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  • A Brief History of Japan cover art

    • A Brief History of Japan

    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings

    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

    • By: Eric Newby
    • Narrated by: James Bryce
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

    • A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth....

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    • My Indian Odyssey

    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Vincent Ebrahim, star of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Kumars At No. 42, explores....
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    • The Nepali Flat

    • By: Gordon Alexander
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

    • Join Gordon Alexander in Nepal as he drags his "heavy ass" over the Himalayas in this hilarious, adventure-soaked account of the Three Passes Trek, culminating in a visit to Everest Base Camp....

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    • Peking to Paris

    • Life and Love on a Short Drive Around Half the World
    • By: Dina Bennett
    • Narrated by: Katherine Dyer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • In this thrilling road trip from "Peking to Paris", a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking down....

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  • Greater Than a Tourist - Phnom Penh, Cambodia cover art

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    • Tokyo Junkie

    • 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
    • By: Robert Whiting
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world....

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    • The Ogre

    • Biography of a Mountain and the Dramatic Story of the First Ascent
    • By: Doug Scott
    • Narrated by: Saethon Williams
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • On a July 1977 day, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival....

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  • I Could Have Been a Dreamer cover art

    • I Could Have Been a Dreamer

    • Cycling China in the Wrong Gear and Bound for Thailand (Rambling On)
    • By: Graham Field
    • Narrated by: Graham Field
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • In this, the 2nd Audio book of the Rambling On trilogy, the load gets lighter and the speed slower, but Graham Field’s objective remains the same: he is fully focused on making the route to his demise as pleasurable as possible. And so the quest to his Chinese destiny begins.

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    • Strange Stones

    • By: Peter Hessler
    • Narrated by: George Backman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage....

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    • Slowly Down the Ganges

    • By: Eric Newby
    • Narrated by: James Bryce
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • On his 44th birthday, Eric Newby sets out on an incredible journey: to travel the 1,200-mile length of India's holy river. In a misguided attempt to keep him out of trouble, Wanda, his life-long travel companion and wife, is to be his fellow boatwoman....

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    • India: A Wounded Civilization

    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....

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  • Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn: A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran cover art

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    • Not Quite Paradise

    • An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
    • By: Adele Barker
    • Narrated by: Adele Barker
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • A chronicle of life on the resplendent island.....

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  • Just Crazy Enough to Work cover art

    • Just Crazy Enough to Work

    • How to Fail on the Silk Road
    • By: Stu Nugent
    • Narrated by: Stu Nugent
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Stu Nugent was never a good candidate for a round-the-world cycling trip. He was, and remains, a coward. In a flash of uncharacteristic daring, he attempted to cycle the Northern Silk Road, from Shanghai to Europe. He failed. He failed dramatically....

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    • Persimmon Wind

    • A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan
    • By: Dave Lowry
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Persimmon Wind - part memoir, part martial arts history, and part travelogue - relates Dave Lowry's experiences as he travels to Japan to reunite with his sensei....

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    • In Vespa

    • Da Roma a Saigon
    • By: Giorgio Bettinelli
    • Narrated by: Alberto Onofrietti
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-21
    • Language: Italian
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    • Durante un soggiorno in Indonesia Giorgio Bettinelli riceve in regalo una vecchia Vespa. Fino ad allora non aveva mai guidato un veicolo a due ruote. Dopo il suo "apprendistato scooteristico" attraverso l'Indonesia, decide di tornare in Italia per intraprendere un viaggio da Roma a Saigon...

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  • Japan: Cities, Sights & Other Places You Need to Visit cover art

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    • Walking to Samarkand

    • The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia
    • By: Bernard Ollivier, Dan Golembeski - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Series: Longue Marche Series, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • Walking to Samarkand is journalist Bernard Ollivier's stunning account of the second leg of his 7,200-mile walk from Istanbul, Turkey, to Xi'an, China, along the Silk Road—the longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time....

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