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.
關於作者:
Eric Weiner, an award-winning foreign correspondent for NPR
and a former reporter for the New York Times, has written stories
from more than three dozen countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan,
and Indonesia. His commentary has appeared in The New Republic, The
International Herald Tribune, and The Los Angeles Times, and he
writes the popular "How They Do It" column for Slate. He has lived
in New Delhi, Jerusalem and Tokyo.