How to Travel by The School of Life (English) Hardcover Book

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An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our experiences overseas become truly transformative and memorable.

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Going travelling is one of the few things we undertake in a direct attempt to make ourselves happy - and frequently, in fascinating ways, we fail. We get bored, cross, anxious or lonely. It isn't surprising: our societies act as if going travelling were simple, just a case of handing over the right sum of money. But a satisfying journey isn't something we can simply buy: it's the result of an art that has to be learnt.This is the guide: not to any one destination but to travel in general. It talks to us, among other things, about how we should choose a place to go, what we might do when we get there, how we should make good moments stick in our minds and why hotel rooms can be such liberating places ...In a succession of genial essays, we become students of an unexpected but vital topic: how to understand and more fully enjoy (what should be) some of the finest experiences of our lives.

Notes

Twenty essays to consult on philosophical issues relating to travelling and typical experiences overseas, produced under the direction of series editor Alain de Botton.

Author Biography

Alain de Botton, the founder and Chair of The School of Life, is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' He's written on love, travel, architecture and literature and his books have been bestsellers in 30 countries.The School of Life is devoted to developing emotional intelligence. It addresses issues such as how to find fulfilling work, how to master the art of relationships, how to understand one's past, how to achieve calm, and how better to understand and - where necessary - change the world.

Table of Contents

How to Choose a Destination What Is 'Exotic'? The Suspicion of Happiness Anxiety Small Pleasures Water Towers The Importance of the Sun Travel as a Cure for Shyness The Pleasure of the Airport The Pleasure of the Flight Pretty Cities The Pleasure of Otherness The Longing to Talk to Strangers The Vulnerability of Perfection to Emotional Troubles The Importance of Family Holidays The Pleasure of the Romantic Minibreak The Little Restaurant In Defence of Crowds The Pleasure of Room Service The Pleasures of Nature Drawing Rather than Taking Photographs Holiday Fling Traveling for Perspective Travel and Pilgrimages How to Spend a Few Days in Paris How to Come Home The Advantages of Staying at Home Cherishing Memories The Shortest Trip: Going for a Walk The Shortest Travel Quiz

Review

***What readers are saying: *** "I love this book on the philosophy of traveling alone. I was absolutely riveted by the essays. I highly recommend this book." - NetGalley review"How to Travel helped me narrow down where I want to travel to, why I want to travel there, and who I want to travel with. The blank pages included gave me room to respond to the questions posed in the essays, which made the reading experience that much more enjoyable. I highly recommend this book to anyone who dreams of experiencing a culture or world outside of their own but can't decide on a place." - Feefo review"A lovely collection of thought provoking short essays with note pages for jotting down things like 'useful foreign phrases' or to 'give drawing a go'. So enjoyable, and a perfect gift for someone preparing to travel." - Amazon review"A book for travelers not tourists, little stories of places, people, experiences and peace to feed the soul. Travelling is a journey and every part of the journey needs to be enjoyed, even the airport. Can imagine the author writing beautiful journals to extract just a few of these musings to put into this book. Absolutely loved it and have read it twice." - NetGalley review"How to Travel is the perfect size to slip into your backpack for your next trip. It'll look fantastic next to your passport, and boarding pass. This book is also a great gift for those in your life, whether they travel or not, since there's a lot of information about what staying at home can look like, and how that in itself is a form of travel." - Avocado Diaries

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An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our experiences overseas become truly transformative and memorable.

Long Description

Going travelling is one of the few things we undertake in a direct attempt to make ourselves happy - and frequently, in fascinating ways, we fail. We get bored, cross, anxious or lonely. It isn't surprising: our societies act as if going travelling were simple, just a case of handing over the right sum of money. But a satisfying journey isn't something we can simply buy: it's the result of an art that has to be learnt.This is the guide: not to any one destination but to travel in general. It talks to us, among other things, about how we should choose a place to go, what we might do when we get there, how we should make good moments stick in our minds and why hotel rooms can be such liberating places ...In a succession of genial essays, we become students of an unexpected but vital topic: how to understand and more fully enjoy (what should be) some of the finest experiences of our lives.

