Anna McNuff has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 9 ratings. The most-rated is The Pants of Perspective.
The Pants of Perspective
Summary
"A thrilling, coming-of-age journey that will make you yearn to go on your own adventures.” (Runner's World) Anna was never anything like those "real" runners on telly - all spindly limbs, tiny shorts, and split times - but when she read about New Zealand’s 3,000-kilometer-long Te Araroa Trail, she began to wonder...perhaps being a "real" runner was overrated. Maybe she could just run it anyway? Travelling alone through New Zealand’s backcountry for 148 days, she scrambled through forests, along ridgelines, over mountain passes, along beaches, and across swollen rivers. Running up to 52 kilometers in a day, she slept wild most nights and was taken into the homes and hearts of the Kiwi people in between. The Pants of Perspective is a witty, colorful, and at times painfully raw account of a journey to the edge of what a woman believes herself to be capable of. It is a coming-of-age story that will lead you on a roller-coaster ride through fear, vulnerability, courage, and failure. For anyone who has ever dreamt of taking on a great challenge but felt too afraid to begin - this story is for you.
©2017 Anna McNuff (P)2018 Anna McNuff
50 Shades of the USA
Summary
"Just then, a train of thought rumbled into motion and a soft voice asked me a question. It was almost a whisper. ‘What are you doing here?’ it said. ‘You are building a career, Anna,’ came the reply from another more sinister voice. ‘But are you building a life?’ said the soft voice again. And for that I had no answer." Disillusioned with corporate London life and with no previous experience as a long-distance cyclist, Anna decides to clamber atop a beautiful pink bicycle (named Boudica) and set out on an 11,000-mile journey on her own, through each and every state of the USA. Dodging floods, blizzards and electrical storms, she pedals side by side with mustangs of the Wild West, through towering redwood forests, past the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains and on to the volcanos of Hawaii. Along the way, she meets record-breaking grandmas, sings with Al Green at a gospel service, and does her best to avoid becoming a grizzly bear's dinner. 50 Shades of the USA is a down-to-earth, heartfelt, and hilarious account of an adventure through a country well-known, but far less well-understood. It is a stunning tale of self-discovery told through the eyes of a woman who couldn't help but wonder if there was more to life, and more to America, too.
©2018 Anna McNuff (P)2020 Anna McNuff
Llama Drama
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Why take the shortest, most direct route through life, when you could choose the wiggliest, most mountainous one possible? Armed with a limited grasp of Spanish and determined to meet as many Lamas as possible, Anna and her friend Faye set off on a six-month journey along the spine of the largest mountain range in the world - the Andes. Beginning in the bustling city of La Paz, the duo pedal south - through dense jungle, across pristine white salt flats and past towering volcanoes, following the path of thundering glacial rivers to the snow-tipped peaks of Patagonia. Sleeping wild in their tents most nights, they endure 50-mph crosswinds and catastrophic crashes, and go head to head with one very determined saddle sore called Sally. By the time they make it to the southernmost tip of the continent, they have cycled 5,500 miles and ascended over 100,000 metres through the mighty Andes - equivalent to 11 times the height of Everest. Told from the seat of Anna's bicycle, Llama Drama is a witty and compelling account of life at its rawest and most rich. For anyone who has ever wanted to journey through the stunning natural landscapes of South America - this story is for you.
©2020 Anna McNuff (P)2020 Anna McNuff
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El Principito [The Little Prince]
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La obra maestra de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, un clásico que ha fascinado a niños y adultos desde su publicación en 1943. Por su estilo, los niños se sienten invitados a escuchar el audiolibro de El principito; por su contenido profundo y metafórico, los adultos también se sienten atraídos por él. Saint-Exupéry escribió esta novela corta a partir de sus experiencias como piloto de guerra en el desierto del Sahara. Es la historia de un aviador que se encuentra con un niño, al que llama “Principito”, y que tiene el don de decir las cosas tal como son, no como parecen ser. El principito en realidad no es un terrícola, sino que vive en un asteroide, desde donde llegó a la Tierra después de haber visitado diferentes planetas. El audiolibro contiene las historias que el niño le cuenta al aviador sobre los distintos encuentros que ha tenido en los planetas que ha visitado y donde ha conocido a un montón de adultos encerrados en sí mismos, como un rey sin súbditos, un narcisista sin admiradores, un borracho avergonzado de su alcoholismo, un comerciante convencido de poseer las estrellas, un farolero y un geógrafo experto en mapas pero que desconoce los territorios reales. El principito también le cuenta acerca de los encuentros que ha tenido en el planeta Tierra, y cómo ha extraído enseñanzas sobre el amor, la soledad y la amistad a partir de ellos. Los oyentes disfrutarán especialmente la narración de esta obra literaria que hace la booktuber Raiza Revelles con su voz juvenil. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2012 Ediciones Suromex, S.A. (P)2018 Audible, Inc.