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The Geography of Bliss

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Description for The Geography of Bliss Paperback. What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? This travel book evaluates each country's different sense of happiness. It shows how the author in his quest to find the world's happiest places, eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.

What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between...

After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all.

·He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552775083
SKU
9780552775083
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About Eric Weiner
Eric Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio in the US. He has been based in New Dehli, Jerusalem and Tokyo and has reported from more than thirty countries. He's also served as a correspondent for NPR in New York, Miami and, currently, Washington D.C. Weiner is a former reporter for the New York Times ... Read more

Reviews for The Geography of Bliss
Part travelogue, part personal-discovery memoir and all sustained delight, this wise, witty ramble reads like Paul Theroux channeling David Sedaris on a particularly good day...Fresh and beguiling."
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