Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Walking the Bible Subtitle: An Illustrated Journey for Kids Through the Greatest Stories Ever Told Author: Bruce Feiler Narrator: Bruce Feiler Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 37 mins Language: English Release date: 09-30-04 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: From the base of Mount Ararat, where he meets a mysterious man who claims to have found Noah's ark, to the edge of the Dead Sea, where he climbs salt pillars in the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Feiler discovers that the Bible still lives in the landscape. He visits the desert outpost where Abraham first heard the words of God and has an unexpected encounter alongside the legendary burning bush. And finally he climbs Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. In each place, Feiler eloquently explores how geography affects the Bible and how his journey has influenced his faith. Walking the Bible is both a heart-pounding adventure and an uplifting personal quest that will forever change your view of some of history's most memorable events.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The First Love Story Subtitle: Adam, Eve, and Us Author: Bruce Feiler Narrator: Bruce Feiler Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins Language: English Release date: 03-21-17 Publisher: Penguin Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times best-selling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family, and togetherness. Since antiquity, one story has stood at the center of every conversation about men and women. One couple has been the battleground for human relationships and sexual identity. That couple is Adam and Eve. Yet instead of celebrating them, history has blamed them for bringing sin, deceit, and death into the world. In this fresh retelling of their story, New York Times columnist and PBS host Bruce Feiler travels from the Garden of Eden in Iraq to the Sistine Chapel in Rome, from John Milton's London to Mae West's Hollywood, discovering how Adam and Eve should be hailed as exemplars of a long-term, healthy, resilient relationship. At a time of discord and fear over the strength of our social fabric, Feiler shows how history's first couple can again be role models for unity, forgiveness, and love. Containing all the humor, insight, and wisdom that have endeared Bruce Feiler to people around the world, The First Love Story is an unforgettable journey that restores Adam and Eve to their rightful place as central figures in our culture's imagination and reminds us that even our most familiar stories still have the ability to surprise, inspire, and guide us today.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bizarre Truth Subtitle: How I Walked Out the Door Mouth First...and Came Back Shaking My Head Author: Andrew Zimmern Narrator: Andrew Zimmern Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins Language: English Release date: 09-08-09 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 62 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: For Zimmern, local cuisine - bizarre, gross, or downright stomach-turning as it may be to us - is not simply what's served at mealtime. It is a primary avenue to discovering what is most authentic - the bizarre truth - about cultures everywhere. Having eaten his way around the world over the course of four seasons of Bizarre Foods, Zimmern has now launched Bizarre Worlds, a new series on the Travel Channel, and this, his first book, a chronicle of his journeys as he not only tastes the "taboo treats" of the world, but delves deep into the cultures and lifestyles of far-flung locales and seeks the most prized of the modern traveler's goals: The Authentic Experience. Written in the smart, often hilarious voice he uses to narrate his TV shows, Zimmern uses his adventures in "culinary anthropology" to illustrate such themes as: why visiting local markets can reveal more about destinations than museums; the importance of going to "the last stop on the subway" - the most remote area of a place where its essence is most often revealed; the need to seek out and catalog "the last bottle of coca-cola in the desert", i.e. disappearing foods and cultures; the profound differences between dining and eating; and the pleasures of snout to tail, local, fresh and organic food. Zimmern takes listeners into the back of a souk in Morocco where locals are eating a whole roasted lamb; along with a conch fisherman in Tobago, who may be the last of his kind; and to Mississippi, where he dines on raccoon and possum.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The United States of Laughter Subtitle: One Comedian's Journey Through All 50 States Author: Andrew Tarvin Narrator: Andrew Tarvin Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 09-18-17 Publisher: CSz Insights Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: At the age of 31, Andrew Tarvin made the very practical decision to rid himself of most of his belongings, leave his Midtown apartment in NYC, and travel the country out of two carry-on bags. In 12 months, he traveled 92,358 miles, did 215 events, and spoke or performed in all 50 states (yes, even Wyoming). Along the way, he collected 50 stories from 50 states. Stories of adventure, like fending off a bear in Alaska, stories of deliciousness, like eating a Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo Burrito in Montana, and stories of people, like meeting his newest fan in Pringle, South Dakota, population: 112. Through his journey, he discovered that, despite what we may see on the news or read on the internet, there is one thing that unites all Americans: laughter. As he traveled around the country, he found connection through comedy and realized we are all more alike than we are different, no matter what state we call home.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Well at the World's End Subtitle: The Epic True Story of One Man's Search for the Secret to Eternal Youth Author: A. J. Mackinnon Narrator: Steve West Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 02-08-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: An old-fashioned quest by a modern-day adventurer. When A. J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the well at the worlds end, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to flyhe claims it would feel as though he were cheatinghe sets out with a backpack, some fireworks, and a map of the world and trusts that chance will take care of the rest. Traveling by land and sea, train, truck, horse, and yacht, Mackinnon travels across the world, getting caught up in a series of hilarious, sometimes surreal, adventures. He survives a near-fatal bus crash in Australia, accidentally marries a Laotian princess, is attacked by a Komodo dragon, and does time in a sketchy Chinese jail, among many other mishaps and misadventures along the way. Each new continent and each new mode of transport brings the possibility of a near-miss or happy accident, all on the quest for eternal youth. This is the astonishing true story of a remarkable voyage. Editorial Reviews: The Well at the World's End is a part of a rich tradition of picaresque travel writing; the only difference here is that A. J. Mackinnon's coming of age tale is a true story! Mackinnon's modern-day journey is filled with twists and turns as he attempts to complete his worldwide quest to discover a legendary Scottish pool believed to hold the secrets to eternal youth. His travels are only complicated by his refusal to travel by airplane! Listeners will especially appreciate Steve West's lively performance. His unique voice-acting abilities mesh perfectly with Machinnon's harrowing and often hilarious writing.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Keepers of the Story Author: Micah Springer Narrator: Micah Springer Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 12-28-17 Publisher: Vital Plume Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: In 1993, two young women, Micah and Kas, set out alone to backpack through Africa for nearly a year. They leap headlong into cultural misunderstanding, crocodiles, and corruption, imperiling their lives and testing their lucky stars. The Motherland unveils her deepest mysteries when Micah falls in love with a nomadic warrior and his rich tradition. Sex, alienation, danger, longing, unwritten languages, and moonlight dances become Micah's pathway to inner wisdom and the divine. This tribute to the Earth and the people who live in balance with nature welcomes us all to reclaim our place by our ancestors' fire. We are now and have always been the keepers of the story. Traditional singing included.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Greece & the Greek Islands Travel Guide Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive 5-Day Travel Guide to Greece and the Greek Islands & Unforgettable Greek Travel Author: Passport to European Travel Guides Narrator: Colin Fluxman Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 06-29-17 Publisher: Passport to European Travel Guides Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Journey to the center of Greece and the Greek Islands! "Greece is the most magical place on Earth." - Kylie Bax And a vacation in the Greek Islands will cast a magical spell it'll take you weeks to recover from! Passport to European Travel Guides offers this comprehensive, yet quick and concise, five-day guide to Greece - one of the most beautiful locales on Earth! Five-day travel guide to unforgettable Greek travel. Have no idea where to start? Or maybe you have some idea but could use a treasure trove of great insider tips? Well, read on! You see, we know your trip begins long before you even book the flight, so this guide is chock full of dynamite tips on everything you need to know before you go - and much, much more you'll thank us for! Passport to European Travel Guides features: Grab this awesome five-day guide to Greece now while you can!

