false 23422 14 Any Baedeker will tell us <i>where</i> we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us <i>how</i> and <i>why. </i>With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to <b>How Proust Can Save Your Life</b><i>, </i>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. <br><br>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. <b>The Art of Travel</b> is a wise and utterly original book. Don&#8217;t leave home without it. 812271 2002 The Art of Travel total:1097|5:310|4:444|3:274|2:58|1:11| 1097 4275 1870 167 3 16 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 05:47:21 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 05:19:27 -0700 2009 The Art of Travel, Alaine de Botton succeeds in the difficult task of opening the readers eyes to the many perceptual enhancements that travel can provide. It is not a travelogue of wild times in exotic countries, nor an informative list of places one can go. The Art of Travel is abstract, and ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 19:06:08 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 19:07:38 -0700 2009
I think the key messages of the book are well captured in the very first chapter of the book:
• Upon travelling to Barbados, de Botton wakes up the next m...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jul 09 05:54:18 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 20:00:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Jun 29 10:59:33 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 11:09:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 26 13:25:26 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 13:26:17 -0700 2009
My favourite chapter is Departure. I often wonder about the same things as I sit in th...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 12:09:18 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 12:23:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed May 28 09:55:37 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 09:58:30 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 04:25:20 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 02:58:55 -0700 2009
This book is for everyone who has ever been everywhere. Or f...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 09:17:43 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 08:21:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 03 04:27:44 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 04:40:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 19:14:11 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 09:20:10 -0700 2009 I read The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (my first De Botton book) while traveling on vacation and I read the Art of Travel when I returned and was adjusting back to the grind of life. Maybe that wasn't the right order to read them. I'm not sure if this impacted my respective views of these...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 02 19:06:44 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 19:43:44 -0800 2008 2 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 02 10:51:31 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 15 13:29:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Aug 17 16:37:04 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 18:30:14 -0700 2007
1) the focus is very euro- and christian-centric. obvo, de botton is writing about what he knows (euro intelligentsia), but perhaps a book a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 29 12:55:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 12:58:22 -0700 2009
De Botton's words stick with me everytime I leave town, and I love asking t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 09:21:36 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 17:03:43 -0800 2008
The book is cleverly constructed into chapters on types experiences rather than one geographic loc...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 16:40:54 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 16:47:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 22:50:56 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 12:46:20 -0800 2008
...But soon I was won over by his wit and good nature enough to overloo...more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 16 12:34:11 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 12:41:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 12 06:36:40 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 06:38:33 -0800 2009