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    • By: Chris Broad
    • Narrated by: Chris Broad
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001 ratings
    • When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history....

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    • 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 142 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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    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • Winner of the British Book Awards, TV & Film Book of the Year, 2005.

      In his most challenging journey to date, Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth....

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    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Frank Muller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia....

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    • By: Heinrich Harrer, Richard Graves
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 472 ratings
    • A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet....

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    • 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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    • Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
    • By: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Inside India's Incredible Capital
    • By: Dave Prager
    • Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Delhi exists in a kind of quantum state: In Delhi, all things are true at once. When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave and Jenny moved to a city of 16 million people and, seemingly, twice that many horns honking at once....

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    • The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
    • By: Roger Jones
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • For many outsiders, Thailand still conjures up images of the East at its most mysterious and enchanting. Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military....

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    • A Journey to China in 1933
    • By: Peter Fleming
    • Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • One's Company is Peter Fleming's account of his journey through Russia and Manchuria to China when he was Special Correspondent to The Times in the 1930s....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Vincent Ebrahim, star of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Kumars At No. 42, explores....
    • The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
    • By: Alexandra David-Neel
    • Narrated by: Sarah Kempton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Experience Alexandra David-Neel's captivating and inspirational journey to become the first Western woman to reach the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa and be received by the Dalai Lama....

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