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The Geography of Bliss
Eric Weiner
One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Grand Central Publishing
January 2008
On Sale: January 3, 2008
332 pages
ISBN: 0446580260
EAN: 9780446580267
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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
Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options
limited by the government? 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.
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