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The Art of Travel

The Art of Travel

de Botton, Alain

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Travel GeneralTravel Writing

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0375725342
ISBN13: 9780375725340
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 11 2004
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will give one an expansive sense of wonder (The Baltimore Sun).

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 refreshing and profoundly readable book (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Don't leave home without it.

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