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Love From Venice
- A golden summer on the Grand Canal
- By: Gill Johnson
- Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance19
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A charming, funny and glamorous memoir and love-story, about a summer in 1957 in Venice, working for an aristocratic Italian family. In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her...
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An Enchanting Memoir
- By gmb on 31-01-24
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Love From Venice
- A golden summer on the Grand Canal
- Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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Eagle Dreams
- Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
- By: Stephen J. Bodio
- Narrated by: Raymond Scully
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story9
When Stephen Bodio was a young boy in the early '50s, he saw an image in National Geographic that became forever etched in his mind: It was a photograph of a Kazakh nomad, dressed in a long coat and wearing a fur hat, holding a huge tame eagle on his fist. And a lifelong fascination with Central Asia was born.
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Interesting trip to Mongolia and Altai Mountains
- By tyto14 on 22-04-25
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Eagle Dreams
- Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
- Narrated by: Raymond Scully
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-04-15
- Language: English
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The Innocents Abroad
- Or, The New Pilgrim’s Progress
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance65
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Story66
In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City. His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler also served as an antidote to the insufferably romantic travel books of the period.
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Hilarious, but poignant
- By Anfisa on 15-07-16
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The Innocents Abroad
- Or, The New Pilgrim’s Progress
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-09-11
- Language: English
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Run Britain
- My World Record-Breaking Adventure to Run Every Mile of the British Coastline
- By: Nick Butter
- Narrated by: Nick Butter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance66
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Story66
Brought to you by Penguin. In the spring of 2021, as the UK's latest pandemic lockdowns were lifted, Nick Butter set out from the Eden Project to become the fastest person to cover ever mile of Britain's mainland coastline on foot. Battling the most extreme winds Britain had seen in 100 years...
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Great accounts of an amazing accomplishment!
- By Ina Aurora Bakkevig on 15-05-23
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Run Britain
- My World Record-Breaking Adventure to Run Every Mile of the British Coastline
- Narrated by: Nick Butter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-03-23
- Language: English
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Don't Come Back
- A Funny Travel Adventure of Bad-Tempered Baboons, Black Magic, and Breakups (Weird Travel, Book 2)
- By: Adam Fletcher
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance10
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Story10
Adam Fletcher's life hates him.... That's how it feels since he lost his girlfriend of nine years, his confidence, hair, and home. But then he receives an email from a mysterious stranger offering him a free holiday of a lifetime. It's too good to be true. But then what does he have to lose? So he says yes. And then things gets strange....
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Further travels to far flung places, with an authentic narrative thread of self-discovery
- By AmazonCustomer on 08-05-22
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Don't Come Back
- A Funny Travel Adventure of Bad-Tempered Baboons, Black Magic, and Breakups (Weird Travel, Book 2)
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Series: Weird Travel Series, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 12-01-21
- Language: English
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The Great Railway Bazaar
- By: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall279
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Performance226
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Story224
The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto, and the Trans-Siberian Express - it describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met.
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I was on the train
- By Colin on 05-04-11
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The Great Railway Bazaar
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-10-10
- Language: English
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Smoke And Ashes
- Opium's Hidden Histories
- By: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance21
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Story21
LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An acerbic, compelling and always accessible account of how opium corrupted the world' TLS 'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph 'A history of the opium poppy, which probes how the drug trade has...
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Some good insights on an underwritten subject but a bit self serving
- By customer on 08-05-25
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Smoke And Ashes
- Opium's Hidden Histories
- Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-02-24
- Language: English
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The Wilder Way
- The Inspiring Travel Memoir of Adventure, Freedom and an Uncharted Life
- By: Eva zu Beck
- Narrated by: Eva zu Beck
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From YouTube adventurer and National Geographic TV host, an inspiring travel memoir of one woman’s solo adventures around the world and her pursuit of freedom. Eva had it all: a high-flying job, a picture-perfect marriage, a lifestyle that many would aspire to. Yet...
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The Wilder Way
- The Inspiring Travel Memoir of Adventure, Freedom and an Uncharted Life
- Narrated by: Eva zu Beck
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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In Patagonia
- By: Bruce Chatwin
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance62
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Story62
Brought to you by Penguin. Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road.
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Travel Writing?
- By Jonathan Charles Cracknell on 01-11-19
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In Patagonia
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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The Wild Places
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall139
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Performance118
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Story117
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
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Terrible narrator, so disappointed.