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Himalaya Author: Michael Palin Narrator: Michael Palin Format: Abridged Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 04-15-05 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 151 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, in six months of hard traveling Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya including the Khyber Pass, the hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, ancient cities like Peshawar and Lahore, the mighty peaks of K2, Annapurna, and Everest, the bleak and barren plateau of Tibet, the gorges of the Yangtze, the tribal lands of the Indo-Burmese border, and the vast Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. He also passes through political flashpoints including Pakistan's remote north-west frontier, terrorist-torn Kashmir, and the mountains of Nagaland.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Made in Naples & the Amalfi Coast Subtitle: A Travel Guide to Cameos, Capodimonte, Coral Jewelry, Inlay, Limoncello, Maiolica, Nativities Papier-máché, & More Author: Laura Morelli Narrator: Laura Morelli Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 11-16-16 Publisher: Authentic Arts Publishing Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Every trip needs a souvenir. When you encounter limoncello, handmade cameos, or the famous nativities of Naples, Italy, you'll be tempted to take a part of this beautiful place home with you. But how do you know if you're buying something authentic or serving one of the region's many tourist traps? Author and art historian Laura Morelli is here to help. In Italy, it's not easy to tell the treasures from the trash. In this audiobook, Morelli leads you through the region's most authentic arts. By teaching you the difference between authentic master artisans and the knock-offs, Morelli will make you every tourist trap's worst nightmare: an educated buyer. Join Laura Morelli on a journey beyond the souvenir shops into an immersive cultural experience you won't find in any other guidebook. In this book, you'll discover: Laura Morelli is a trusted guide in the world of cultural travel and authentic shopping. If you like fascinating historical tidbits, comprehensive resources, and an immersive experience into the history of Italian art, then you'll love this fluidly written book. Bring Morelli's book alongside more traditional guidebooks on your vacation and you'll be sure to come back with the best of Italy in your suitcase! Download this book today to enjoy a richer experience in Naples and the Amalfi Coast...without getting ripped off!

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Hatteras Island Subtitle: Keeper of the Outer Banks Author: Ray McAllister Narrator: John Witt Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 10-11-17 Publisher: Ray McAllister Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Hatteras Island is a barrier island, part of the famed Outer Banks that run parallel to the North Carolina coast. But any map, let alone a satellite view from space, shows the island is not part of North Carolina at all. Hatteras belongs to the Atlantic Ocean, as much a part of the sea as fish and waves, and as much at the sea's mercy as sandcastles on the beach. And it belongs to the heart. In Hatteras Island: Keeper of the Outer Banks, award-winning coastal writer Ray McAllister returns to the site of his family's annual vacations a quarter-century ago. Much has changed. But more has not. Elsewhere, fast-food restaurants, strip malls, and beach-dominating duplexes have overcome resort islands. But the storm-buffeted Hatteras - as much as 30 miles from the mainland and largely protected against intruders by national seashore status - has kept its soul. Hatteras has long been a world class sportfishing and windsurfing spot. Its famed lighthouse, historic lifesaving stations, pristine beaches, and six small towns are magnets for tourists. But the Hatteras soul is also built on extraordinary history: early Native Americans who glimpsed Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci in the 16th century, raids by Blackbeard and other cutthroat pirates, hurricanes that ripped apart the island, so many shipwrecks that its treacherous coastline became the "Graveyard of the Atlantic", Civil War battles and even a coastal war with German U-boats. It was here that radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden in 1902 transmitted the first musical notes received by signal, a heroic lifesaving crew saved 42 British seamen whose tanker was destroyed by a German submarine in 1918, and General Billy Mitchell's 1923 demonstration of the effectiveness of air power helped establish the US Air Force. Hatteras Island also includes stories of fishermen, tourists, surfers, beachgoers, historians, generations of Hatteras families, and others who hold dear this island constantly being redefined by wind and wave.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Pariswalks Author: Sonia Landes, Alison Landes Narrator: Gates McFadden Format: Abridged Length: 3 hrs Language: English Release date: 02-06-04 Publisher: Sound Travel Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 39 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Thousands of visitors to Paris have walked through its historic and enchanting quarters with the classic Pariswalks guidebook in hand. Now you can put on your earphones, keep your eyes on the historic buildings, colorful shops, and hidden courtyards, and enjoy your own personally guided audio tour of Paris with the Pariswalks Audio Guide. Each walk is designed as a fascinating half day experience. © and (P)1997 Sound Travel Critic Reviews: "The tours are as informative and interesting as any guided tour I have taken in Paris." (The Washington Post ) "Concise and interesting....This program is well worth your listening attention, if not your walking shoes." (AudioFile)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: In Morocco Author: Edith Wharton Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 10-17-08 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 38 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is Edith Wharton's remarkable account of her journey to that country during World War I. With her characteristic sense of adventure, Wharton set out to explore Morocco and its people, traveling by military jeep to Rabat, Moulay Idriss, Fez, and Marrakech, from the Atlantic coast to the high Atlas. Along the way, she witnessed religious ceremonies and ritual dances, visited the opulent palaces of the Sultan, and was admitted to the mysterious world of his harem.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Americana Subtitle: Dispatches from the New Frontier Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Kris Koscheski Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 06-07-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: For more than 15 years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with fascinating subcultures and bizarre characters who could live nowhere else. Following Sides, we crash the redwood retreat of an apparent cabal of fabulously powerful military-industrialists, drop in on the Indy 500 of bass fishing, and join a giant techno-rave at the lip of the Grand Canyon. We meet a diverse gallery of American visionaries - from the impossibly perky founder of Tupperware to Indian radical Russell Means to skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. We retrace the route of the historic Bataan Death March with veterans from Sides's acclaimed World War II epic, Ghost Soldiers. Americana gives us a sparkling mosaic of our country today, in all its wild and poignant charm.