The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner
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Author: Eric WeinerEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-01-03
ISBN: 0446580260
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Twelve
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Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed reading this - Weiner's humor is similar to Dave Barry and Bill Bryson. Although it is not particularly conclusive, it still provides some food for thought to those wondering if they are in the right place.
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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 author's 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. (2007)Politics Books
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