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Travel - Asia
Author: Gordon G. Chang | Narrator: Nancy Wu
Release Date: July 13, 2021
China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China s...
Author: Sylvain Tesson | Narrator: David Pittu
Release Date: July 13, 2021
A journey in search of one of the most elusive creatures on the planetAdventurer Sylvain Tesson has led a restless life, riding across Central Asia on horseback, freeclimbing the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, and traversing the Himalayas by foot. But ...
Author: Hannah Kirshner | Narrator: Hannah Kirshner
Release Date: March 23, 2021
"With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life." --Maira KalmanAn immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed f...
Author: Ian Buruma | Narrator: Ian Buruma
Release Date: March 06, 2018
A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970'sWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more th...
Author: Gail Gutradt | Narrator: Lorna Raver
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman’s volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia—a book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacl...
Author: Lisa Napoli | Narrator: Lisa Napoli
Release Date: February 08, 2011
Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan...
Andrew Zimmern visits Japan Cover
Author: Andrew Zimmern | Narrator: Andrew Zimmern
Release Date: September 08, 2009
Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow ...
Andrew Zimmern visits Japan Cover