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Mark Steel’s in Town: Series 11 & 12
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series
- By: Mark Steel
- Narrated by: Mark Steel
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Steel is back with two more series of his award-winning show, in which he explores nine weird and wonderful places around the UK and beyond. After thoroughly researching each town's history, people and idiosyncrasies, he goes on to write and perform a tailor-made evening of stand-up for the residents.
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Mark Steel’s in Town: Series 11 & 12
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series
- Narrated by: Mark Steel
- Series: Mark Steel's in Town
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: English
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The Pike
- Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
- By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Narrated by: Karoline Newman
- Length: 23 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR The story of Gabriele D’Annunzio, poet, daredevil – and Fascist. In September 1919 Gabriele D’Annunzio, successful poet and occasional...
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Saved by the audio
- By Roderick on 15-05-14
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The Pike
- Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
- Narrated by: Karoline Newman
- Length: 23 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 27-03-14
- Language: English
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The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman
- A Bone-Shaking Tour Through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands
- By: Harry Pearson
- Narrated by: Harry Pearson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance79
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Story79
Committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders - through the lumpy horizontal rain, up the elbow-juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines as he follows races big, small and even smaller, through one glorious, muddy spring. Ranging over 500 years of Flemish and European history, Pearson examines the characters, the myths and the rivalries that make Flanders a place where cycling is a religion and the riders its Lycra-clad priests.
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Excellent book on a niche topic
- By Tim Lages on 30-12-20
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The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman
- A Bone-Shaking Tour Through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands
- Narrated by: Harry Pearson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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Wayfarer
- Love, loss and life on Britain’s ancient paths
- By: Phoebe Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025 A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024 Travel Book of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards 'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along paths of emotional understanding and physical wonder.'...
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Wayfarer
- By Graham on 12-01-26
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Wayfarer
- Love, loss and life on Britain’s ancient paths
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 28-03-24
- Language: English
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On The Slow Train
- Twelve Great British Railway Journeys
- By: Michael Williams
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Brought to you by Penguin. Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU This audiobook will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying...
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So interesting
- By Maxie's Daddy on 10-06-25
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On The Slow Train
- Twelve Great British Railway Journeys
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 25-10-21
- Language: English
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Delirious Delhi
- Inside India's Incredible Capital
- By: Dave Prager
- Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance32
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Story32
Delhi exists in a kind of quantum state: In Delhi, all things are true at once. When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave and Jenny moved to a city of 16 million people and, seemingly, twice that many horns honking at once. Delirious Delhi depicts India's capital as the two experienced it, from office life in the rising tech hubs to the traffic jam philosophy that keeps people sane in the gridlock leading to them. With only their sense of humour as their guide, Dave and Jenny set out to explore a city in which ancient stone monuments compete with glass-clad shopping malls to define the landscape.
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Disturbing narration
- By Flying Fluskey on 27-03-15
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Delirious Delhi
- Inside India's Incredible Capital
- Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-06-13
- Language: English
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A Woman in the Polar Night
- By: Christiane Ritter, Jane Degras - translator, Sara Wheeler - foreword
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content," but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive.
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Great story narration not so much
- By Miss Tulip on 25-01-26
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A Woman in the Polar Night
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 20-08-24
- Language: English
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Japan Travel Smart
- By: Taro Japan Travel Agency
- Original Recording
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Unlock the hidden side of Japan that guidebooks won't tell you. This isn't just a sightseeing guide; it's a survival kit for the smart traveler. We reveal practical "Urawaza" (secret tricks) to hack your trip: ・Crowd Evasion: How to enjoy Kyoto and Shibuya without drowning in a sea of tourists. ・Impossible Reservations: Insider methods to book high-end sushi and yakitori restaurants that usually reject foreigners. ・Transport Truths: The real math behind the JR Pass vs. Suica/Pasmo cards (and where to actually buy them). ・Tax-Free Secrets: How to shop smarter at Don Quijote and ...
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Travels with Herodotus
- By: Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Narrated by: Nicolas Coster
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Herodotus, the fifth-century chronicler, scarcely figured in the curriculum when famed Polish writer and traveler Ryszard Kapuscinski attended university in the 1950s. Ryszard became a foreign correspondent who hoped to go abroad, perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India—the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world. His only companion on his travels was a volume of Herodotus. In his journey across continents, Kapuscinski discovers his life's work: to understand and describe the non-Western world, in all its variety, through his still-virginal Western eyes.
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Totally original
- By Anonymous on 07-08-25
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Travels with Herodotus
- Narrated by: Nicolas Coster
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall375
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Performance310
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Story312
THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of...
