The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Autor Eric Weineren Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2009
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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?
In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780446698894
ISBN-10: 044669889X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
Locul publicării:New York, NY
ISBN-10: 044669889X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
Locul publicării:New York, NY
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Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
"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
Blissis
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
"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?
"ThinkDon Quixotewith 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
—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
"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?
"ThinkDon Quixotewith 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
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He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, "The Geography of Bliss" accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.
He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, "The Geography of Bliss" accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.
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