Art of Travel

Name: Art of Travel
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ISBN: 9780375725340

ISBN-10: 0375725342

ISBN-13: 9780375725340

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alain De Botton, Alain De Botton

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.11" wide x 7.97" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English