Geography of Bliss : One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner (2008, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-100446580260
ISBN-139780446580267
eBay Product ID (ePID)60188181

Product Key Features

Book TitleGeography of Bliss : One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year2008
GenreTravel
AuthorEric Weiner
FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight19.7 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-033433
ReviewsWith 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., 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., 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., 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 Blissis no smiley-face emoticon, it's a Winslow Homer., Laugh. Think. Repeat. Repeatedly. If someone told me this book was this good, I wouldn't have believed them., ThinkDon Quixotewith 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.
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal910.4
SynopsisPart foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of un-unhappiness.
LC Classification NumberG465.W435 2008
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