The Art of Travel

Synopsis

A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will “give one an expansive sense of wonder” (the baltimore sun). 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.