- By ben on 11-11-20
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The Wild Places
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-10-20
- Language: English
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Standing in a River Waving a Stick
- By: John Gierach
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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With his inimitable combination of wit and wisdom, John Gierach once again celebrates the fly-fishing life in Standing in a River Waving a Stick and notes its benefits as a sport, philosophical pursuit, even therapy: "The solution to any problem-work, love, money, whatever-is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be." After all, fly-fishing does teach important life lessons, says Gierach-about solitude, patience, perspective, humor, and the sublime coffee break.
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Standing in a River Waving a Stick
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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On the Slow Train Again
- By: Michael Williams
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance39
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Story39
Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London’s commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along the shores of the lovely Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. Here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage....
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Excellent
- By Andrew on 05-04-12
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On the Slow Train Again
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-11-11
- Language: English
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Last Days of the Bus Club
- By: Chris Stewart
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall101
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Performance92
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Story91
It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in southern Spain and his daughter Chlöe is preparing to leave for university. We find Chris, a local literary celebrity, using his fame to help his old sheep-shearing partner find work on a raucous road trip; cooking a TV lunch for visiting British chef, Rick Stein; and, most movingly, visiting famine-stricken Niger for Oxfam.
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Sublime story telling
- By Jodie Holyoak on 23-02-23
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Last Days of the Bus Club
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-03-17
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
- By: Colin Thubron
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall141
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Performance89
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Story88
Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across Northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road. Travelling 7,000 miles in eight months, he traces the passage not only of trade and armies, but of ideas, religions and inventions.
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Another world
- By Peter on 14-10-07
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Shadow of the Silk Road
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-08-07
- Language: English
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Tuk-Tuk for Two
- Two Strangers, One Unforgettable Race Through India in a Tuk-Tuk Named Winnie (Weird Travel Series, Book 3)
- By: Adam Fletcher
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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Story22
Driving terrified me; I hadn't done it in a decade. But if I could drive in India, I could drive anywhere. If I drive a tuk-tuk, I could drive anything. And if I said yes, I'd get to spend 10 days with her. Would that be enough time to find out who she was, what she wanted, and then convince her to abandon that and want me instead? There was only one way to find out.
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Taken on a ride through India
- By Dean Ragan on 18-09-25
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Tuk-Tuk for Two
- Two Strangers, One Unforgettable Race Through India in a Tuk-Tuk Named Winnie (Weird Travel Series, Book 3)
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Series: Weird Travel Series, Book 3
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-02-21
- Language: English
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Parisians
- By: Graham Robb
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once an audiobook to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact.
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Parisians
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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The Accidental Detectorist
- Uncovering an Underground Obsession
- By: Nigel Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance81
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Story81
When a travel writer is stuck on home soil in the middle of a pandemic he meets Kris Rodgers, one of Britain's eminent metal detectorists. Dipping a toe in the hobby, Nigel quickly finds himself swept up in the world beneath the surface. Above the ground are a cast of fascinating and passionate...
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A familiar and pleasant book
- By Michael Stanworth on 06-09-22
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The Accidental Detectorist
- Uncovering an Underground Obsession
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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The Edge of Silence
- In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature
- By: Neil Ansell
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Acclaimed nature writer Neil Ansell has suffered from progressive hearing loss his whole life. As his world is becoming ever more silent, he suddenly hears something quite unexpected — the haunting call of the great northern diver. It is this extraordinary experience which makes him realise that there might still be remarkable sounds in nature within his reach — if he can only find himself in the right place at the right time. This moving book charts Neil's mission to hear rare and elusive creatures that he had not previously encountered.
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A moving exploration of the sounds of nature.
- By Ruth on 19-10-25
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The Edge of Silence
- In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-08-25
- Language: English
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Eat, Pray, Love
- One Woman's Search for Everything (Abridged)
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Abridged
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Overall512
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Performance418
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Story421
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her 30s, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.
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Just what you need ...
- By Jacqueline on 23-11-08
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Eat, Pray, Love
- One Woman's Search for Everything (Abridged)
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-11-08
- Language: English
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The Magnetic North
- By: Sara Wheeler
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance7
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Story7
Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controversy. A fascinating combination of history, science and reflection in which Wheeler meditates on the role of the Arctic and how it has been changed by man.
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The Magnetic North
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-01-11
- Language: English
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