The Art of Travel Gary B. Shelly Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007

Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007

“Sweltering Summer” centers on an awkward young man who shrewdly uses the perks of his government position to court two women at once

turning you into the architect of your own joy

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witness events that lead to a forbidden liaison and tragedies that reveal big things lurking unsaid in a country drifting toward unrest

The Art of Travel Gary B. Shelly Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007Any 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. Even as de Botton takes the reader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such