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The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness by Michael Mackay Richards

The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness runs 12.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Michael Mackay Richards (about 8.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.4listening hrs
Biography & Memoirstore shelf
2025released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.4 hours of listening.

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What our data says

  • At 12.4 hours, it runs longer than 85% of the 31,282 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness is an audiobook by Michael Mackay Richards: a 12.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael Mackay Richards, released May 6, 2025, on the Biography & Memoir and Travel Tips shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.4 hrs
Narrated by
Michael Mackay Richards
Released
May 6, 2025
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Biography & Memoir, Travel Tips
ISBN
9798228507876

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness as an audiobook?

The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness runs 12.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.3 hours.

Is The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness?

The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness is narrated by Michael Mackay Richards.

Is The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.3 hours, saving 4.1 hours.