The Art of Traveling - Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton offers us a travel guide, but a different one: an exploration of what makes us travel, and what we learn along the way. Few activities promise us so many pleasures as travel: going to another place, a far place with more beautiful weather, customs, and sights. However, with so much advice on the places we travel to, we are rarely asked why we go and how we can be more satisfied when we travel. With the help of an eclectic group of writers, artists and thinkers, including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth and Van Gogh, Alain de Botton presents ideas of great value. It's the perfect antidote to those bulletins telling us what to do. The Art of Traveling tries to give us useful suggestions to make us happier on our travels. Number of pages: 240