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Visit Sunny Chernobyl Subtitle: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places Author: Andrew Blackwell Narrator: Ax Norman Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 06-18-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 75 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth - Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. Its rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canadas oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth. From the hidden bars and convenience stores of a radioactive wilderness to the sacred but reeking waters of India, Visit Sunny Chernobyl fuses immersive first-person reporting with satire and analysis, making the case that its time to start appreciating our planet as it is - not as we wish it would be. Irreverent and reflective, the book is a love letter to our biospheres most tainted, most degraded ecosystems, and a measured consideration of what they mean for us. Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogues gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offer - and approaches a deeper understanding of whats really happening to our planet in the process.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Magnetic City Subtitle: A Walking Companion to New York Author: Justin Davidson Narrator: Justin Davidson, Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 04-18-17 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: From New York magazine's architecture critic, a walking guide to New York City - a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the city. For nearly a decade, Pulitzer Prize - winning critic Justin Davidson has explained the ever-changing city of New York to his readers at New York magazine, introducing new buildings, interviewing architects, tracking the way the transforming urban landscape shapes who New Yorkers are. Now, his extensive, inspiring knowledge will be available to a wide audience. An insider's guide to the architecture and planning of New York that includes original insights from the men and women who built the city and lived in it - its designers, visionaries, artists, writers - Magnetic City offers first-time visitors and lifelong residents a new way to see New York. Includes walking tours throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Critic Reviews: "Davidson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for New York magazine, is a resident, student, and passionate lover of New York, and he has done right by a subject that, fittingly, has been essayed many times before. He combines a keen intelligence, experience, observational skills, expertise (especially but not solely architectural), and an elegant writing style to make this beautifully produced book indispensable." (Booklist) "Justin Davidson's beautiful tours of New York City invoke and redouble our love of the metropolis. His observations of landmarks, in-between places, and layered histories, delivered by an amazing kindred-spirit of architecture, make us feel like royal presences in the city." (Jerry Saltz, senior art critic, New York) "A fascinating and insightful companion for a walking tour of New York City. I particularly enjoyed the rich interweaving of the contemporary and the historical. A book worthy of the 21st century flaneur!" (Daniel Libeskind)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Author: Paul Theroux Narrator: John McDonough Format: Unabridged Length: 25 hrs and 1 min Language: English Release date: 03-06-09 Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 137 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in his classic The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is an absorbing and beautifully written follow-up to The Great Railway Bazaar. ©2008 Paul Theroux; (P)2009 WF Howes Ltd

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Emperor Far Away Subtitle: Travels at the Edge of China Author: David Eimer Narrator: Corey Snow Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 09-16-14 Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 47 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: 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. Travelling through China's most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities. Deconstructing the myths represented by Beijing, Eimer reveals a shocking and fascinating picture of a China that is more of an empire than a country.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Tracking Bodhidharma Subtitle: A Journey to the Heart of Chinese Culture Author: Andy Ferguson Narrator: George Backman Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 02-28-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: The life of Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, has, with the passing of time, been magnified to the scale of myth, turning history into the stuff of legend. Known as the First Patriarch, Bodhidharma brought Zen from South India into China in 500 CE, changing the country forever. In Tracking Bodhidharma, Andrew Ferguson recreates the path of Bodhidharma, traveling through China to the places where the First Patriarch lived and taught. This sacred trail takes Ferguson deep into ancient China, and allows him to explore the origins of Chan [Zen] Buddhism, the cultural aftermath that Bodhidharma left in his wake, and the stories of a man who shaped a civilization. Tracking Bodhidharma offers a previously unheard perspective on the life of Zens most important religious leader, while simultaneously showing how that history is relevant to the rapidly developing super-power that is present-day China. By placing Zen Buddhism within the countrys political landscape, Ferguson presents the religion as a counterpoint to other Buddhist sects, a catalyst for some of the most revolutionary moments in Chinas history, and as the ancient spiritual core of a country that is every day becoming more an emblem of the modern era.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Potatoes on the Moon Subtitle: I Spent a Week Probing the Alien Landscape of Idaho Author: Jim Goad Narrator: Jim Goad Format: Unabridged Length: 56 mins Language: English Release date: 11-19-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 24 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: What do most people think of Idaho? Well, see, that's the problem - they don't think of Idaho. Despite its breathtaking natural beauty and the fact that it's crammed to the gills with eccentrics and freethinkers, Idaho may as well be the moon as far as the rest of America is concerned. Jim Goad recently spent a week in Idaho mingling with state troopers, political extremists, collegiate progressives, and heartbreakingly friendly locals. Spending most of the week in the wilderness allowed him to examine one of the most pervasive yet ignored forms of cultural bigotry - the endless disdain that "urban supremacists" have for rural people. In this case, the countryside wins by a landslide.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Paris, Paris Subtitle: Journey into the City of Light Author: David Downie Narrator: Max Winter Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins Language: English Release date: 11-06-13 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 100 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Élysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens, and the aristocratic Île Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine. Downie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris and writing about the city he loves. An irreverent, witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places, and daily life, Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the world's favorite city.