The Art of Travel
SKU:
9780375725340
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Author:
Alain de Botton
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
272
Publication Date:
5/11/2004 0:00
Language:
English
Reading Level:
Adult
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Product Name:
The Art of Travel
ISBN:
0375725342
SKU:
9780375725340
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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 original book. Don’t leave home without it.
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The book, The Art of Travel [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9780375725340 in Paperback by de Botton, Alain may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.