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'Rom ist anstrengend und chaotisch, aber niemals langweilig.' Das sagt die Römerin Gulia über ihre Heimatstadt. Das geophon-Reisehörbuch über die italienische Metropole ist ein lebendiges Stadtporträt, in dem Einheimische nicht nur Geschichten erzählen und über den Alltag in der Stadt plaudern, sondern auch praktische Tipps geben. Der Marktverkäufer Fabrizio gibt Tipps für den Einkaufsbummel, Maurizio berichtet, was es bedeutet, 'eine gute Figur zu machen' und führt uns zu seiner Lieblingseisdiele in der Nähe der Piazza Navonna. Die akustische Reise führt zum Petersplatz und in das Pantheon, auf den Markt am Campo dei Fiori, ins jüdische Ghetto und in die Gassen des historischen Zentrums. Der Archäologe Dr. Ulrich Morgenroth nimmt uns mit auf einen Rundgang über das Forum Romanum, und Schwester Martha führt uns in die Katakomben des Priscilla-Klosters. Zitate von Goethe, die Musik der italienischen Meister und viele Klänge der Stadt runden den akustischen Rundgang ab. Ideal zur Einstimmung und Vorbereitung oder für einen 'Ohrenausflug' vom Sofa aus.

Matthias Morgenroth, Ulrike Winkelmann (Author), Henning Freiberg, Ingrid Gloede (Narrator)

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Spaziergang durch Barcelona: Ein Hörvergnügen mit O-Tönen und Musik

Der Klang der traditionellen Sardanas, die bunten Stadtteilfeste, das Schnattern der Gänse in der Kathedrale, das Klappern der Kastagnetten ... Das Reisehörbuch über Barcelona entführt mit Musik, Geräusch und Interview Ihre Ohren in die Ferne. Der Schauspieler Ferran erzählt vom kühlen Charme der Designerbars und von den einfachen Tapas an der Theke, und Gisella berichtet von der Gründung Kataloniens und plaudert darüber, warum das Viertel Gracia vor allem am Abend einen Bummel lohnt. Wir besuchen die ewige Großbaustelle der Sagrada Familia, erkunden den Hafen und das Nachtleben in Barceloneta. Verweilen Sie in den paradiesischen Oasen des Parc Guell und des Montjuic oder tauchen Sie ein in das vitale Treiben auf den Ramblas und dem Placa Reial. Zwischen den stimmungsvollen Gassen der Altstadt und den modernistischen Bauten von Eixample ist Barcelona die aufregendste Stadt Nordspaniens.

Reinhard Kober (Author), Henning Freiberg, Ingrid Gloede (Narrator)

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Spaziergang durch New York: Ein Hörvergnügen mit O-Tönen und Musik

Die Stadt, die niemals schläft! Sofort hat man sie im Ohr: die Betriebsamkeit in der Wall Street, die Sirenen der Ambulances, den Strand von Long Island und das Rattern der Subway. Klänge, Musik, Bericht und viele Interviews mit New Yorkern schaffen ein lebendiges Stadtporträt, mit dem man vom Sofa aus die Metropole erleben kann: John erzählt von dem geschichtsträchtigen Greenwich Village, der russische Taxifahrer Alexander erinnert sich an seine erste Schicht, und Pernell Thomas beschreibt das quirlige Leben in der Bronx und spricht über das Leben in New York nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September. Ideal zur Einstimmung und Vorbereitung oder für das sehnsüchtige Erinnern auf dem heimischen Sofa. Fernweh garantiert.

