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.
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.
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.
Alain de Botton is the the author of On Love, The Romantic Movement, Kiss & Tell, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, and, most recently, Status Anxiety. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in London. More information can be found at www.alaindebotton.com.
目录
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DEPARTURE
I On Anticipation
II On Travelling Places
MOTIVES
III On the Exotic
IV On Curiosity
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DEPARTURE
I On Anticipation
II On Travelling Places
MOTIVES
III On the Exotic
IV On Curiosity
LANDSCAPE
V On the Country and the City
VI On the sublime
ART
VII On Eye-Opening Art
VIII On Possessing Beauty
RETURN
IX On Habit
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3 有用 copyist 2015-04-07 11:01:57
德波顿文笔不错，读英文也不累，最后两章最有意思，其它章节也不错。
1 有用 PikaTina 2017-09-12 21:47:55
处处有他而无他 处处无他而有他 心里的目的地 和真实的目的地 如何耦合 关于爱 关于记忆 关于身体 关于旅行 爱这本书
0 有用 五千公斤罗勒 2016-04-19 10:23:48
1. Wordsworth 那一个篇章，也想去的地方 2. 阿姆斯特丹的路标描写 3. 对旅行的虚妄想象的描写，开头两章，很绝
0 有用 Lin 2009-05-30 18:10:43
此書極好。
1 有用 freedom 2015-07-01 08:12:00
很多时候生活在何处犹如天命很难轻易改变，旅游是让人暂时逃离并追求心中渴望却不拥有的梦。很多人刻意追求梦的数量以及过分美化梦的美好却忽略了其实努力改变现实使其接近梦想才更实际。