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For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west—in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India, is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture—and is shaping the modern world. This region, the true centre of the earth, is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself began, where the world’s great religions were born and took root.

The Road Less Travelled is an Australian podcast documenting and capturing the Australian spirit of travel, discovery and adventure. Join your host Nicki Shea where together you'll experience adventures all around Australia. There's always a story involved as each week we are out caravanning, 4WDing, fishing, camping, gold detecting, cooking and exploring places, history and visiting destinations all rolled into each episode. This is a self funded independent podcast, and we would love your support! Got something we should feature, review, discover or explore; drop us a line. For over 25 years...

Join host Celeste Skye as she journeys 4,000 miles along ancient trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean. Discover treasures, bustling cities, and cultural exchanges that defined the Silk Road, and learn why these legendary pathways faded into history. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Join Celeste Skye on a meditative journey exploring roads that stretch beyond the horizon, where traveling matters more than arriving. Through poetry, philosophy, and adventure riding, discover how endless paths transform into meaning, metaphor, and a profound way of experiencing life itself. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Join host Celeste Skye on meditative walks along the world's most enduring roads, from Cotswold footpaths to Silk Road trails. Discover why certain landscapes resist modernity and what timeless journeys reveal about travel, tradition, and the human need for unchanging places. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Brought to you by Penguin. At the heart of this book is a highway. The A1; The Great North Road. A 400-mile multiplicity of ancient trackway, Roman road, pilgrim path, coach route and motorway that has run like a backbone through Britain for the last 2,000 years. In this genre-defying and...

Host Jack Maddox reveals how the Silk Road functioned as the ancient world's internet — a 6,400-kilometer network connecting civilizations for 2,500 years. Discover how merchants, religions, technologies, and even pandemics traveled these routes, building the interconnected global society we know today. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Quand Jules et Mélissa, deux personnes que tout oppose, se retrouvent à travailler ensemble sur un guide touristique dédié au Grand Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, ils sont loin d’imaginer à quel point ce voyage va les changer. Jules est érudit, discret, sérieux et surtout très stressé. S’il a gagné ses galons de rédacteur pour ce guide, c’est parce qu’il a une connaissance très fine de l’histoire et du patrimoine régional. Mais sur le terrain, il a encore tout à prouver. Mélissa, quant à elle, est cultivée, épicurienne, extravertie et joviale. Elle a été recrutée ...

Join host Juniper Snout for the ultimate guide to road-tripping with your dog. Each episode covers essential tips—from packing and route planning to safety and adventure—so you and your furry companion can hit the open road with confidence and create unforgettable memories together. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Brought to you by Penguin. No sex. No kids. No future? When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty-four years later...

As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them. Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry...

A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain.

The audio edition of On the Grand Trunk Road is finally available, revised and updated with new material. Focusing on Coll's journeys in conflict-ridden India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan as a bureau chief for The Washington Post, On the Grand Trunk Road reveals a little-seen area of the world where violence, corruption, and greed have had devastating effects on South Asians from all walks of life.

In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. That lack of direction lead him on a 55,000 mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again.

Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across Northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road. Travelling 7,000 miles in eight months, he traces the passage not only of trade and armies, but of ideas, religions and inventions.

Part travel journal but mostly spiritual guide, Finding Jesus in Israel takes an unvarnished look at the Holy Land with an off-the-bus peek into the people and places that make Israel such an amazing destination. We are shaped and transformed by the oceans we sail, the deserts, mountains, and valleys we wander, and the people we meet along the way. And as any traveler worth his salt knows, the real trip happens within.  

Les Aventuriers de la Vanlilfe est le podcast dédié à celles et ceux qui rêvent de voyager en France, en Europe et autour du monde en van ou fourgon aménagé. Animé par Florent Mounier, ce podcast donne la parole à des passionnés de vanlife, de road trip et de destinations au bout du monde ou à côté de chez soi. Nos invités racontent leurs itinéraires, leurs galères, leurs sentiments de liberté, leurs conseils pour la vie en van, leurs rencontres en fourgon et leurs plus belles découvertes aux quatre coins du globe en camion.Le voyager en van en solo, en couple, entre amis ou ...

In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven out or shot.

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart and became the best-selling travel book ever, and was also...

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get...