United States Audiobooks | Travel

Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Applachian Trail

Following her bestselling memoir, Thirst, here is the next step in Heather "Anish" Anderson's adventurous life journey-one of deep emotion and self-discovery Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2013, Heather "Anish" Anderson still had such deep-seated insecurities that she became convinced her feat had been a fluke. So two years later she set out again, this time hiking through mud, rocks, and mountain blazes to crush her constant self-doubt and seek the true source of her strength and purpose. The 2,189 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, did not make it easy. Anderson struggled with its infamous rain, humidity, insects, and steep grades for fifty-four days. But because she had to fight for every step, she knew when she reached the summit of Springer Mountain, the AT's southern terminus, that she had fully earned the trail. Of greater value, she learned to love herself and her body, and to feel the depth of her power. Examining emotional scars as well as her relationship with her mother, Anderson's deeply internal yet highly physical journey in Mud, Rocks, Blazes is an essential story.

Heather Anderson (Author), Chelsea Stephens (Narrator)

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The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World, 3rd Edition: Over 600 Secrets of the Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Di

The latest edition to the successful Hidden Magic series features updated information on the latest attractions at Walt Disney World, including Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway! Whether it's your first or fiftieth visit to Walt Disney World, you'll be surprised at how much you can miss during your trip. But with this guide to Disney's hidden treasures you'll learn: -You can search for more than the usual hidden Mickey. There are other beloved characters like Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse hidden around the parks. -The book Belle reads in Beauty and the Beast is a real book...and you can find out what it is by heading to Maurice's cottage. -Imagineers hide symbols of themselves around the park to "sign" their work. Including all-new information on Toy Story Land, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, and Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway, The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World, 3rd Edition will inspire you to relive the magic year after year!

Susan Veness (Author), Andrea Emmes (Narrator)

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Moon Baseball Road Trips: The Complete Guide to All the Ballparks, with Beer, Bites, and Sights Near

Sunshine, hot dogs, friends, and the excitement of the game: Baseball is called America's pastime for a reason. Experience the best of the MLB cities and stadiums with Moon Baseball Road Trips. - Flexible Itineraries: Explore the 30 major league cities with a variety of road trip options, including a Boston to DC route, a loop through the Midwest, a dip into Toronto, a cruise along the West Coast, and more - Visit all the Ballparks: From the ivy walls of Wrigley to Fenway's Green Monster and Dodger Stadium's gorgeous mountain views, experience every ballpark in the league and dive into local fan culture - Catch a Game: Find valuable tips for snagging tickets and get the inside scoop on the best places to park or catch public transit, where to eat and drink nearby, and events like music festivals, the Hall of Fame Weekend, Fourth of July celebrations, and more - Explore the Major League Cities: Get to know the MLB hometowns with full chapters on each city. Pay respects to Babe Ruth in Baltimore, visit Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and stroll through the Boston Common. Find the best local craft breweries, and chow down on chili dogs, barbecue, fresh crab, and more foodie specialties. Hold back a tear at the Field of Dreams, grab a seat for a Spring Training game, or rent a kayak on the bay and try to catch a fly ball from San Francisco's Oracle Park - Expertise and Know-How: Former baseball writer and avid Phillies fan Timothy Malcolm shares his advice for planning the perfect baseball road trip - Maps and Driving Tools: Easy-to-use maps, along with mileages, driving times, and directions, with full-color photos throughout - Helpful resources on COVID-19 - Planning Tips: Where to stay, when and where to get gas, how to avoid traffic, and tips for driving in different road and weather conditions, plus suggestions for seniors, families with kids, and more With Moon Baseball Road Trips' practical tips, local expertise, and flexible itineraries, you're ready to step up to the plate and hit the road.

Timothy Malcolm (Author), George Newbern (Narrator)

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Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events that Made the Mov

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom. From witnessing eye-opening landmarks to celebrating triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail. - Flexible Itineraries: Travel the entire trail through the South, or take shorter trips with chapters on Charleston, Birmingham, Jackson, Memphis, Washington DC, and more places that were significant to the Civil Rights Movement - Historic Civil Rights Sites: Learn about Dr. King's legacy at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, be transformed at the small but mighty Emmett Till Intrepid Center, and stand tall with Little Rock Nine at their memorial in Arkansas - The Culture of the Movement: Get to know the voices, stories, music, and flavors that shape and celebrate Black America both then and now - Expert Insight: Award-winning journalist Deborah Douglas offers her valuable perspective and knowledge, as well as suggestions for engaging with local communities by patronizing Black-owned businesses and seeking out activist groups - Travel Tools: Find tips on where to stay, where to eat, the best local nightlife, and more, plus driving directions for exploring the sites on a road trip, with full-color photos and maps throughout - Detailed coverage of: Charleston, Atlanta, Selma to Montgomery, Birmingham, Jackson, the Mississippi Delta, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Raleigh, Durham, Virginia, and Washington DC - Foreword by Bree Newsome Bass: activist, filmmaker, and artist Journey through history, understand struggles past and present, and get inspired to create a better future with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail.

