By: Indrajeet More
- Narrated by: Meehir Kukreja
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Barely a year into college, nineteen-year-old Indrajeet More is offered to host a travel show on budget backpacking across India.As he undertakes a year-long journey across thirteen cities in India, what unfolds is a string of surreal life experiences—from getting lost in the forests of...
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Solo: My Year of Backpacking and Unpacking
- My Year of Backpacking and Unpacking
- Narrated by: Meehir Kukreja
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 02-09-25
- Language: English
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The Happiness of Pursuit
- Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
- By: Chris Guillebeau
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance36
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A remarkable guide to the quests that give our lives meaning—and how to find your own—from the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup and 100 Side Hustles “If you like complacency and mediocrity, do not read this book. It’s dangerously inspiring.”—A. J. Jacobs...
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what reason is there for going everywhere?
- By Daniel Joseph Sherburn on 17-06-15
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The Happiness of Pursuit
- Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-09-14
- Language: English
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Ed Viesturs
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Abridged
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Overall20
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Performance15
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of...
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Jaw dropping...
- By Anonymous on 19-06-20
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- Narrated by: Ed Viesturs
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 17-10-06
- Language: English
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A Season for That
- Lost and Found in the Other Southern France
- By: Steve Hoffman
- Narrated by: Steve Hoffman
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong. Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable...
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Boring
- By Matti on 08-12-24
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A Season for That
- Lost and Found in the Other Southern France
- Narrated by: Steve Hoffman
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
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