Week at the Airport

Name: Week at the Airport
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ISBN: 9780307739674

ISBN-10: 0307739678

ISBN-13: 9780307739674

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alain De Botton

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From the bestselling author ofThe Art of Travelcomes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization. Given unprecedented access to one of the worldrs"s busiest airports as a "writer-in-residence," Alain de Botton found it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of the modern world-from our faith in technology to our destruction of nature, from our global interconnectedness to our romanticizing of the exotic. He met travelers from all over and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots to the airport chaplain. Weaving together these conversations and his own observations-of everything from the…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/21/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English