The release date for the English version of 'The Art of Travel' by
Alain de Botton is May 2004. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Any Baedeker will advise us on where to go, but only Alain de Botton will explain the why and how of it. De Botton explores the joys of anticipation, the attraction of the foreign, and the importance of observing anything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow, all with the same wisdom and carefree delight he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life.
While accompanying the reader on his own travels, de Botton also quotes other notable visitors, including Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh, scientist Alexander von Humboldt, and the eccentric eighteenth-century Xavier de Maistre, who wrote a list of the marvels in his bedroom. This book, The Art of Travel, is insightful and completely unique. Never leave your house without it.