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Are you an 8000 m mountain nerd?
- By Emma on 04-02-07
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-10-06
- Language: English
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Coasting
- A Private Journey
- By: Jonathan Raban
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance3
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Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage—which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982—into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home.
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Excellent book, but not narrated by author
- By Greg Dunn on 24-07-22
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Coasting
- A Private Journey
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-07-22
- Language: English
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The Path of Peace
- Walking the Western Front Way
- By: Anthony Seldon
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance11
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Without a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Anthony Seldon set out on a 35-day pilgrimage from the French-Swiss border to the English Channel. The route of his 1,000-kilometer journey was inspired by a young British soldier of the First World War, Alexander Douglas Gillespie, who dreamed of creating a 'Via Sacra' that the men, women and children of Europe could walk to honor the fallen.
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Good tales but an arduous walk
- By Patrick on 29-10-23
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The Path of Peace
- Walking the Western Front Way
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-08-23
- Language: English
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance24
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Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached...
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surprising
- By Ra on 05-02-26
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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Billy Connolly's Route 66
- The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip
- By: Billy Connolly
- Narrated by: James McPherson
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance106
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Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and bland the world over, has dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66 since he first heard Chuck Berry belting out one of the greatest rock 'n' roll records of all time. And now he's finally had the chance to do it, heading out on his custom-made trike in search of the real America that can still be found beyond the nation's freeways.
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The book will be better...........................
- By Colin on 25-10-11
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Billy Connolly's Route 66
- The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip
- Narrated by: James McPherson
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-10-11
- Language: English
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run
- True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
- By: Peter Allison
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall154
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Performance127
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals: herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides whose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous than a pride of hungry lions!
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Narrator is atrocious
- By Amazon Customer on 02-03-21
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run
- True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 20-02-12
- Language: English
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Riding Route 66
- Finding Myself on America’s Mother Road
- By: Henry Cole
- Narrated by: Henry Cole
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance47
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RIDING ROUTE 66 follows Henry Cole as he travels along Route 66, on a journey of self-discovery. Route 66, or the 'Mother Road', is one of the most famous roads in the USA. Crossing the width of the country, it is an immensely challenging road to travel. Henry has ridden it four times. This book is about the freedom that only the road and a motorcycle can give you, and the importance of embracing the highs and lows of life equally.
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there must be a guiness world record?
- By mark blackburn on 06-08-24
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Riding Route 66
- Finding Myself on America’s Mother Road
- Narrated by: Henry Cole
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-08-24
- Language: English
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The Great North Road
- London to Edinburgh: 11 Days, 2 Wheels and 1 Ancient Highway
- By: Steve Silk
- Narrated by: Steve Silk
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance47
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THE GREAT NORTH ROAD is a journey as satisfying for the armchair traveller as the long-distance cyclist. Enriched with history, humour and insight, it’s a tribute to Britain and the endless appeal of the open road.
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London to Edinburgh with Coaching Inns!
- By Paul on 16-07-23
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The Great North Road
- London to Edinburgh: 11 Days, 2 Wheels and 1 Ancient Highway
- Narrated by: Steve Silk
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-02-22
- Language: English
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Two Old Fools in Turmoil
- Old Fools, Book 5
- By: Victoria Twead
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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When dark, sinister clouds loom, Victoria and Joe find themselves facing life-changing decisions. Happily, silver linings also abound in this, the fifth Old Fools chronicle. A fresh new face joins the cast of familiar characters but the return of a bad penny may be more than some can handle. What does the future hold for the Spanish village of El Hoyo and the two old fools?
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This review is for the whole series
- By Lindypops on 11-04-25
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Two Old Fools in Turmoil
- Old Fools, Book 5
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: Old Fools, Book 5
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-01-25
- Language: English
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An Inconvenience of Penguins: Epic voyages in pursuit of the world's most beloved bird
- By: Jamie Lafferty
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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'An epic quest - in which the journey is at least as entertaining as the end result' - Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds That Changed the World 'Humorous, touching and refreshingly unsentimental' - Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road 'Highly entertaining and gloriously obsessional'...
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A.genuinely entertaining travel/nature book
- By Lottie on 16-10-25
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An Inconvenience of Penguins: Epic voyages in pursuit of the world's most beloved bird
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-09-25
- Language: English
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Gary Sinise
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog, Charley, to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of the American people. Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, Steinbeck observed - with remarkable honesty, insight and a humorous eye - the gamut of America and the people who inhabited it.
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As old as I am.
- By Brian Anderson on 14-09-21
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Gary Sinise
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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