Review Quote

***What readers are saying:*** "I love this book on the philosophy of traveling alone. I was absolutely riveted by the essays. I highly recommend this book." - NetGalley review "How to Travel helped me narrow down where I want to travel to, why I want to travel there, and who I want to travel with. The blank pages included gave me room to respond to the questions posed in the essays, which made the reading experience that much more enjoyable. I highly recommend this book to anyone who dreams of experiencing a culture or world outside of their own but can't decide on a place." - Feefo review "A lovely collection of thought provoking short essays with note pages for jotting down things like 'useful foreign phrases' or to 'give drawing a go'. So enjoyable, and a perfect gift for someone preparing to travel." - Amazon review "A book for travelers not tourists, little stories of places, people, experiences and peace to feed the soul. Travelling is a journey and every part of the journey needs to be enjoyed, even the airport. Can imagine the author writing beautiful journals to extract just a few of these musings to put into this book. Absolutely loved it and have read it twice." - NetGalley review "How to Travel is the perfect size to slip into your backpack for your next trip. It'll look fantastic next to your passport, and boarding pass. This book is also a great gift for those in your life, whether they travel or not, since there's a lot of information about what staying at home can look like, and how that in itself is a form of travel." - Avocado Diaries

Excerpt from Book

Travelling for Perspective There's a long tradition of going travelling in search of things we lack. In the eighteenth century, well-off young English men would take trips to Paris and Rome to acquire more elegant manners and study Classical history; today we might travel to find sunshine or nature. But there are many things we struggle with beyond our inability to understand Roman culture or endure a long, wet winter - and travel can help us with them. A central issue is that we are constantly at risk of feeling disenchanted with our circumstances. At a personal level, we are continually exposed to the enviable lives of others; our imaginations are haunted by our comparative lack of success. At a more general level, our societies often appear fundamentally unimpressive: our institutions look compromised, our media seems coarse and sensationalist, our cities feel chaotic. There is, apparently, little to be grateful for. In theory - of course - we know that can't be entirely true. We know, in the abstract, that we're lucky to have enough to eat and a roof over our heads. But such reminders feel emotionally unreal and usually have little impact on their own. For the truth to hit home, we may have to immerse ourselves in true poverty and a genuinely dysfunctional society. We may need to travel to the large parts of the world where people live, on average, on $500 a year or less. We may need to visit a place where it's normal for the police to extort money from you; where a newspaper editor is likely to be arrested for criticising authority; where government is self-evidently tied to violence and corruption; where the opposition is an armed faction; where a fair trial is a rarity; where luxury would be clean sheets or a tube of toothpaste; where there might be excrement in your food or a dead rat under your bed. A city or country where people maddened by toothache pull out their own teeth; where horrendous infections are commonplace; where large numbers of children receive almost no formal education; where, if there is a school, it is quite probable that those in charge are syphoning off the funds; where sewers run openly through the streets; where people spend their days picking over the refuse in huge dumps. We may well end up deeply moved. As importantly, we are invited to change our perceptions of our own lives, to renew our appreciation of so much that we'd taken for granted: a toilet that flushes, a washing machine, space to ourselves, a pleasant lunch. And we may derive a new sense of how profound and powerful the achievements of our own societies - for all their failings - really are. Paradoxical thought it sounds, travels to places where the true hardships of existence are grimly evident can provide a needed education in gratitude. Our encounter with the reality of the lives of so many others pushes us towards a more accurate perspective on our own condition. Like many great artworks in elegant galleries, they teach us to see - and admire - aspects of the world we usually inhabit that we had scarcely noticed before. And they do this with rather more conviction and lasting impact than any canvas on a wall.

Description for Sales People

A COMPACT AND PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDE TO THE ART OF TRAVELING 20 ESSAYS TO INSPIRE WANDERLUST INCLUDES BLANK PAGES FOR NOTES and a built in pocket for saving mementos. FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT

Details ISBN1999917960 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1999917960 ISBN-13 9781999917968 Format Hardcover Media Book Imprint The School of Life Press Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2018-10-18 DEWEY 306.4819 Pages 132 Language English UK Release Date 2018-10-18 AU Release Date 2018-10-18 NZ Release Date 2018-10-18 Author The School of Life Publisher The School of Life Press Audience General We've got this

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