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Road to Sleeping Dragon Subtitle: Learning China from the Ground Up Author: Michael Meyer Narrator: David Shih Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 10-10-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: In 1995, at the age of 23, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean's orders, jumped into teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market, and Beatles lyrics. Soon he realized his Chinese counterparts were just as bewildered by China's changes as he was. Thus began an impassioned immersion into Chinese life. With humor and insight, Meyer puts listeners in his novice shoes, winding across the length and breadth of his adopted country - from a terrifying bus attack on arrival, to remote Xinjiang and Tibet, into Beijing's backstreets and his future wife's Manchurian family, and headlong into efforts to protect China's vanishing heritage at places like "Sleeping Dragon", the world's largest panda preserve. Both funny and relatable, The Road to Sleeping Dragon is essential listening for anyone interested in China's history, and how daily life plays out there today.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Handful of Honey Subtitle: Among the Palm Groves of North Africa Author: Annie Hawes Narrator: Saskia Wickham Format: Abridged Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 04-18-08 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. Travelling through Morocco and Algeria, she eats pigeon pie with a family of cannabis farmers, and learns about the habits of djinns; she encounters citizens whose protest against the tyrannical King Hassan takes the form of attaching colanders to their television aerials - a practice he soon outlaws - and comes across a stone-age method of making olive-oil, still going strong. She allows a ten-year-old to lead her into the fundamentalist strongholds of the suburbs of Algiers - where she makes a good friend. Plunging southwards, regardless, into the desert, she at last shares a lunch of salt-cured Saharan haggis with her old friends, in a green and pleasant palm grove perfumed by flowering henna - once, it seems, the favourite scent of the Prophet Mohammed. She discovers at journey's end that life in a date-farming oasis, haunting though its songs may be, is not so simple and uncomplicated as she has imagined. Annie Hawes has legions of fans. Her writing has the well-built flow of fiction and the self-effacing honesty of a journal.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Wonder Trail Subtitle: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World Author: Steve Hely Narrator: Steve Hely Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 06-14-16 Publisher: Penguin Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 122 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make listeners want to reach for their backpacks and hiking boots. The Wonder Trail is the story of Steve's trip from Los Angeles to the bottom of South America, presented in 102 short chapters. The trip was ambitious - Steve traveled through Mexico City, ancient Mayan ruins, and the jungles, coffee plantations, and remote beaches of Central America; across the Panama Canal; by sea to Colombia; to the wild Easter celebration of Popayán; to the Amazon rainforest, the Inca sites of Cuzco and Machu Picchu; to the Galápagos Islands and the Atacama Desert of Chile; and down to the jagged and wind-worn land of Patagonia at the very end of the Western Hemisphere. Steve's plan was to discover the weird, wonderful, and absurd in Central and South America, to seek and find the incredible, delightful people and experiences that came his way. And the book that resulted is just as fun. A blend of travel writing, history, and comic memoir, The Wonder Trail will inspire, inform, and delight. Critic Reviews: "With an authentic and self-effacing voice, author and narrator Steve Hely brings his sharp sense of humor to the task of describing his trip from Los Angeles to Punta Arenas.... He also does clever impressions of his guides and fellow travelers. He has read widely and does a good job pronouncing Spanish names and interpreting sites. Overall, his insights are entertaining, his audiobook whimsical and fun." (AudioFile)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Breaking Seas Subtitle: An Overweight, Middle-Aged Computer Nerd Buys His First Boat, Quits His Job, and Sails Off to Adventure Author: Glenn Damato Narrator: René Ruiz Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 11-21-13 Publisher: Ninth Circle Press Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 221 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Do you have a dream you must pursue, but everyone says it's unrealistic? Or that you're not qualified? Too old, too out of shape? Or you don't have the "right experience?" Glenn Damato was a 41-year-old software instructor who sought to exceed the bounds of his comfortable but humdrum existence. He embarked on an adventure for which he was miserably unprepared. Why did he do this? How did he answer the ancient human question: how do we jump-start growth in our lives? We become something we were not. The "something" Damato strived to become was neither easy nor simple: an ocean sailing skipper. Overweight and without boating experience of any kind, he decided to pursue his lifelong dream of sailing around the world on his own vessel. Reckless? Dangerous? Idiotic? Call it what you will, Damato was determined to make the voyage a reality despite the obstacles.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Fatal Sunset: Deadly Vacations Author: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff Narrator: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 05-14-12 Publisher: Glenneyre Press, LLC Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: No one ever believes their dream vacation can instantly turn into a tragic nightmare...until it's too late. Some tourists vanish without a trace. Over 170 people have disappeared from cruise ships around the world since 1995, several under very suspicious circumstances. Others have their lives senselessly stolen, like the 8-year-old boy sucked into an unprotected pool drain at a major resort, leaving his mother crying out his name as security staff held her at gunpoint. Or 22-year old Nolan Webster, denied proper medical care after being pulled unconscious from a Cancun resort pool, only to have his dead body left in plain view for hours and his parents billed for his room. Vacations are meant to be joyous and fun. Sometimes terrible things happen unexpectedly. A parasailing newlywed plummets hundreds of feet to her death on the last day of her honeymoon when her harness snaps in midair. Hikers make a fatal plunge on an improperly-marked Kauai cliffside trail. And of course, there's every mother's nightmare: the disappearance of Natalee Holloway while on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba with members of her senior class. Fatal Sunset, the latest exposé from award-winning and best-selling author Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff is not meant to do for vacations what Jaws did for beaches. "I'm not trying to scare you from going on a trip. I'm revealing these hidden true stories in order to make sure you understand what danger lurks in between the sun and sand and that perfect getaway," explains Nemcoff, the writer behind Kindle best sellers The Death of Osama Bin Laden and Where's My F*cking Latte?, an insiders look at the world of Hollywood celebrity assistants that was not only featured on Access Hollywood but has spent over four years straight at the top of Amazon's top-selling chart in the categories of "Television" and "Movies". "Sometimes travelers put themselves into situations beyond their limitations or worse, beyond their control," says Nemcoff. "People on vacation tend to engage in riskier activities than they are normally used to. Sometimes things can instantly turn deadly because you made a bad decision or were in the wrong place at the wrong time." In addition to Fatal Sunset's shocking stories of deadly shark attacks, drownings, suspicious encounters, unfortunate accidents, and murder, there is one part of the book that still haunts Nemcoff. "I interviewed Nolan Webster's mom, Maureen. In the book she explains what it was like to get that terrible phone call about her son's death. It's something I think about every day." "There's one piece of advice I've learned researching this book," tells Nemcoff. "Dare to be aware."

