false 32510293 1036726 23422 0375725342 9780375725340 147 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167403526m/23422.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167403526s/23422.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23422.The_Art_of_Travel 3.89 1007 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.]]> 13199 3.80 6740 1025 2002 5 0 false Mon Oct 06 03:14:29 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 05:51:53 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 03:14:29 -0700 2008