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  The Art of Travel (Vintage) (Paperback) By (author) Alain de Botton

  

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  Short Description for The Art of TravelThe author of "How Proust Can Change Your Life" explores what the point of travel might be and modestly suggets how we can learn to be a little happier in our travels.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books
  • Published: 11 May 2004
  • Format: Paperback 272 pages
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  • Categories: Philosophy | Personal Development | Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9780375725340 ISBN 10: 0375725342
  • Sales rank: 7,270

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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.