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Small Place in Italy Author: Eric Newby Narrator: Eric Newby Format: Abridged Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 02-23-17 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb re-creation of a bygone era. In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife, Wanda, fulfilled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they first met during World War II. But this fulfillment would not come easy. The dream materialised in the form of I Castagni ('The Chestnuts'), a small, decrepit farmhouse with no roof, an abandoned septic tank and its own indigenous wildlife reluctant to give up their home. But in the foothills of the Apuan Alps on the border of Liguria and Northern Tuscany, this ramshackle house would soon become a hub of love, friendship and activity. Whether recounting dangerous expeditions through Afghanistan or everyday life in a country house, Newby's talent shines through as one of the foremost writers of the comic travel genre. Full of Newby's sharp wit and good humour, A Small Place in Italy returns, 20 years later, to the life of Newby's much-cherished classic, Love and War in the Apennines. It lovingly recounts the quickly disappearing lifestyle of the idiosyncratic locals and the enduring friendships they forge, whether sharing in growing their first wine harvest as novices or frying poisonous mushrooms for a feast. Critic Reviews: ''Newby is of course a travel writer of near genius - wonderfully dry in the narration of the tribulations which so often afflict him and Wanda, and splendidly precise on the nuts and bolts of things.... Highly readable and dangerously liable to induce a craving for one's own patch of Italian paradise.'' (Martin Gayford, Sunday Telegraph) ''Newby is an incomparable, shrewd and witty travel writer...immensely enjoyable.'' (John Mortimer, Mail on Sunday) ''Eric Newby must rank as one of the foremost travel writers of our age. Among his skills lies the ability to carry the reader with him on the most varied of journeys...a sequel to his 1971 classic, Love and War in the Apennines...[Newby's] good humour, and his loving eye for a way of life now disappearing, makes it a sterling contribution to that very particular shelf of English literature, describing life as lived among the Italians.'' (Hugh Carless, Guardian) ''A jovial account of living in Tuscany.'' (Literary Review) ''[Newby's] book is cheerful, informative and often very funny.'' (Times Literary Supplement) ''There is a deep respect for human personality here, and a wealth of information scrupulously and precisely retailed.'' (Daily Telegraph) ''Beautifully written. Full of wisdom, humour and humanity, Newby is touching on the poignancy of life, its fleeting pleasures and ultimate, inevitable loss.... He is a perceptive interpreter of our dreams.'' (Sunday Express) ''Newby goes into satisfying detail about the people, the food and the landscape, and the house itself takes a central role in the book...by observing the details of his surroundings with clarity and understanding, he gives the reader a gentle picture of a pleasant Arcadia.'' (Wanderlust)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Free Country Subtitle: A Penniless Adventure the Length of Britain Author: George Mahood Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 08-01-14 Publisher: What Noise Productions Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 57 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: The plan is simple. George and Ben have three weeks to cycle 1,000 miles from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland. There's just one small problem - they have no bikes, no clothes, no food, and no money. Setting off in just a pair of Union Jack boxer shorts, they attempt to rely on the generosity of the British public for everything from food to accommodation, clothes to shoes, and bikes to beer. During the most extraordinary of challenges, George and Ben scavenge through rubbish bins, search for the Loch Ness monster, wash dishes, clean hotels, sing Christmas carols for food, swim in lakes, descend Cornish hills on children's bikes, and cook a barbecue for 30 old people in a field. They spend the night in a greenhouse, a canal boat, a posh hotel, an empty house, a pub, a tent in a car park, and a barn with a bull. Through the course of their hysterical journey, they are clothed, fed, and sheltered by the generous people of Britain.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: All Good Things Subtitle: From Paris to Tahiti: Life and Longing Author: Sarah Turnbull Narrator: Caroline Lee Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 09-12-13 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: The author of the international best-seller Almost French sets sail to explore a new paradise: Tahiti. Sarah Turnbull turns her characteristically lush prose to this spectacular landscape as she describes adjusting to another new culture. In All Good Things, Frédéric's work takes the couple to an island near Tahiti - but there is more to the move than simply a job opportunity. In this seeming paradise, where each day begins with a swim in the magical waters of the lagoon, Sarah seeks creative rejuvenation. "Book and baby: I'd never dared speak them so boldly, but my aims for the next two years were clear in my mind before we moved." Turnbull transports the listener with her vivid, evocative descriptions of the natural environment while ruminating on the paradise myth and the special nature of islands - as well as the long-ago visit to the territory by Henri Matisse. Told with heartbreaking honesty and full of jewels of insight, All Good Things is a story about love and longings in one of the most beautiful and isolated places on earth.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Surviving Ireland Author: Colm Tobin Narrator: Colm Tobin Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 10-08-15 Publisher: Random House AudioBooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: It's exhausting being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the postcolonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world? In Surviving Ireland, acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin takes the listener by the hand for a satirical romp through modern Irish life. As well as providing all the tools you'll need to navigate this often tricky little island (except a compass or anything even resembling a fact), the book will take you through some of the country's fraught history, asking some searing questions in the process: How did we get here, where are we going and who in the name of God is going to pay for it all? Surviving Ireland takes in culture and politics, town and country, food and drink, birth, death and everything in between. Let it be your definitive guide to this strange and bewildering rock cowering from the cold Atlantic swells. Not the Booker Prize-nominated author Colm Tóibín.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Year in the World Subtitle: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller Author: Frances Mayes Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins Language: English Release date: 04-11-06 Publisher: Books on Tape Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 40 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes, a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. An ideal travel companion, Frances Mayes brings to the page the curiosity of an intrepid explorer, remarkable insights into the wonder of the everyday, and a compelling narrative style that entertains as it informs. With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, the British Isles, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, the South of Italy, and North Africa. In Andalucia, she relishes the intersection of cultures. She cooks in Portugal, gathers ideas in the gardens of England and Scotland, takes a literary pilgrimage to Burgundy, discovers an ideal place to live in Mantova, and explores the essential Moroccan city of Fez. She rents houses among ordinary residents, shops at neighborhood markets, wanders the back streets, and everywhere contemplates the concept of home. While in Greece, she follows the classic Homeric voyage across the Aegean, lives in a bougainvillea-draped stone house in Crete, and then drives deep into the Mani. In Turkey with friends, she sails the ancient coast, hiking to archaeological sites and snorkeling over sunken Byzantine towns. