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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 1,045 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 151 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 230 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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    • A 45,000-Mile Adventure
    • By: Monisha Rajesh
    • Narrated by: Monisha Rajesh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • A witty and irreverent look at the world and a celebration of the glory of train travel. Rajesh offers a wonderfully vivid account of life, history and culture in an audiobook that will make you laugh out loud - and reflect on what it means to be a global citizen....

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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 260 ratings
    • The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia....

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    • An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
    • By: Jake Adelstein
    • Narrated by: Jake Adelstein
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up....

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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: J. Maarten Troost
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • When the travel bug bit, J. Maarten Troost took on the world's most populous and intriguing nation....

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    • Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich, complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe....

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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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    • Travels in Central Asia
    • By: Lawrence Bransby
    • Narrated by: Lawrence Bransby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • It took Lawrence Bransby and his son, Gareth, three journeys into Central Asia before they were able to ride the legendary Bartang Pass. But it's another pass that becomes the focus of this story - Matts Pass in southern Tajikistan....

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    • Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
    • By: Tim Hannigan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power....

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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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    • 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 Funniest/Worst Place on Earth
    • By: Wendy E. Simmons
    • Narrated by: Jeena Yi
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Most people want out of North Korea. Wendy Simmons wanted in....

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    • An Indian Adventure
    • By: Sarah Macdonald
    • Narrated by: Kate Hosking
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • After backpacking her way around India, Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love - she screams 'Never!' and gives the country, and him, the finger.

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    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India....

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    • Scuba Diving and Backpacking in Southeast Asia (Chronicles of a Motorcycle Gypsy, Book 3)
    • By: Tiffani Burkett
    • Narrated by: Tiffani Burkett
    • Series: Chronicles of a Motorcycle Gypsy, Book 3
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Tiffani wanted a change. She quit her job, shoved her things into a backpack, and booked two one-way tickets to Thailand. She was going to become a scuba diver. So what if she didn’t know how to swim? Chronicles of a Mermaid stands alone as the third book in a series....

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    • By: Writing Souls' Travel Guides
    • Narrated by: JD Kelly
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Kyoto is an enthralling destination for visitors - combining the appeal of an ancient and unfamiliar culture with all the trappings of one of the world powerhouses in knowledge, entertainment, fashion, and innovation. Kyoto has an enthralling and versatile culture. Listen for more....

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