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    • 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 256 ratings
    • The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia....

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    • By: Timothy West
    • Narrated by: Timothy West
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • For more than half a century, a shared love of canals and narrowboats has been inseparable from the marriage of Timothy West and Prunella Scales....

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    • London to Edinburgh: 11 Days, 2 Wheels and 1 Ancient Highway
    • By: Steve Silk
    • Narrated by: Steve Silk
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • In 1921, Britain’s most illustrious highway, the Great North Road, ceased to exist - on paper at least. Stretching from London to Edinburgh, the old road was largely replaced by the A1 as the era of the motor car took hold. A hundred years later, Steve Silk sets off on an adventure....

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    • By: Neil Oliver
    • Narrated by: Neil Oliver
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • From much loved historian Neil Oliver comes a whole new insight on our past, told through 100 remarkable, unforgettable stories....

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    • The World Through Medieval Eyes
    • By: Anthony Bale
    • Narrated by: Esh Alladi
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From the medieval souks of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the listener to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks.

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    • A Journey Around the Coast of Britian
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Ron Keith
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • American-born Paul Theroux had lived in England for 11 years when he realized he'd explored dozens of exotic locations without discovering anything about his adopted home....

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    • Discovering England's Ancient Depths
    • By: Francis Pryor
    • Narrated by: Francis Pryor
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The Fens is Britain's most distinctive, complex, man-made and least understood landscape. Francis Pryor has lived in, excavated, farmed, walked and loved the Fen Country for more than 40 years....

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    • By: J. B. Priestley
    • Narrated by: Sean Baker
    • Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Prophetic and as relevant today as it was nearly ninety years ago, English Journey is an elegant and readable love letter to a country Priestley finds unfathomable....

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    • The Days That Made Britain
    • By: Stuart Maconie
    • Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • In Hope and Glory, Stuart goes in search of the places....

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    • Life and Death in the World City
    • By: Ben Judah
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • This is the new London: an immigrant city. Over one-third of Londoners were born abroad, with half arriving since the millennium. This has utterly transformed the capital, for better and for worse....

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    • A Travel Memoir
    • By: Sallie Tisdale
    • Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
    • Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Great Buddha Gym for All Mens and Womens, author Sallie Tisdale so richly evokes her pilgrimage to the four vital sites related to Buddha Shakyamuni's life and enlightenment....

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    • By: Stephen Smith
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • In Underground London, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital....

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    • Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
    • By: Tom Coyne
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Globe-trotting golfer Tom Coyne has finally come home. And he’s ready to play all of it....

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    • The Journals
    • By: Robert Falcon Scott
    • Narrated by: William Sutherland
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In November 1910, the vessel Terra Nova left New Zealand carrying an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott...

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    • How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
    • By: Lucy Lethbridge
    • Narrated by: Lucy Lethbridge
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From portable cameras to postcards and suntans, Tourists explores how tourism has reflected changing attitudes to modernity and how, from the grand hotel to the campsite, the foreign holiday exposes deep fears, hopes and even longings for home....

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    • A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
    • By: Natasha Carthew
    • Narrated by: Natasha Carthew
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Undercurrent is part-memoir, part-investigation, part love-letter to Cornwall. It is a vivid, powerful exploration of rural poverty, and the often devastating impact of living without the means or support to build a future....

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    • An American Romance
    • By: Jonathan Raban
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Seduced by the government’s offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of the twentieth century....

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