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and social and culinary traditions of each area, Mayes brings the immediacy of life in her temporary homes to the reader. An illuminating and passionate audiobook that will be savored by all who loved Under the Tuscan Sun, A Year in the World is travel writing at its peak. Critic Reviews: "Mayes' prose shines with evocative imagery, bringing life to every subject she encounters across her peripatetic year." (Booklist)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Sunrises to Santiago Subtitle: Searching for Purpose on the Camino de Santiago Author: Gabriel Schirm Narrator: Gabriel Schirm Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 01-29-16 Publisher: Paz Publishing LLC Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 42 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: After spending his 20s traveling the world and hopping from job to job, Gabriel Schirm was lost. At 32 years old, he desperately needed to find direction and meaningful purpose in his life. With no physical training, he decided his answers were waiting for him somewhere along the historic 490-mile pilgrimage route called the Camino de Santiago in Spain. From the physical high of crossing the Pyrenees Mountains to the mind numbing rhythm of walking through the endless wheat fields of the Meseta, the route was filled with many challenges. Accompanied by his "guru" wife, Amy, Schirm faces setbacks like bed bugs and tendinitis, all in the pursuit of elusive answers. The lessons came from the serendipitous experiences and conversations with fellow pilgrims from all over the world. Sunrises to Santiago chronicles a wondrous journey of personal growth, physical pain, and outdoor adventure while teaching us all to enjoy life's incredible journey.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Author: Samuel Johnson, James Boswell Narrator: Patrick Tull, Alexander Spencer Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 12-16-99 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 61 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: In 1773, 63-year-old literary giant Samuel Johnson joined James Boswell, a 32-year-old Scottish lawyer, on an historic horseback expedition across the Scottish Highlands to the Western Islands. The unlikely duo's travelogue records their fascinating conversations and encounters with great wit and incredible detail. Johnson, one of the 18th century's most celebrated writers, provided an elegant and stately account of everything from Loch Ness's medicinal waters to Scotland's puzzling lack of trees. The younger Boswell focused instead on his famed companion, offering a perceptive, highly entertaining, deeply intimate glimpse into Johnson's personality. Taken together, Johnson and Boswell's very different styles perfectly complement each other, resulting in a deeply satisfying, truly original narrative. Editorial Reviews: In an odd-couple tale of sorts, the literary titan Samuel Johnson goes on a horseback tour across the Scottish Highlands and into the Western Islands with the young journalist James Boswell. Accomplished narrators, Patrick Tull and Alexander Spencer take charge of Johnson and Boswell's records, adding a fresh and intimate take on this fascinating journey. The narratives of these two men combine to form a most unique audiobook. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland provides not only access to a rapidly evolving Scotland, but also insight into one of England's most renowned men of letters. Critic Reviews: "Delightful examples of language at its best, these tapes would be a meaningful addition to any serious literature collection." (Library Journal)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Hiking Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine Subtitle: 49 Day Challenge to Hike 12 Greatest Sections of A.T. Author: Alan Greenfield Narrator: Aaron Hay Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 05-19-17 Publisher: Valencia Publishing House Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: It was 1994, on my 23rd birthday, when my father gave me an envelope which I figured would be a gift certificate for something outdoors or even a golf club coupon. But to my surprise, it was an airline ticket to Atlanta! I was utterly confused. But that confusion soon turned into huge excitement when he said, "We are going to hike the Appalachian Trail in less than 50 days. Get ready son." I was excited, and I asked him why he hadn't ever hiked this trail. He said he'd always had the dream of hiking it with me. In his words, "I saved the best for you." That was a trip I will never forget. I think to date that is one of most fun and adventurous things I have ever done. We were able to finish it in 49 days, too. We both were very proud of each other. Soon after that trip, my dad was diagnosed with a severe case of arthritis. Even though the doctors said it was not because of that trip, they think it was too many hiking trips through many rough and rugged terrains that contributed to his condition. When I originally had the idea to write a guidebook on how to hike on the great Appalachian Trail, at first, I thought I should just write it like a journal of what we did. But then my father told me that might not help every listener. He suggested that I should write it like a guidebook that can help anyone from a beginner to an advanced hiker. This way we cover a broad range of hikers. So this book is not about my hiking trips, but yours. My main focus in this book is to get you familiarized with the trail and get you prepared for it. This book is truly a guidebook which is divided into two parts where I start off with some basic facts and information about the great Appalachian Trail, then give my listeners a clear overview of the trail in every region and state it crosses. Next, I talk about how to get started hiking the Appalachian Trail, along with all the different options like a day hike, multi-day hike, and through hike. Next, I spoke about what to expect on the trail, what kind of help and support is out there, how weather can affect your hiking, and what wild animals you have to be aware of. Then I discuss how you can find sanitation, restrooms, showers, etc. on the trail, and how to deal with various illnesses while on the trail. Next up is how you should pack, what gear you need, how to plan a through-hike, and how to actually get started on this amazing trip. In the second part of the book, I share how to hike each section day by day and what you can expect, what you need to be looking for, and what you need to be aware of on each section of your hike. After hiking through the great Appalachian Trail twice, I can assure you it can be done. No, it is not a monumental task, but yes, it will take effort and a strong willingness to go through with it. I know if I could do it, anyone can.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Anyone Can Do It: Musings of a Neurotic Euro-Traveler Author: Peter R. Best Narrator: Peter Best Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 1 min Language: English Release date: 12-19-17 Publisher: Silk-Spun Stories Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Penned over the course of a 15-hour return flight from Europe, writer Peter Best shares the honest account of how he skirted (or dove headlong into) a defining crisis. Anyone Can Do It seeks to convince the first-time traveler that its title rings true: Anyone can take the journey of a lifetime. Part how-to travel guide for the novice and part stream-of-consciousness narrative from a self-proclaimed neurotic, Anyone Can Do It will take you to Ireland, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece over the course of 60 days. This euro-trip also slings back and forth through time and space and even sets foot in a few quirky, anxiety-induced dreams. Those seeking escape, perspective, encouragement, and fulfillment need to hear this account.