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A book that explores the reasons and meanings behind travelling for pleasure, with insights from history, culture and psychology. It offers a critical and humorous perspective on the joys and disappointments of travel, and how to make the most of it.
May 2, 2002 · The Art of Travel is abstract, and focuses on concepts relating to the inner-self and individual psychology; the internal elements that affect, and are affected by, travel. Through avenues such as poetry, writings from some of histories great travel philosophers, artwork, writings from scenic painters, fetching photographs, and through his own ...
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May 11, 2004 · The Art of Travel. Paperback – Illustrated, May 11, 2004. by Alain De Botton (Author) 4.3 1,299 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
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Jul 30, 2002 · The Art of Travel. Hardcover – July 30, 2002. by Alain De Botton (Author) 4.3 1,281 ratings. See all formats and editions. Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes.
- Alain de Botton
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A book review of The Art of Travel, a collection of essays that explore the philosophical dimensions of travel and how it reflects human search for happiness. The review analyzes each essay's theme, argument, and examples, and compares them with the travel experiences of famous writers and artists.
In the great 19th century novel, Against Nature, by the French writer J.K.Huysmans, the narrator goes on a few holidays which go wrong and then decides never to leave home again. He remains in his study and surrounds himself with a series of objects which facilitate the finest aspect of travel, its anticipation.
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Apr 30, 2002 · Audio Cassette – Audiobook, April 30, 2002. The urge to be somewhere else is one of the abiding traits of human nature; in The Art of Travel author Alain de Botton (The Consolations of Philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life) sets out to discover why in his own inimitably witty and discursive way. Of course, the proximate reasons we ...
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