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Product Description: Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow.
Even as de Botton takes the reader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such distinguished fellow-travelers as Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh, the biologist Alexander von Humboldt, and the 18th-century eccentric Xavier de Maistre, who catalogued the wonders of his bedroom. The Art of Travel is a wise and utterly original book. Don’t leave home without it.
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Rating : - Answers many of your questions Many a times on the first day of a trip, I have sat in my hotel room overcome by lethargy, wondering "what's wrong with me." the Art of Travel tells me that I am not the only one who wastes his travel time so. and more importantly it tells me why I am like that.
The book answers many questions such as Why many times in the middle of trips we feel a sense of disappointment? Or why we like art? Or even why in places of beauty we find graffiti such as "Rajgond was here"?
What's more, for a book that refers to so may poets, philosophers and artists, the questions are answered in a very accessible and practical way. Definitely a 4+.
- Answers many of your questions
