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The Art of Travel - Alain de Botton

Description: ISBN 0140276629 / Genre: Politics / Society / Philosophy / Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere far from home. ... more

The Art of Travel - Alain de Botton ... Somewhere with better weather, more interesting customs and more inspiring landscapes. So why are we so often dissatisfied with the reality of travel? In The Art of Travel Alain de Botton, author of the bestselling The Consolidations of Philosophy, takes us on a journey through the satisfactions and disappointments of travelling.

Newest Review: ... at home". To illustrate this point, de Botton draws upon the life and works of the French writer, Flaubert. As a child ... more

... and into young manhood, Flaubert was obsessed with the idea of going to Egypt, known in those days as the Orient. He wrote that France bored him and he bemoaned the prospect of spending his life practising law in some provincial backwater. Flaubert saw the Orient as a place where people were not concerned with the topics which ocupied the people he met each day at home - "taxes and road improvement". However, when he finally visited Egypt, Flaubert was beside himself with grief - he hated the place, found it...more

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The Art of Travel - Alain de Botton: Stimulate your grey matter (1070 words)
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The thought of taking a holiday, spending time away from work and home - the scenes we know well, fills most of us with excitement and pleasure. We look forward to visiting places we consider more beautiful or which offer a more appealing lifestyle than our everyday experiences.Television programmes, holiday brochures and guidebooks offer a wealth of recommendations on where to go and what to see when we get there. In "The Art of Travel", Alain de Botton considers why we chose those destinations in the first place, why we are often disappointed by the reality of our travel experiences and what we can do to avoid this degree of disappointment. As ... Read the complete review

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