Deborah D. Douglas (Author), Bree Newsome, Bree Newsome Bass, Deborah D. Douglas, Rebecca Lee (Narrator)

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The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness

A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument. The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons and bold mesas and buttes. This wilderness, now threatened by oil and gas drilling, unrestricted grazing, and invasion by Jeep and ATV, is at the center of the greatest environmental battle in America since the damming of the Colorado River to create Lake Powell in the 1950s. In The Bears Ears, acclaimed adventure writer David Roberts takes listeners on a tour of his favorite place on earth as he unfolds the rich and contradictory human history of the 1.35 million acres of the Bears Ears domain. Weaving personal memoir with archival research, Roberts sings the praises of the outback he's explored for the last twenty-five years.

David Roberts (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator)

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The Solace of Open Spaces

A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich's new book, Unsolaced "Wyoming has found its Whitman." -Annie Dillard Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn't leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on "the planet of Wyoming," a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces-the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons-in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose "as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning" (Newsday), Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us.

Gretel Ehrlich (Author), Gretel Ehrlich (Narrator)

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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Brought to you by Penguin. 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. His 10,000-mile journey took him through almost forty states, where he saw things that made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated. A rugged and passionate adventure of self-identity, Steinbeck's vision of the changing world still speaks to us prophetically through the decades. 'Delightful. This is a book to be read slowly for its savor.' The Atlantic © John Steinbeck 1962 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

John Steinbeck (Author), Gary Sinise (Narrator)

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Enchanted New York: A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan's Magical Past

Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York's central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won't find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor's guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies-from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project-to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder-working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world's premier stage magician's feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious-and meaningful-marquee of magic. Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses-no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.

Kevin Dann (Author), Daniel Henning (Narrator)

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The Barren Author: Series 1 - Episode 2

Inspired by the stories of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe our tales are not a literal adaptation but instead take the satirical, provocative and absurd spirit of the original tales and re imagines them for 2020. These fantastical stories are perfectly suited to an immersive audio experience which has, at its heart, the powerful, witty and commanding storytelling of its central character. But don`t get too comfortable. Something dark always lies just underneath the comedy. Something desperate to get out... Episode 2 Smith's gentle interrogations continue and the young Brigadier reveals his contribution to the fall of Communism through a series of Elton John impersonations. His astonishing achievements don't stop there. When his accidental discoveries aboard a Swedish Science Research ship lead to the invention of a secret formula, the world is at his feet. The world kicks back, however, and after a desperate climb up Notre Dame, he finds himself pursued by the police, an old friend and two well-known figures of darkness. This heady mix of characters eventually find themselves at the heart of a larger evil - the sordid trafficking of Celebrity Lookalikes.

Paul Birch (Author), Richard O'brien (Narrator)

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Straddling the Hound

This wonderful account of four solo bus trips taken by ageing physician and road-addict Trevor Watson breathes new life into the much-loved travelogue genre. Narrated masterfully by the author himself, we are taken on a journey across America, as - with open heart and curious mind - Trevor explores the netherworld of long-distance bus travel. Whether he's chatting with outlaws and mystics, hobnobbing with Mormons in Utah, plunging into Mark Twain's glorious Mississippi or discovering what happens at the end of the line, Watson's love of people, oddity and language is deeply engaging and a genuine pleasure to hear. Hop on the bus - you're in for a real treat!

Trevor Watson (Author), Trevor Watson (Narrator)

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Wie ein Leuchten in tiefer Nacht (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Alles, was zählt: Freundschaft. Liebe. Literatur. 1937: Hals über Kopf folgt die Engländerin Alice ihrem Verlobten Bennett nach Amerika. Doch anstatt im Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten findet sie sich in Baileyville wieder, einem Nest in den Bergen Kentuckys. Mächtigster Mann dort ist der tyrannische Minenbesitzer Geoffrey Van Cleve, ihr Schwiegervater. Neuen Lebensmut schöpft Alice erst, als sie gemeinsam mit vier anderen Frauen für die mobile Bücherei zu arbeiten beginnt - eine der Bibliotheken auf dem Lande, die auf Initiative der Präsidentengattin Eleanor Roosevelt gegründet wurden. Tag für Tag reiten sie auf schwer bepackten Pferden zu abgelegenen Farmen in den Bergen, um die Menschen dort mit Büchern zu versorgen. Alice liebt ihre Aufgabe, die wilde Natur und deren Bewohner. Und sie fasst den Mut, ihren eigenen Weg zu gehen. Gegen alle Widerstände.

Jojo Moyes (Author), Luise Helm (Narrator)

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USA Road Trip. Objetivo Gran Cañón

La excusa de una graduación para realizar un viaje en coche por el oeste de Estados Unidos hacia la Falla de San Andrés y el Gran Cañón del Colorado. 'Todo empezó cuando mi sobrina Laura que vive cerca de Dallas, me propuso ir a la graduación de mi otra sobrina Rebeca, que vive en los Ángeles. Claro que eso solamente fue la chispa que encendió el fuego de una aventura mayor: visitar el Gran Cañón del Colorado'.

Carles Fernández-Lavado (Author), Carles Fernández-Lavado (Narrator)

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