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Jupiter's Travels
- Written by: Ted Simon
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Ted Simon
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
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On October 6, 1973, Ted Simon knew there was no going back. He loaded up his 500cc Triumph Tiger in the pouring rain and said good-bye to London. Over four years he rode 64,000 miles round the world. Breakdowns, revolutions, war, a spell in prison, and a Californian commune were all part of his experience, which was colored variously by utter despair and unimaginable joy. He was treated as a spy, a god, a welcome stranger and a curiosity
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superb
- By Placeholder on 25-08-23
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Jupiter's Travels
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Ted Simon
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 02-09-15
- Language: English
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The Whispering Land
- Written by: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Following on from the events in A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land sees Gerald Durrell and his wife Jacquie travel to Argentina to collect animals for their newly established zoo. With rare insight and unique charm, Durrell pulls the listener into the tropical landscape of Patagonia, where he witnesses magical moments with penguins, seals and ocelots, and encounters a hilarious cast of characters, including a swearing parrot and a belching guanaco.
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unique story
- By Linda W. on 03-06-24
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The Whispering Land
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 30-01-19
- Language: English
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A Zoo in My Luggage
- Written by: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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A Zoo in My Luggage is the colorful, first-hand account of Gerald Durrell's six-month animal-collecting trip in British Cameroon, and his attempts to create his own zoo. Motivated by a passion for wildlife, and a desire to save endangered species from extinction, Durrell assembles a glorious panoply of exotic animals - including a female baboon called Georgina, who later runs amok in a department store; a black-eared squirrel, who tries to bury nuts in his ear; and a gentlemanly chimpanzee named Chumly, who greets him with an outstretched hand.
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Amazing
- By Vikram Bhide on 05-05-23
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A Zoo in My Luggage
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 19-12-18
- Language: English
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Dreaming of Jupiter
- Written by: Ted Simon
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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When Ted Simon rode 64,000 miles round the world on his 500c Triumph Tiger, he inspired thousands of motorcyclists to begin their own adventures, including Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, who chronicled their travels in Long Way Round. Nearly 30 years later, Ted Simon took to the road again to retrace the epic journey he made in his 40s. He meets up with old friends and acquaintances, revisits old landmarks and locations, and rediscovers himself, as well as the world, along the way.
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Amazingly Inspiring and WOW what an insight.
- By GPS Waraich on 03-10-19
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Dreaming of Jupiter
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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Full Tilt
- Ireland to India with a Bicycle
- Written by: Dervla Murphy
- Narrated by: Emma Lowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphy's 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle, and the trials, landscapes, and cultures she encountered along the way. The route takes her through the valleys and snowy mountain passes of Europe and India to the scorching deserts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the metal of her bicycle, Rozinante (named after Don Quixote's steed), becomes too hot to touch.
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Arabian Sands
- Written by: Wilfred Thesiger
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Travelling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, the Empty Quarter, Oman, and parts of the then Trucial States, crossing and re-crossing around 250,000 miles of this most inhospitable terrain. He was the first European ever to set eyes on the dunes and wadis of these deserts.
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Arabian Sands
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 25-04-18
- Language: English
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Venice
- Written by: Jan Morris
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands". Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry and unity, or seems more patently born to greatness.
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Poetic, scattered narrative
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-24
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Venice
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 09-08-10
- Language: English
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Venice
- Written by: Jan Morris
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands". Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry and unity, or seems more patently born to greatness.
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Venice
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 19-11-10
- Language: English
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Persian Pictures
- Written by: Gertrude Bell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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In 1892, Gertrude Bell visited Persia (now Iran) shortly after the appointment of her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, as British minister in Tehran. Three years later came Persian Pictures, Gertrude Bell’s first written work, which presents a series of vivid sketches of Persian culture and society at the time. Bell explores various cities and landscapes, and encounters local characters along the way, providing a unique perspective on Persian life and customs.
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Persian Pictures
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 01-07-24
- Language: English
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The Road to Oxiana
- Written by: Robert Byron
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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In 1933, Robert Byron set off from Venice with his friend Christopher Sykes to explore the architecture of the Middle East. Their long and arduous journey took them from Cyprus and Jerusalem to Syria, Iraq, Persia, Afghanistan, and finally, Oxiana, a tiny country around the river Oxus, which snakes down from Russia into Afghanistan. They travel by any means necessary (truck, camel, horses, and foot), and encounter several setbacks, but their risks are rewarded as they encounter some of the greatest examples of Eastern art and architecture, many of which have now vanished forever.
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The Road to Oxiana
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-19
- Language: English
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Billy Hartman
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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"We are all travelers in the 'wilderness of the world' - travelers with a donkey." So Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to a friend on completing this enchanting account of a journey in rural France in 1878. Alone with his pack-donkey Modestine, and showing total disregard for discomfort, Stevenson relishes to the full his walking tour of the Cevennes.
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- Narrated by: Billy Hartman
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 26-12-99
- Language: English
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The Marsh Arabs
- Written by: Wilfred Thesiger
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds. Now extinct, their ancient way of life is speculated to have existed for 5,000 years, going back to the days of ancient Sumer, and possessed a unique culture found nowhere else in the Middle East. Thesiger documents the tribes' conflicts, traditions, cuisine, relationships, justice systems, and art, and reveals how they built their unique water-borne society
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The Marsh Arabs
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 24-08-18
- Language: English
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A Sentimental Journey
- Written by: Laurence Sterne
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Published just months before his death in 1768, A Sentimental Journey is Sterne's lightly fictionalised account of his own European travels; and being Sterne, it is more about digressions, misunderstandings and risqué jokes than the places he visits. Narrated by the (apparently) innocent Parson Yorick, who appeared in Sterne's other masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, it is full of anecdote and incident, and is far more about the people than the landscapes on the road from Calais.
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A Sentimental Journey
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 23-02-11
- Language: English
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South
- Written by: Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
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On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent from the Weddell Sea to Scott's base at Cape Evans, via the Pole. However, despite the best planning, the ship succumbs to the ice floes of the Weddell Sea, and is subjected to months of uncontrollable drifting before its crew makes a scramble for Elephant Island, where they battle constant cold and starvation.
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South
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 08-11-19
- Language: English
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Rural Rides
- Written by: William Cobbett
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
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Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition, juxtaposing lyrical descriptions of the countryside with criticism of the poverty of agricultural workers. A man of radical politics who encouraged the rural rising of 1830, Cobbett went on to become MP for Oldham and sought to represent the interests of both industrial and agricultural workers. Above all, Rural Rides celebrates agrarian England.
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Rural Rides
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 28-06-22
- Language: English
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