The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Weiner, Eric

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ISBN 10: 0446580260 ISBN 13: 9780446580267

Casa editrice: Twelve, 2008

Riassunto

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

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Recensione:

"Laugh. Think. Repeat. Repeatedly. If someone told me this book was this good, I wouldn't have believed them." (Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do With My Life?)

"With one single book, Eric Weiner has flushed Bill Bryson down a proverbial toilet, and I say that lovingly. By turns hilarious and profound, this is the kind of book that could change your life. The relationship between place and contentment is an ineffable one, and Weiner cuts through the fog with a big, powerful light. The Geography of Bliss is no smiley-face emoticon, it's a Winslow Homer." (Henry Alford, author of Municipal Bondage and Big Kiss)

"Part travelogue, part personal-discovery memoir and all sustained delight, this wise, witty ramble reads like Paul Theroux channeling David Sedaris on a particularly good day..... Fresh and beguiling."

(Kirkus Reviews 2007-01-00)

"Think Don Quixote with a dark sense of humor and a taste for hashish and you begin to grasp Eric Weiner, the modern knight-errant of this mad, sad, wise, and witty quest across four continents. I won't spoil the fun by telling if his mission succeeds, except to say that happiness is reading a book as entertaining as this." (Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic)

L'autore:

Eric Weiner, an award-winning foreign correspondent for NPR and a former reporter for the New York Times, has written stories from more than three dozen countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. His commentary has appeared in The New Republic, The International Herald Tribune, and The Los Angeles Times, and he writes the popular "How They Do It" column for Slate. He has lived in New Delhi, Jerusalem and Tokyo.

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• Editore: Twelve
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0446580260
• ISBN 13: 9780446580267
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 329