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Notes From a Small Island Author: Bill Bryson Narrator: William Roberts Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-06 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 133 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland, and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, zebra crossings, and place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey, and Shellow Bowells. With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure. The result is a social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain. ©1995 Bill Bryson; (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Gun Guys Subtitle: A Road Trip Author: Dan Baum Narrator: Richard Kind Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins Language: English Release date: 03-07-13 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 61 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Here is armed America - a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Texas, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether theyre collecting antique weapons, practicing concealed carry, or firing an AR-15 or a Glock at their local range, many Americans love guns - which horrifies and fascinates many other Americans, and much of the rest of the world. This lively, sometimes raucous book explores from the inside the American love affair with firearms. Dan Baum is both a lifelong gun guy and a Jewish Democrat who grew up in suburban New Jersey feeling like a "child of a bitter divorce with allegiance to both parents". In Gun Guys he grabs his licensed concealed handgun and hits the road to meet some of the 40 percent of Americans who own guns. We meet Rick Ector, a black Detroit autoworker who buys a Smith & Wesson after suffering an armed robbery - then quits his job to preach the gospel of armed self-defense, especially to the resistant black community; Jeremy and Marcey Parker, a young, successful Kentucky couple whose idea of a romantic getaway is the Blue Ridge Mountain 3-Gun Championship in Bowling Green; and Aaron Zelman, head of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. Baum also travels to New Orleans, where he enters the world of a man disabled by a bullet, and to Chicago to interview a killer. Along the way, he takes us to gun shows, gun stores, and shooting ranges while trying to figure out why so many of us love these things and why they inspire such passions. In the tradition of Confederates in the Attic and Among the Thugs, Baum brings an entire world to life. Written equally for avid shooters and those who would never touch a firearm, Gun Guys is more than a travelogue. It gives a fresh assessment of the heated politics surrounding guns, one that will challenge and inform people on all sides of the issue. This may be the first book that goes beyond gun politics to illuminate the visceral appeal of guns - an original, perceptive, and surprisingly funny journey through American gun culture. Critic Reviews: "Dan Baum armed himself with an open mind and a .38 Detective Special to see what the armed lifestyle is about. Taking participatory journalism to a debate that rivals abortion as a hot-button topic, he emerged with observations that need to be read by both sides of the highly polarized issue." (Massad Ayoob, author and use-of-force instructor) "Dan Baums curiosity about guns and his passion for them pull you deep into this book before you even know how you got there. He has put in the heft of a firearm and the smell of gunpowder and the heedless hilarity of shooting the heck out of stuff, and has produced a beautiful piece of writing." (Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia) "Engrossing... a thoughtful corrective to the mutual ideological hysteria surrounding the issue of guns in America." (Kirkus Reviews)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ireland Subtitle: A Backpackers Travel Guide Author: S. Daly Narrator: K.D. O'Neill Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 08-30-16 Publisher: Eire Publishing Ltd Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Visiting Ireland on a budget? I know how you feel. I put this book together for all my fellow budget backpackers out there. Using this guide book will make your travel to the Emerald Isle more fun, organized and cost-effective. Discover the best hostels, budget hotels, places of interest and where to party! Preview:

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Maui Subtitle: Ten Ways to Enjoy the Best Food, Beaches and Locations While on Vacation Author: Paul Brodie Narrator: Paul G. Brodie Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 08-17-16 Publisher: Paul G. Brodie Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Maui: Ten Ways to Enjoy the Best Food, Beaches and Locations While on Vacation shows you how you can enjoy the best of Maui with the most up-to-date information. What if you could plan the best vacation possible to Maui? What if you could have an incredible vacation in Maui with a few simple steps? Imagine waking up in Maui with the best guide possible to enjoy the best food, beaches, and locations while on vacation in paradise. Here are a few things that you will get out of Maui. In this book, you will learn.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Geneva, Lausanne, Fribourg & Western Switzerland Travel Adventures Author: Kimberly Rinker Narrator: Adam Zens Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 06-18-15 Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc. Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: This is Switzerland's second largest city (behind Zürich), with 178,900 residents, and is heavily influenced by its French neighbors to the west and south. Here you'll find the quintessence or haute école of everything Switzerland stands for in the new century: beauty, wealth, education, international relations, and culture, not to mention romantic scenery at its finest. One aspect of Geneva that is hard to miss is the Genevois' love of food. In fact, Geneva is home to more restaurants per capita (over 1,100 in total) than any other major city in the world - including Manhattan. A visitor will also note that the Genevois serve an unusual preponderance of organ meat dishes, known as "abats". Everything from blood pudding - "boudin noir" - to pickled pigs feet are popular and commonplace here. Geneva has over 30 museums and private galleries, all of which contain prestigious private and public displays of art work, historical documents and cultural highlights. Geneva offers a diverse variety of cultural and sporting events, such as classical music concerts, open-air movies on the lakeshore, as well as various trade fairs. Annually, Geneva is home to the Inventions and New Techniques Fair, a rousing Automobile Show, an International Book and Press Fair and the High Watchmaking Fair. This is based on our comprehensive Adventure Guide to Switzerland, which is close to 600 pages in the print version. Here, we focus on Geneva and the surrounding area in Switzerland's western portion. Among the many towns described are Lausanne, Montreux, Neufchatel, Fribourg, and Gruyeres. Also included is a detailed introduction with full information about what you need to know when visiting Switzerland. Nestled in the heart of Europe, Switzerland is a feast for the eyes, with azure-blue lakes that shine brilliantly against the greenest slopes of the surrounding Alps.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Around the World in 50 Years Subtitle: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth Author: Albert Podell Narrator: Tom Perkins Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins Language: English Release date: 05-05-15 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 35 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him - two to disease, one to the Vietcong. After that - although it took him 47 more years - Albert Podell set another record by going to every country on Earth. He achieved this by surviving riots, civil wars, trigger-happy child soldiers, voodoo priests, robbers, corrupt cops, and Cape buffalo. He went around, under, or through every kind of natural disaster. He ate everything from old camel meat and rats to dung beetles and the brain of a live monkey. And he overcame attacks by crocodiles, hippos, anacondas, giant leeches, flying crabs - and several beautiful girlfriends who insisted that he stop this nonsense and marry them. Critic Reviews: "[T]here is never a dull moment." ( Kirkus)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 25 Must-See Attractions in Hawaii Subtitle: Local, Insider Knowledge of the Best Attractions Author: Jeff Johnson Narrator: Wes Super Format: Unabridged Length: 48 mins Language: English Release date: 05-31-17 Publisher: Jeff Johnson Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: This book gives you more info than any travel agent could about the attractions and excursions you must do and see while visiting Hawaii! Inside this book you'll discover:

