
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).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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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.
About as long, on the Biography & Memoir shelf
2,907 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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Start listening freeQuestions 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?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
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.