The Art of Travel - Alain de Botton

Category: Adults, Literature, Self-help
Language: English
Keywords: Personal Success Philosophy Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary

Written by Alain de Botton
Read by Nicholas Bell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
· Release date: 02-01-13
· Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Alain de Botton FRSL is a Swiss-born British author and philosopher. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy’s relevance to everyday life.

Any good travel guide 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.

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.

The book was written in 2002 and some people think is out of date. When will philosophy, personal success and travel ever go out of date?

The book is divided into 6 sections and each section into numerous chapters. I put it in the sections only. An ebook is included