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The New York Times: Footsteps Subtitle: From Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, Literary Pilgrimages Around the World Author: New York Times Narrator: Susan Ericksen, David Colacci Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 10-24-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald vacationed in the French Riviera, where a small green lighthouse winked at ships on the horizon. Before the nameless lovers began their illicit affair in The Lover, Marguerite Duras embarked upon her own scandalous relationship amidst the urban streets of Saigon. And before readers were terrified by a tentacled dragon-man called Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft was enthralled by the Industrial Trust tower - the 26-story skyscraper that makes up the skyline of Providence, Rhode Island. Based on the popular New York Times travel column, Footsteps is an anthology of literary pilgrimages, exploring the geographic muses behind some of history's greatest writers. From the "dangerous, dirty and seductive" streets of Naples, the setting for Elena Ferrante's famous Neapolitan novels, to the "stone arches, creaky oaken doors, and riverside paths" of Oxford, the backdrop for Alice's adventures in Wonderland, Footsteps takes a fresh approach to literary tourism, appealing to book lovers and travel enthusiasts alike.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Come Back Frayed Author: Colin Wright Narrator: Colin Wright Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins Language: English Release date: 01-22-16 Publisher: Asymmetrical Press Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Travel is an excuse to challenge your beliefs and increase your perspective. Telling travel stories is an excuse to discuss society, philosophy, the evolution of modern relationships, and the state of contemporary marketing. From the secluded rice terraces of Mayoyao to the expat-friendly beaches of Boracay, Come Back Frayed is a collection of stories and essays written about and from the Philippines by full-time traveler Colin Wright. The pieces in this collection connect isolated agrarian societies with those that have fallen prey to rampant consumerism, and draw a line between introverted, nonstandard lifestyles and the always-on connections that bind humanity together in the modern world. There's also some discussion about allergies, loincloths, and why cockroaches are so rage-inducing.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Roundabout Passage to Venice Subtitle: A Mother/Daughter Escapade in Europe Author: Patricia A Steele Narrator: Nancy Isaacs Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 02-17-17 Publisher: Plumeria Press Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: When a woman wants to celebrate her divorce, she invites her mother to France. She's ready to a ticket to flit through Paris, but her mother blithely mentions the Chunnel Train and drifting down the Grand Canal of Venice. What?! Hence, the roundabout trip begins.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Romewalks Author: Anya Shetterly Narrator: Maria Tucci Format: Abridged Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 02-06-04 Publisher: Sound Travel Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 25 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: These four intimate walking tours can take as little as two hours or as long as a morning or afternoon, depending on whether you stop at shops, museums, or cafes which are pointed out along the way. You can also listen to the tapes before you leave to help you plan your day in Rome and they will be an enjoyable reminder for you when you return.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://hotaudiobook.com Título: Historia de los viajes [Travel History] Autor: Diana Uribe Narrador: Diana Uribe Formato: Unabridged Duración: 3 hrs and 47 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 09-08-15 Editor: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U. Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 15 votos Categorías: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Resumen del editor: "El libro que acá les presento es el resultado de una vida que ha podido nutrirse de realizar sueños: es un libro de viajes. El sabor de comidas distintas, la extrañeza de costumbres desconocidas, el enfrentar tus propias creencias con las ajenas: son cosas que te enriquecen, te transportan y que los kilómetros, por miles que sean, no logran revelar. He visto lugares que mi imaginación no alcanzó a recrear. Comparto tres viajes muy significativos, lo hago con todo mi ser porque nada hace tanta parte de mí como lo viajes históricos y las ganas ubérrimas, como las del poeta Vallejo, de contarlos. Turquía tiene una historia milenaria, llena de encuentros entre civilizaciones, está marcada por huellas que se superponen formando un mosaico de tiempo. Rusia es una de los ejes del siglo XX, no se puede pensar ese período sin toparse en todas partes con ella, y finalmente Sudáfrica tiene las huellas de su oscuro pasado y en lugar de ocultarlas, las usan para aprender y enseñar la más dura de todas las lecciones." (Diana Uribe) Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Chichen Itza Subtitle: The Maya Quest for Meaning Author: TekTrek Narrator: TekTrek Format: Original Recording Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 10-05-06 Publisher: Academex Digital Publishing Corp. Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: In this guided tour, discover the archaeological ruins at Chichen Itza and learn about the Maya quest to uncover the purpose of life. © Academex Digital Publishing Corp

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Armchair Birder Subtitle: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds Author: John Yow Narrator: Kevin Young Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 08-20-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 62 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging and sometimes irreverent vignettes, Yow reveals the fascinating lives of the birds we see nearly every day. Following the seasons, he covers forty-two species, discussing the improbable, unusual, and comical aspects of his subjects' lives. Yow offers his own observations, anecdotes, and stories as well as those of America's classic bird writers, such as John James Audubon, Arthur Bent, and Edward Forbush. This unique addition to bird literature combines the fascination of bird life with the pleasure of good reading.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Bella Tuscany Subtitle: The Sweet Life in Italy Author: Frances Mayes Narrator: Frances Mayes Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs Language: English Release date: 12-16-99 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 82 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Publisher's Summary: Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to experience the pleasures of primavera, an Italian spring. A sabbatical from teaching in San Francisco allowed her to return to Cortona - and her beloved house, Bramasole - just as the first green appeared on the rocky hillsides. Bella Tuscany, a companion volume to , is Mayes' passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. Now truly at home there, Mayes writes of her deepening connection to the land, her flourishing friendships with local people, the joys of art, food, and wine, and the rewards and occasional heartbreaks of her villa's ongoing restoration. It is also a memoir of a season of change, and of renewed possibility. As spring becomes summer she revives Bramasole's lush gardens, meets the challenges of learning a new language, tours regions from Sicily to the Veneto, and faces transitions in her family life. Filled with recipes from her Tuscan kitchen and written in the sensuous and evocative prose that has become her hallmark, Bella Tuscany is a celebration of the sweet life in Italy. ©1999 Frances Mayes; (P)1999 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://hotaudiobook.com Título: Buen Camino. El Camino de Santiago. El Camino Portugués a Pié [Good Road. The Road to Santiago. The Portuguese Road on Foot] Autor: Javier Fortuño Gil Narrador: Alfonso Sales Formato: Unabridged Duración: 22 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 11-03-16 Editor: ASB Audiobooks Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 11 votos Categorías: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues Resumen del editor: Todo aquel que ha realizado alguna parte o todo el Camino de Santiago comprendera el titulo: Buen Camino. En este pequeno audiolibro relato de forma sencilla mi experiencia en el camino, ademas de dar unos consejos al viajante, fruto de mi experiencia, de otros peregrinos con los que he compartido el Camino. Mucha gente relacionada conmigo en la vida personal y profesional, ha realizado el Camino de Santiago y me han animado a hacerlo, adema mis hijos viven en Pontevedra, y ellos me han acompanado en algunas etapas; experiencia que recomiendo. Por este motivo quise empezar por el Camino portugues y despues continuar por otros, pero eso ya es otra historia. Esos momentos de pausa y tranquilidad en el Camino me han animado a ayudar a otras personas, incluyendo tambien clientes de mi empresa. El tramo portugues del Camino de Santiago transcurre desde Tui a Santiago. Son 119 km que se pueden hacer comodamente en cinco dias. Buen Camino. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.