The art of travel / Alain de Botton.

Main entry:

De Botton, Alain, author.

Title & Author:

The art of travel / Alain de Botton.

Publication:

London : Hamish Hamilton, 2014.

Description:

261 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references.
Departure (On anticipation ; On travelling places) -- Motives (On the exotic ; On curiosity) -- Landscape (On the country & the city ; On the sublime) -- Art (On eye-opening art ; On possessing beauty) -- Return (On habit).

Summary:

Few activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to, we seldom ask why we go and how we might become more fulfilled by doing so. With the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers - including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth and Van Gogh - Alain de Botton's bestselling The Art of Travel provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. The perfect antidote to those guides that tell us what to do when we get there, it tries to explain why we really went in the first place - and helpfully suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.

ISBN:

9780241970065 (pbk.)
0241970067

Subject:

De Botton, Alain Travel.
De Botton, Alain.
Travel Philosophy.
Voyage Philosophie.
Travel.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317647
Call No.: 317647
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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