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The continued musings of a hapless wanderer. Younger than Bill Bryson, smaller than Levison Wood, and hairier than Julia Bradbury. In his latest adventure, our bumbling yet affable narrator walks the 100 miles of the stunning and dramatic West Highland Way. Join him on a memorable hike that takes in all the splendour of the Scottish Highlands. With grand imposing scenery and beautiful shimmering lochs. Mountain peaks, midges, Highland Cows, Irn-Bru, turnip pizzas, waterfalls, wild open moors and going to increasingly bizarre lengths to avoid sleeping in a tent. If you like the sound of any of these things, then this is undoubtedly the book for you.

Stephen Reynolds (Author), Martin Allanson (Narrator)

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Desticity Paris (FR): Visitez Paris d'une manière innovante et ludique

Ce livre audio a été conçu pour être écouté sur place, devant les monuments ou sites d'intérêts de Paris. Votre expérience de visite sera ainsi enrichie. Ils peut aussi être réécouté après votre visite, ou à n'importe quel autre moment, pour mieux connaitre les monuments que vous aimez. Chacun des chapitres de ce livre raconte l'histoire et l'architecture d'un site, dans un format court de quelques minutes. Référez-vous au titre du chapitre pour connaître le nom du monument. Desticity vous permettra de découvrir les informations essentielles sur l'histoire, l'architecture et les anecdotes culturelles des monuments, sites et quartiers touristiques de Paris. Votre imaginaire sera stimulé par une immersion dans l'histoire de ce que vous admirez. Ces moments de visite sont à partager avec sa famille et ses amis. Branchez vos écouteurs et ouvrez grand les yeux... Bonne visite avec Desticity !

Desticity (Author), Desticity (Narrator)

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Unterwegs. Vom Reisen

'In der Musik einer Flughafen-Wartehalle in Timbuktu, einem Werbefoto, einem Fernsehbild, das einen Berliner Bären im Plüschkostüm tanzend zeigt, gesehen irgendwo auf der Welt, bin ich vielleicht mehr zu Hause als auf einem deutschen Bahnhof.' Roger Willemsen Roger Willemsen war sein Leben lang Reisender. In diesem Live-Mitschnitt erzählt er, begleitet von der WDR Big Band, davon, was Reisen ihm bedeutet, erzählt von seinen Begegnungen mit dem Fremden und den zwei Polen, die die Bewegung des Reisens im Wesentlichen bestimmen: dem Widerstand gegen das eigene Zuhause und der Sehnsucht nach dem fremden Ort.

Roger Willemsen (Author), Roger Willemsen (Narrator)

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National Trails Guide

For the first time, the 30 routes of the National Trails System are profiled in a guidebook: National Trails Guide: America's Hidden Wonders (Global CPR, Sausalito) is the only book available profiling all 30 national scenic and historic trails. The audiobook includes detailed information on where to go and what to see: Many bold stories from the trail, with detailed information on places across America Introduction to 136 national park units, 89 national forests, and 141 wilderness areas with national trails With companion website ( www.nationaltrailsguide.com ) including a large color US map "National parks are destinations; national trails are journeys," says author William Robert Buck. "These trails offer visceral examples of colliding cultures, a quest for livelihood in uncertain times, passionate stories of victory and defeat, and the celebration of human achievement and possibility." A modern-day champion of the National Trails System, Buck set out across the country to document all 30 trails. Over the course of eight years, with multiple road trip partners, he visited 50 states, taking 10,000 photographs, hiking segments of all the 30 national trails. Join the adventure...

William Robert Buck (Author), William Robert Buck (Narrator)

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The Dog Went Over the Mountain: Travels With Albie: An American Journey

On the cusp of turning 65, a man and his beloved rescue dog of similar vintage take a poignant, often bemusing, and keenly observed journey across America and discover a big-hearted, welcoming country filled with memorable characters, a newfound appreciation for the life they temporarily left behind, and a determination to live more fully in the moment as old age looms. Inspired by John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Zheutlin hits the road for a 9,000-mile odyssey with Albie to experience all that American is and means today. Similar in approach and tone to Bill Bryson's bestselling travel classics, but with an endearing canine sidekick, The Dog Went Over the Mountain will delight dog lovers, baby boomers, and anyone who seeks to experience life on the open road with a four-legged companion.

