Writing Places

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    • Weird Travel Series, Book 1: From Chernobyl to North Korea - One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places
    • By: Adam Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Series: Weird Travel Series, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Adam Fletcher visits places everyone else is trying to escape from, and tourists don't normally go to. In this hilarious travel memoir, he'll enter a blizzard in China armed with only biscuits; pose as a scientist to sneak into Chernobyl; and more....

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    • By: James Rebanks
    • Narrated by: Bryan Dick
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island.

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    • By: Rory Stewart
    • Narrated by: Rory Stewart
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • Rory Stewart's sparsely poetic and highly acclaimed account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been hailed as a modern classic of travel writing. Traveling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible mountainous route, Stewart was nearly defeated by the hostile conditions....

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    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: Simon Bubb
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his...

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    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

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    • Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart
    • By: John Keahey
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From Palermo to Castiglione di Sicilia to Alimena, Sicily holds great secrets from the past and unspoken promises. Now, slowly shaking itself free of the Mafia, Sicily is opening itself up to visitors in ways it never has before....

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    • In Life and Every Adventure
    • By: Simon Reeve
    • Narrated by: Simon Reeve
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 14-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 434 ratings
    • In Journeys to Impossible Places, best-selling author and presenter Simon Reeve reveals the inside story of his most astonishing adventures and experiences, around the planet and close to home....

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    • By: Damian Le Bas
    • Narrated by: Damian Le Bas
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in the ancient Romani language....

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    • Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations
    • By: Dom Joly
    • Narrated by: Dom Joly
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection - the schoolboy currency of Beirut....

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    • By: Trevor Dolby
    • Narrated by: Trevor Dolby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • With the coming of the first decade of the 21st century, One Place de l'Eglise had become rather derelict. Then, an impoverished—in his mind at any rate—Londoner and his wife went a little crazy and bought it. It was love at first sight....

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    • By: Noreen Masud
    • Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they contain....

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    • A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times
    • By: Mary Colwell
    • Narrated by: Mary Colwell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Mary Colwell makes a 500-mile solo pilgrimage along the Camino Francés, winding through forests, mountains, farmland, industrial sprawls and places of worship, weaving her experiences of the Camino with natural history, spirituality and modern environmentalism....

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    • A Journey Around Scotland’s Whisky
    • By: Dave Broom
    • Narrated by: Dave Broom
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this beautifully crafted narrative, award-winning writer Dave Broom examines Scotch whisky from the point of view of its terroir—the land, weather, history, craft and culture that feed and enhance the whisky itself....

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    • The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth
    • By: Wendy E. Simmons
    • Narrated by: Jeena Yi
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Most people want out of North Korea. Wendy Simmons wanted in....

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    • In Search of Places to Be, People to See... and Strange Stuff to Eat (Love Travel Series, Book 1)
    • By: Lisa Jackson, Graham Williams
    • Narrated by: Lisa Jackson, Graham Williams
    • Series: Love Travel Series, Book 1
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Lisa and her husband Graham's hilarious trip saw them buying snacks from "voodoo vendors" in Taiwan, almost drowning off a Philippine beach, stumbling across "death porn" in Thailand, and meeting The Bogeyman in a Pushkar restaurant....

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    • In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, 'What's Funny About This'
    • By: P.J. O'Rourke
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Holidays in Hell follows P. J. O’Rourke on a global fun-finding mission to the most desperate places on the planet....

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    • By: Eric Newby
    • Narrated by: Eric Newby
    • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb re-creation of a bygone era....

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    • By: Writing Souls' Travel Guides
    • Narrated by: JD Kelly
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Kyoto is an enthralling destination for visitors - combining the appeal of an ancient and unfamiliar culture with all the trappings of one of the world powerhouses in knowledge, entertainment, fashion, and innovation. Kyoto has an enthralling and versatile culture. Listen for more....

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    • A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
    • By: Anita Sethi
    • Narrated by: Anita Sethi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Anita Sethi was on a journey through Northern England when she became the victim of a race-hate crime. The crime was a vicious attack on her right to exist in a place on account of her race. After the event Anita experienced panic attacks and anxiety....

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    • My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
    • By: Rick Steves
    • Narrated by: Rick Steves
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, For the Love of Europe features 100 of the best stories published throughout his career. Covering his adventures through Europe, these are stories only Rick Steves could tell....

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