到外地旅行——多麼令人興奮的念頭啊！通常，人們會找個氣候怡人的地方，見識有趣的風土民情，欣賞能喚起靈感的景物。然而，為什麼成行之後，卻往往覺得猶有遺憾？ 在本書裡，狄波頓帶領我們踏上旅途，從巴貝多、阿姆斯特丹、普羅旺斯、馬德里到西奈沙漠等地，經歷旅行中種種讓人嚮往與失望之處。 狄波頓還安排了許多位嚮導。他們是大名鼎鼎的作家、藝術家或思想家，也是深諳旅行滋味的行家，如梵谷、華滋華斯、福樓拜、波特萊爾、羅斯金，在書中與我們分享旅行的洞見。 透過這些旅程，狄波頓揭露了旅行中隱藏的慾望和錯綜複雜的面相，挑起無法抵擋的神祕幻想，並且指點我們如何提升旅行的快樂指數，遠離煩悶的日常生活，進入一個奇異世界。

Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so. In The Art of...(展开全部)

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. E...(展开全部)

到外地旅行——多麼令人興奮的念頭啊！通常，人們會找個氣候怡人的地方，見識有趣的風土民情，欣賞能喚起靈感的景物。然而，為什麼成行之後，卻往往覺得猶有遺憾？ 在本書裡，狄波頓帶領我們踏上旅途，從巴貝多、阿姆斯特丹、普羅旺斯、馬德里到西奈沙漠等地，經歷旅行中種種讓人嚮往與失望之處。 狄波頓還安排了許多位嚮導。他們是大名鼎鼎的作家、藝術家或思想家，也是深諳旅行滋味的行家，如梵谷、華滋華斯、福樓拜、波特萊爾、羅斯金，在書中與我們分享旅行的洞見。 透過這些旅程，狄波頓揭露了旅行中隱藏的慾望和錯綜複雜的面相，挑起無法抵擋的神祕幻想，並且指點我們如何提升旅行的快樂指數，遠離煩悶的日常生活，進入一個奇異世界。

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. E...(展开全部)

Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so. In The Art of...(展开全部)

Lucid, fluid, uplifting' - "Sunday Times". With the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers - including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth and Van Gogh - Alain de Botton's bestselling "The Art of Travel" provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. The perfect antidote to those guides that tell us ...(展开全部)

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)

The Art of the Steal is the only book that tells the whole truth about the price-fixing scandal that rocked the auction world and put one of America's richest men behind bars. It's the story of billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge-who cheated their clients out of millions un...(展开全部)