Peter Zheutlin (Author), Gregg Rizzo (Narrator)

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Three Men in a Boat: Penguin Classics

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Blake Harrison, star of The Inbetweeners, also known for his roles on screen in A Very English Scandal and Todd Margaret, as well as on London's West End in Waitress. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by David Carroll. Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes', it hilariously captured the spirit of its age. (c) 1889, Jerome K. Jerome (P) 2019 Penguin Audio

Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Blake Harrison (Narrator)

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How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together

In this 'refreshingly relatable' (Outside) memoir, Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his family on a journey around the world to change their lives together. What happens when one frustrated dad turns his kids' lives upside down in search of a new way to be a family? Dan Kois and his wife always did their best for their kids. Busy professionals living in the D.C. suburbs, they scheduled their children's time wisely, and when they weren't arguing over screen time, the Kois family-Dan, his wife Alia, and their two pre-teen daughters-could each be found searching for their own happiness. But aren't families supposed to achieve happiness together? In this eye-opening, heartwarming, and very funny family memoir, the fractious, loving Kois' go in search of other places on the map that might offer them the chance to live away from home-but closer together. Over a year the family lands in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and small-town Kansas. The goal? To get out of their rut of busyness and distractedness and to see how other families live outside the East Coast parenting bubble. HOW TO BE A FAMILY brings readers along as the Kois girls-witty, solitary, extremely online Lyra and goofy, sensitive, social butterfly Harper-like through the Kiwi bush, ride bikes to a Dutch school in the pouring rain, battle iguanas in their Costa Rican kitchen, and learn to love a town where everyone knows your name. Meanwhile, Dan interviews neighbors, public officials, and scholars to learn why each of these places work the way they do. Will this trip change the Kois family's lives? Or do families take their problems and conflicts with them wherever we go? A journalistic memoir filled with heart, empathy, and lots of whining, HOW TO BE A FAMILY will make readers dream about the amazing adventures their own families might take.

Dan Kois (Author), Dan Kois (Narrator)

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How to Draw a Map

How to Draw a Map is a fascinating meditation on the centuries-old art of map-making, from the first astronomical maps to the sophisticated GPS guides of today. Maps have influenced humanity in many unexpected ways: life, death, sexual reproduction, espionage, war and peace. How to Draw a Map traces the story of mapmaking - cartography - from the first scratchings on the cave wall to the detailed high-tech 'navigator'. This is the story of human conceptions, often misconceptions, of our world. It is also a very personal story about a mapmaker's journey through life - the exciting new perspectives and the occasional misadventures. Over the last 5,000 years societies and empires have risen and fallen; most, if not all, attempt to record their own visions of our world. In the 15th century, Europeans developed a global reach with their oceanic ships, exploring outward into the world, revealing new possibilities, peoples and opportunities. Mapmakers recorded this journey, revealing to us a window into past triumphs and disasters. The story continues into our own day when diplomats carve up our globe, presenting what we now see as the 'modern' world. In How to Draw a Map, father and son cartographers Alexander and Malcolm Swanston demonstrate the skill, creativity and care involved in the timeless art of creating maps - and what these artefacts reveal about the legion of mapmakers who went before us.

Alex Swanston, Malcolm Swanston (Author), Philip Bretherton (Narrator)

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Secret Bus to Paradise: It's not a physical place, on a map, or in a guidebook

It was important to me because I needed my fix of travel, my escape from the fast-paced world of the everyday. It’s not Tahiti, or Thailand, or even Hawaii; it’s Interstate 5. It’s not far away, unique, or in the slightest bit exotic. That’s just it, the secret is that it doesn’t need to be. I wear an uncontrollable dopey smile for my small victories over the ordinary. I didn’t tell my friends that I took the bus from San Francisco to L.A., they wouldn’t understand. They’re in it for the destination and not the voyage. I can’t tell them that there were flights, that I actually chose to take the bus, that this is the way I am.

