Tourism 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: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
    • By: Edward J. Larson
    • Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • The Journey That Changed the World
    • By: John Man
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In 1271 a young Italian merchant named Marco Polo embarked on a groundbreaking expedition from Venice, through the Middle East and Central Asia to China....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
    • By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole....

    Regular price: $19.77

    • Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Crown of the Continent
    • By: Randi Minetor
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Dillard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • Adventures in the wilderness can be dramatic and deadly. Glacier National Park's death records date back to January 1913, when a man froze to death while snowshoeing between Cut Bank and St. Mary....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
    • By: Giles Tremlett
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • The appearance, more than 60 years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting" - the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 677 ratings
    • In The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
    • By: Jerry Dennis
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • If fresh water is to be treasured, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. One of them, Superior, is the largest lake on earth....

    Regular price: $24.49

    • Pure City
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • An Irreverent History of Travel
    • By: Shahnaz Habib
    • Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures.

    Regular price: $17.19

    • True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, and Survival
    • By: Stephen Brennan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 371 ratings
    • Experience the true “great outdoors” through the stories of the men who lived it.....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing rather than left-wing....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
    • By: Barbara Savage
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles from Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Impossible Country
    • By: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Journey on Foot
    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 737 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places comes an engrossing exploration of walking and thinking....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • By: Luc Sante
    • Narrated by: Luc Sante
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Other Paris is an audiobook meant to upend the story of the French capital, to reclaim the city from the bon vivants and the speculators, and to hold a light to the works and days of the forgotten poor....

    Regular price: $25.79

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    • A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History
    • By: Susan Cahill
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years....

    Regular price: $17.19

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