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The Observant Walker
- Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain
- By: John Wright
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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John Wright has been leading forays around Britain for decades. As an expert forager, he shows people how to identify the edible species that abound—but he also reveals the natural history, stories and science behind our surroundings. Here, he takes us with him on eight walks: from verdant forests to wild coastlines, via city pavements, fields and rolling hills, he illuminates what can be found on a walk across any British terrain, and how you might observe and truly understand them, for yourself.
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Great book
- By james walter on 15-01-25
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The Observant Walker
- Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Challenging the Pacific
- The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route
- By: Maud Fontenoy
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance37
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Named one of Time Magazine International's 30 most important people of 2005, Maud Fontenoy presents us with a terrific, entertaining adventure story on the high seas as she challenges the Pacific Ocean - a feat no woman before her ever accomplished. Already the first woman to row alone across the North Atlantic, Maud raised the bar to defy the elements, the daunting solitude, and the circling sharks of the South Pacific on her second solo voyage.
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gripping and beautiful
- By Amazon Customer on 07-07-17
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Challenging the Pacific
- The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-02-13
- 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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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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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
- Lemons Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Chris Stewart
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance26
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Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. A man who flies to Spain, sees a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river and, with scarcely a second thought, hands over a cash deposit. And then finds he has acquired not just the farm, but the farmer, too, who has no intention of leaving. Not to mention the lack of running water, electricity or even a bridge.
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Charmimg tale of life in Rural Spain
- By Anonymous on 15-01-25
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
- Lemons Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Series: Lemons Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-10-24
- 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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Overall61
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Performance53
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Story52
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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Stories of Scotland
- By: Carrying Stream
- Original Recording
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Overall2
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Stories of Scotland is an award-winning Scottish history podcast. Join hosts Jenny and Annie as they unravel the rich tapestry of Scotland’s culture, nature and heritage. Prepared to climb into caves, cairns and chaos, Jenny and Annie travel around Scotland and investigate how stories of the past can help us make sense of modern life.Stories of Scotland celebrates Scottish history through traditional storytelling, archival research, museum objects and wandering in nature. It is recorded in Inverness & hosted by Jenny, an environmental scientist & Annie, an archivist. Hosted on Acast. See ...
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Very informative and entertaining
- By andy parahandy on 21-04-25
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The Postal Paths
- Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Trails And The People Who Walked Them
- By: Alan Cleaver
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Postal paths span the length and breadth of Britain - from the furthermost corners of the Outer Hebrides to the isolated communities clinging to the cliffs of the Rame Peninsula in south-east Cornwall. For over 200 years, postmen and women have delivered post to homes across Britain on foot, no matter how remote. A chance remark by a farmer about a Postman's Path led Alan Cleaver on a quest to discover more about this network of lanes, short-cuts and footpaths in the British landscape.
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Fascinating Paths
- By S Smith on 03-02-26
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The Postal Paths
- Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Trails And The People Who Walked Them
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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Overnight
- Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark
- By: Dan Richards
- Narrated by: Dan Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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There is something special about the night. For many, just the idea of it conjures thoughts of starlit skies, romance, refuge, of being tucked up in bed. For some, the night means fear, vulnerability, danger, sleeplessness. For others still, nightfall signals the start of work. At night things go bump, monsters hide under beds, owls take wing and foxes prowl. Overnight is a celebration of all things nocturnal, of those who labour while the rest of us sleep: the bakers, health workers, sailors, couriers, broadcasters, drivers, fishers, the men and women of the emergency services and more.
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Loved it and Dans voice
- By Amazon Customer on 10-06-25
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Overnight
- Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark
- Narrated by: Dan Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-03-25
- 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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OK
- By Alex on 03-10-15
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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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Sailing Alone Around the World
- By: Joshua Slocum
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance14
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Story15
Joshua Slocum was believed to be the first man to sail single-handed around the world. After a distinguished career, where he worked his way up from cabin boy to captain, Joshua Slocum wrecked his ship off the coast of Brazil. Turning this catastrophe to his advantage, he built a sailing canoe from the wreckage and sailed back to New York. Moreover, he wrote Voyage of the Liberdad, a chronicle of his trip, and earned some literary success.
