The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World - Couverture souple

Weiner, Eric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 044619963X ISBN 13 : 9780446199636

Editeur : Twelve, 2008

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"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?

"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

"Think Don Quixote with 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

"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 Bliss is no smiley-face emoticon, it's a Winslow Homer."―Henry Alford, author of Municipal Bondage and Big Kiss

Quatrième de couverture :

What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between...

After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all.

* He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one)

* He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life.

* 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Twelve
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 044619963X
• ISBN 13: 9780446199636
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352