Reinhard Kober, Ulrike Winkelmann (Author), Henning Freiberg, Ingrid Gloede (Narrator)

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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Mos

Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine Croke gives us the remarkable account of Ruth Harkness and her extraordinary journey, and restores Harkness to her rightful place along with Sacajawea, Nellie Bly, and Amelia Earhart as one of the great woman adventurers of all time. Ruth was the toast of 1930s New York, a dress designer newly married to a wealthy adventurer, Bill Harkness. Just weeks after their wedding, however, Bill decamped for China in hopes of becoming the first Westerner to capture a giant panda-an expedition on which many had embarked and failed miserably. Bill was also to fail in his quest, dying horribly alone in China and leaving his widow heartbroken and adrift. And so Ruth made the fateful decision to adopt her husband's dream as her own and set off on the adventure of a lifetime. It was not easy. Indeed, everything was against Ruth Harkness. In decadent Shanghai, the exclusive fraternity of white male explorers patronized her, scorned her, and joked about her softness, her lack of experience and money. But Ruth ignored them, organizing, outfitting, and leading a bare-bones campaign into the majestic but treacherous hinterlands where China borders Tibet. As her partner she chose Quentin Young, a twenty-two-year-old Chinese explorer as unconventional as she was, who would join her in a romance as torrid as it was taboo. Traveling across some of the toughest terrain in the world-nearly impenetrable bamboo forests, slick and perilous mountain slopes, and boulder-strewn passages-the team raced against a traitorous rival, and was constantly threatened by hordes of bandits and hostile natives. The voyage took months to complete and cost Ruth everything she had. But when, almost miraculously, she returned from her journey with a baby panda named Su Lin in her arms, the story became an international sensation and made the front pages of newspapers around the world. No animal in history had gotten such attention. And Ruth Harkness became a hero. Drawing extensively on American and Chinese sources, including diaries, scores of interviews, and previously unseen intimate letters from Ruth Harkness, Vicki Constantine Croke has fashioned a captivating and richly textured narrative about a woman ahead of her time. Part Myrna Loy, part Jane Goodall, by turns wisecracking and poetic, practical and spiritual, Ruth Harkness is a trailblazing figure. And her story makes for an unforgettable, deeply moving adventure.

Vicki Constantine Croke, Vicki Croke (Author), Jennifer Van Dyck (Narrator)

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Palladian Days

Palladian Days is nothing short of wonderful'part adventure, mystery, history, diary, and even cookbook. The Gables' lively account captures the excitement of their acquisition and restoration of one of the greatest houses in Italy. Beguiled by Palladio and the town of Piombino Dese, they trace the history of the Villa Cornaro and their absorption of Italian life. Bravo!' 'Susan R. Stein, Gilder Curator and Vice President of Museum Programs, Monticello In 1552, in the countryside outside Venice, the great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio built Villa Cornaro. In 1989, Sally and Carl Gable became its bemused new owners. Called by Town & Country one of the ten most influential buildings in the world, the villa is the centerpiece of the Gables' enchanting journey into the life of a place that transformed their own. From the villa's history and its architectural pleasures, to the lives of its former inhabitants, to the charms of the little town that surrounds it, this loving account brings generosity, humor, and a sense of discovery to the story of small-town Italy and its larger national history. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Carl I. Gable, Sally Gable (Author), Sally Gable (Narrator)

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An Affair With Africa

In June 1960, Alzada Kistner and her husband David, an entomologist, left their eighteen-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four-month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution, trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to face numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded. An emergency airlift by the U.S. Air Force brought them to safety in Kenya, where they continued their field work. Thus began three decades of adventures in science. In An Affair with Africa, Alzada Kistner describes her family's African experience during the five expeditions they took, beginning with the trip to the Belgian Congo in 1960 and ending in 1973 with a nine-month excursion across southern Africa. From hunching over columns of ants for hours on end while seven months pregnant to eating dinner next to Idi Amin, Kistner provides a lively and revealing account of the human side of scientific discovery.

Alzada Carlisle Kistner (Author), C. M. Hébert, C.M. Hebert (Narrator)

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California Characters: An Array Of Amazing People

For forty-six years, Charles Hillinger journeyed around the world writing human-interest stories for the Los Angeles Times. He also helped to create and produce special features for the popular NBC television show Real People. From this work comes California Characters, a collection of stories of intriguing, eccentric, or simply amazing individuals profiled by Hillinger. Many of these people have strange occupations, live solitary lives in remote locations, or collect, build, or design an assortment of odd things. Characters like Down the Road Dugan, Sweetwater Clyde, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Spaceship Ruthie, and Warmly Ormly will delight, amuse, and perhaps inspire the listener with their tales and reasons why they've chosen to live the lives they do. "Climb aboard and join Chuck on his incredible odyssey throughout the Golden State as he revisits this wonderful cast of colorful characters. Take my word, you will be enchanted with every story that follows."-Otis Chandler, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times

Charles Hillinger (Author), Dennis McKee (Narrator)

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Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

Originally published in 1985, "Outposts" is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets." In this abridged audiobook, the author of "Krakatoa" and "Professor and the Madman" takes listeners on a quirky and charming tour of a distant and forgotten end of the Earth.