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What A Lovely Book
- By Willy T on 06-06-24
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Sailing Alone Around the World
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-12-04
- Language: English
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Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
- By: Dave Gorman
- Narrated by: Dave Gorman
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall148
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Performance113
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If someone called you a "googlewhack", what would you do? Would you end up playing table tennis with a nine year-old boy in Boston? Would you find yourself in Los Angeles wrangling snakes, or would you go to China to be licked by a performance artist? If your name is Dave Gorman, then all of these things could be true.
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Truely Brilliant!
- By Andrew Stilliard on 22-05-16
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Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
- Narrated by: Dave Gorman
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-09-05
- Language: English
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- By: Michael Booth
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall140
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Performance119
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There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.
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Extensive research and consultation of a cross-section of society
- By S. Todd on 01-05-25
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 14-04-20
- Language: English
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The Wayfarer
- Through the Pain. Towards Redemption. Along the Pennine Way.
- By: Andy Kind
- Narrated by: Andy Kind
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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In May 2021, Andy Kind set off from Edale in an attempt to walk the Peninne Way, something he had tried–and failed–to do twice before. From Derbyshire to Scotland, struggling against the weather and terrain and hindered both by himself and others, we follow his journey towards what he hopes will not just be an ending, but a redemption.
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Made me laugh and cry and inspired me to walk more
- By Kate O on 15-04-26
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The Wayfarer
- Through the Pain. Towards Redemption. Along the Pennine Way.
- Narrated by: Andy Kind
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-11-25
- Language: English
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High Caucasus
- A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
- By: Tom Parfitt
- Narrated by: Tom Parfitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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On 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand people captive at a school in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. Working as a correspondent, Tom Parfitt witnessed the bloody climax in which 314 hostages died, more than half of them children. The experience left Tom emotionally shredded, struggling to find a way to return to his life in Moscow and put to rest the ghosts of the Beslan siege. Having long been fascinated by the mountainous North Caucasus, Tom turned to his love of walking as a source of both recuperation and discovery.
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Very poor Narration
- By NH on 28-07-24
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High Caucasus
- A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
- Narrated by: Tom Parfitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 20-07-23
- Language: English
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The White Road
- A pilgrimage of sorts
- By: Edmund de Waal
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance54
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A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain.
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Irritating
- By Elleff on 30-10-16
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The White Road
- A pilgrimage of sorts
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- 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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Overall6
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Performance6
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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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Great Book, Brilliantly Read
- By Gary on 12-05-26
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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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Eat, Pray, Love
- One Woman's Search for Everything (Abridged)
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Abridged
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Overall513
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Performance419
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It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her 30s, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.
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Just what you need ...
- By Jacqueline on 23-11-08
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Eat, Pray, Love
- One Woman's Search for Everything (Abridged)
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-11-08
- Language: English
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The Stopping Places
- By: Damian Le Bas
- Narrated by: Damian Le Bas
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall127
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Performance113
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Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in the ancient Romani language: the places her family stopped and worked, the ways they lived, the superstitions and lore of their people. But his own experience of life on the road was limited to Ford Transit journeys from West Sussex to Hampshire to sell flowers. In a bid to better understand his Gypsy heritage, the history of Britain's Romanies and the rhythms of their life today, Damian sets out on a journey to discover the atchin tans, or stopping places.
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probably my favourite audiobook ever
- By claire bell on 25-09-18
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The Stopping Places
- Narrated by: Damian Le Bas
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-09-18
- Language: English
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The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow
- By: A. J. Mackinnon
- Narrated by: A. J. Mackinnon
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand—a year later, I had reached Romania and was still going. Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea—4,900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope—through 12 countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates.
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A true adventure, excellently told.
- By PKay on 30-05-26
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The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow
- Narrated by: A. J. Mackinnon
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-07-22
- Language: English
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