Travel Stories Audio Books

This is the haunting story of 22-year-old Chris McCandless, who walked into the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992 and whose body--along with a camera with five rolls of film, an SOS note, and a cryptic diary written in the back pages of a book about edible plants--was found six months later by a hunter.

Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path...

This fabulous account of Sir Ernest Shackelton's epic adventure recreates one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August, 1914, the Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic...

They had dreamed of one day trading the long, grey winters and damp summers of England for the blue skies and sunshine of the coast of southern France....

In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence....

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie's extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon…

Frances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer - opens the door to a wondrous new world...

One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told, Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery....

Herodotus, the 5th-century chronicler, scarcely figured in the curriculum when famed Polish writer and traveler Kapuscinski was going to university just after WWII.

Captain Meriwether Lewis was hand-picked by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and acquire the American West...