Simon Winchester (Author), Simon Winchester (Narrator)

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A Year in the Merde

An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris- for Francophiles and Francophobes alike A YEAR IN THE MERDE is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based loosely on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action and to prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint Laurent suit (or quite possibly, a Christian Dior skirt), " A YEAR IN THE MERDE is the story of a Paul West, a 27-year-old Brit who is brought to Paris by a French company to open a chain of British "tea rooms." He soon becomes immersed in the contradictions of French culture: the French are not all cheese-eating surrender monkeys, though they do eat a lot of smelly cheese; they are still in shock at being stupid enough to sell Louisiana, thus losing the chance to make French the global language, while going on strike is the second national participation sport after pétanque. He also illuminates how to get the best out of the grumpiest Parisian waiter, how to survive a French business meeting, and how not to buy a house in the French countryside. The author originally wrote A YEAR IN THE MERDE just for fun and self-published it in France in an English language edition. Weeks later, it had become a word-of-mouth hit for expats and the French alike, even outselling Bill Clinton's memoir at Paris's fabled American bookstore Brentano's. With translation rights now sold in eleven countries, Stephen Clarke is clearly a Bill Bryson (or a Peter Mayle...) for a whole new generation of readers who can never quite decide whether they love-or love to hate-the French.

Stephen Clarke (Author), Gerard Doyle (Narrator)

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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks

Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones. Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary. These great whites were the alphas among alphas, the narrator said, some of them topping eighteen feet in length, and each fall they congregated here off the northern California coast. That so many of these magnificent and elusive animals lived in the 415 area code, crisscrossing each other under the surface like jets stacked in a holding pattern, seemed stunningly improbably–and irresistible. Within a matter of months she was in a seventeen-foot Boston Whaler, being hoisted up a cliff face onto the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island–part of the group known to nineteenth-century sailors as the 'Devil's Teeth.' There she joined the two biologists who study the sharks, bunking down in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 120-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Less than forty-eight hours later she had her first encounter with the famous, terrifying jaws and was instantly hooked. The Devil's Teeth offers a rare glimpse into the lives of nature's most mysterious predators, and of those who follow them. Here is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.

Susan Casey (Author), Kimberly Farr (Narrator)

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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks

Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones. Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary. These great whites were the alphas among alphas, the narrator said, some of them topping eighteen feet in length, and each fall they congregated here off the northern California coast. That so many of these magnificent and elusive animals lived in the 415 area code, crisscrossing each other under the surface like jets stacked in a holding pattern, seemed stunningly improbable--and irresistible. Casey knew she had to see them for herself. Within a matter of months she was in a seventeen-foot Boston Whaler, being hoisted up a cliff face onto the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island--part of the group know to the nineteenth-century sailors as "Devil's Teeth." There she joined the two biologists who study the sharks, bunking down in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 120-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Less than forty-eight hours later she had her first encounter with the famous, terrifying jaws and was instantly hooked. Curiousity yielded to obsession, and when the opportunity arose to return for a longer stay she jumped at it. But as Casey readied herself for shark season, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands. The Devil's Teeth offers a rare glimpse into the lives of nature's most mysterious predators, and of those who follow them. Here is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.

Susan Casey (Author), Susan Casey (Narrator)

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Assassination Vacation

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With "Assassination Vacation," she takes us on a road trip like no other--a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage. From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue--it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and--the author's favorite--historical tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are lighter diversions into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult.

Sarah Vowell (Author), Conan O'brien, Dave Eggers, Jon Stewart, Sarah Vowell, Stephen King (Narrator)

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