Geography of Bliss : One Grumps Search for the Happiest Places in the World

English

ISBN: 044669889X

EAN: 9780446698894

Category: Travel / Essays & Travelogues

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Release Date: 06/26/2011

Synopsis: Part 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 authors case, moments of un-unhappiness. The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

Awards: Original Voices Award – null 

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Geography of Bliss : One Grumps Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 5.25 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 10.9 oz

Pages: 368