The Art of Travel is Alain de Botton's travel guide with a difference 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 & landscapes But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to we seldom ask why we go & how we might become more fulfilled by doing so With the help of a selection of writers artists & thinkers
- including Flaubert Edward Hopper Wordsworth & 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 The Art of Travel tries to explain why we really went in the first place
- & helpfully suggests how we might be happier on our journeys' Richly evocative sharp & funny De Botton proves himself to be a very fine travel writer indeed' Sunday Telegraph' Delightful profound entertaining I doubt if de Botton has written a dull sentence in his life' Jan Morris' An elegant & subtle work unlike any other Beguiling' Colin Thubron The Times