Bradley Charbonneau (Author), Bradley Charbonneau (Narrator)

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Your Full Guide to Owning & Operating a Hospitality Property - Successfully: Independent Hotel, Reso

How do I open or grow my hotel, a resort, inn, or bed & breakfast? This is a question I am often asked, but before I answer, let me begin by asking you a couple of questions. Is the idea of being your own boss sound appealing to you? Is the thought of sharing your corner of the world with guests intriguing? Have you ever thought about owning or operating your own hospitality property, but are not sure or the steps to take to ensure success?If you have answered YES to any of these questions, this book is for you. In this book, I will share you more than just quick-fix tactics but instead how to develop successful long-term operation methods. For easy use, this book is divided into four separate series. Series #1 - Your Hospitality Property Organizational Structure Series #2 - Employee Development Series #3 - Marketing for Your Hospitality Properties Success Series #4 - How Do You See Your Property? What you will learn here will help you stay two steps ahead of your competition, increase your bookings and patronage, while enjoying a fun & fulfilled life as a hotelier/innkeeper. As a travel authority with decades of bed & breakfast visitation experience, I wanted to share my expertise and knowledge with potential bed & breakfast owners who do not have the benefit of a ready-made organizational structure, branding and marketing that chain properties provide.

Gerry Macpherson (Author), Gerry Macpherson (Narrator)

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Five Walks Through Montpelier: What Are You Looking At?! Walking Tours

Welcome to Montpelier!One of the nicest things about being in the smallest state capital in the country is that it’s easy to walk around and see almost everything without feeling overwhelmed. The catch is, you don’t always know what you’re looking at. Whether you are a visitor or a long-time resident, you might find yourself strolling around the historic downtown, enjoying its vintage character, and wishing you had just a little more of the backstory. Who lived in those gorgeous old single-family homes on Main Street? What is that red castle-looking thing across the street from the State House? Why does the library have two names? In these five walking tours around the heart of the city, Montpelier native Kathryn Guare is your companionable guide, bringing the history of her hometown to vivid life by sharing stories of its highs and lows, its heroes and ghosts, its well-known sights and hidden treasures. She also makes sure you get the most out of what the city has to offer today – pointing out what you’ll find inside the restaurants and shops along the route; where to find recreational trails for every season; what venues feature live music, from chamber orchestras to heavy metal. Also, as any good guide should, she hits every mouth-watering bakery in town. This guide is perfect for: - Visitors: It will make you linger in the capital of Vermont a little longer than you might have expected to. - New Residents: Get up to speed quickly on your new hometown. - Long-time Residents: You will look with fresh eyes at the places you’ve known for years…and learn something new about them.

Kathryn Guare (Author), Kathryn Guare (Narrator)

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Harvest: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects

'An exceptional first book; Harvest is a subtle, fascinating braiding of travel, cultural and natural history ... It is a pleasure and an education to journey with him in these pages' Robert Macfarlane In a centuries-old tradition, farmers in northwestern Iceland scour remote coastal plains for the down of nesting eider ducks. High inside a vast cave in Borneo, men perched atop rickety ladders collect swiftlets' nests, a delicacy believed to be a cure for almost anything. Eiderdown and edible birds' nests: both are luxury products, ultimately destined for the super-rich. To the rest of the world these materials are mere commodities but to the harvesters they are all imbued with myth, tradition, folklore and ritual, and form part of a shared identity and history. These objects are two of the seven natural wonders whose stories Harvest tells: eiderdown, vicuña wool, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano and edible birds' nests. Harvest follows their journey from the wildest parts of the planet, traversing Iceland, Indonesia, and Peru, to its urban centres, drawing on the voices of the gatherers, shearers and entrepreneurs who harvest, process and trade them. Blending interviews, history and travel writing, Harvest sets these human stories against our changing economic and ecological landscape. What do they tell us about capitalism, global market forces and overharvesting? How does a local micro-economy survive in a hyper-connected world? Harvest makes us see the world with wonder, curiosity and new concern. It is an original and magical new map of our world and its riches.

Edward Posnett (Author), Roy Mcmillan (Narrator)

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