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27%OFFAlain de Botton - ART OF TRAVEL B FORMAT RESIZE - 9780241970065 - V9780241970065
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ART OF TRAVEL B FORMAT RESIZE

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Description for ART OF TRAVEL B FORMAT RESIZE Paperback. Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 294.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to journey's end' Herald

One of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life, presents a travel guide with a difference - an exploration of why we travel, and what we learn along the way...

Few activities seem to promise as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to, we seldom ask why we go and how we might become more fulfilled by doing so.

With the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers - including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth and Van Gogh - Alain de Botton provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel minibars, airports to sightseeing. The perfect antidote to those guides that tell us what to do when we get there, The Art of Travel tries to explain why we really went in the first place - and helpfully suggest how we might be happier on our journeys.


'Delightful, profound, entertaining. I doubt if de Botton has written a dull sentence in his life' Jan Morris

'An elegant and subtle work, unlike any other. Beguiling' Colin Thubron, The Times

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241970065
SKU
V9780241970065
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About Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including The School of Life: An Emotional Education, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love. He is the founder of The School of Life (theschooloflife.com).

Reviews for ART OF TRAVEL B FORMAT RESIZE
Richly evocative, sharp and funny. De Botton proves himself to be a very fine travel writer indeed
Sunday Telegraph
Delightful, profound, entertaining. I doubt if de Botton has written a dull sentence in his life
Jan Morris
An elegant and subtle work, unlike any other. Beguiling
Colin Thubron
The Times
Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening . . . all the way to journey's end
Herald

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