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  • Abroad in Japan cover art

    • Abroad in Japan

    • By: Chris Broad
    • Narrated by: Chris Broad
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106 ratings

    • When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history....

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    • Himalaya

    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • Winner of the British Book Awards, TV & Film Book of the Year, 2005.

      In his most challenging journey to date, Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth....

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    • A Brief History of Japan

    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings

    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • The Great Railway Bazaar

    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Frank Muller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
    • The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia....

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    • Around the World in 80 Trains

    • A 45,000-Mile Adventure
    • By: Monisha Rajesh
    • Narrated by: Monisha Rajesh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings

    • A witty and irreverent look at the world and a celebration of the glory of train travel. Rajesh offers a wonderfully vivid account of life, history and culture in an audiobook that will make you laugh out loud - and reflect on what it means to be a global citizen....

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    • A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

    • By: Eric Newby
    • Narrated by: James Bryce
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

    • A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth....

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    • The Japanese Mind

    • Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
    • By: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

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    • Seven Years in Tibet

    • By: Heinrich Harrer, Richard Graves
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 472 ratings
    • A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet....

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    • Tokyo Vice

    • An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
    • By: Jake Adelstein
    • Narrated by: Jake Adelstein
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 223 ratings

    • From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up....

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    • A Pass Too Far

    • Travels in Central Asia
    • By: Lawrence Bransby
    • Narrated by: Lawrence Bransby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • It took Lawrence Bransby and his son, Gareth, three journeys into Central Asia before they were able to ride the legendary Bartang Pass. But it's another pass that becomes the focus of this story - Matts Pass in southern Tajikistan....

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    • Bohol Philippines

    • By: Donald Gray
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Powell
    • Length: 52 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • Buckle up, adventurers! This book is your passport to the captivating island of Bohol, Philippines. Imagine emerald rainforests teeming with exotic wildlife, like the wide-eyed Philippine tarsier. Witness the awe-inspiring Chocolate Hills transform into a chocolate haven during the dry season.

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    • By Motorcycle Through Vietnam

    • Reflections on a Gracious People
    • By: Lawrence Bransby
    • Narrated by: Lawrence Bransby
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In his ninth motorcycle journey, award-winning author Lawrence Bransby has chosen to travel through Vietnam. With the ever-present spectre of the war looking over his shoulder, Bransby travels throughout this fiercely independent country....

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  • Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn: A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran cover art

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    • Return to Sri Lanka

    • By: Razeen Sally
    • Narrated by: Razeen Sally
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • A blend of travel writing, memoir, history and current affairs that tells the story of Sri Lanka. A perfect listen for first-time visitors, Sri Lankans abroad or at home, or anyone looking to deepen their understanding of one of the world’s most fascinating and paradoxical countries.

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    • The Ogre

    • Biography of a Mountain and the Dramatic Story of the First Ascent
    • By: Doug Scott
    • Narrated by: Saethon Williams
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • On a July 1977 day, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival....

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  • China Simplified: History Flashback cover art

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    • Tokyo Junkie

    • 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
    • By: Robert Whiting
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world....

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    • In Xanadu

    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • William Dalrymple's highly praised and greatly entertaining account of his 1986 trip made while a student at Cambridge which retraced Marco Polo's route across land from Jerusalem to Xanadu....

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    • India: A Wounded Civilization

    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....

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    • Universe I Trust You

    • A Month in Sri Lanka
    • By: Roberta Mussato
    • Narrated by: Roberta Mussato
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Roby, a 38-year-old Italian woman living in London, decides to take a break from life as she knows it, however interesting and activity-filled she has tried to make it, and escape all the negativity and sadness that she just can’t seem to shake....

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