BOOK REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: The Geography of Bliss

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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World Author: Eric Weiner Publisher: Twelve (January 3, 2008) ISBN-10: 0446580260 ISBN-13: 978-0446580267

Have you ever wanted to travel to the happiest place on earth? Ok, you probably thought of Disney World just then.  Actually that is not where I am talking about and neither is the author of this book.

He travels to varies destinations around the globe to find the happiest places.  His travels land him in The Netherlands, Switzerland, Bhutan, Qatar, Iceland, Moldova, Thailand, Great Britain, India, and America.

Interesting places all detailed as to why he considers them to be a happy place.

Overall, a very interesting book about places I will probably never see.

Book Description

Part travel memoir, part humorous self-help guide, an award-winning journalist and self-proclaimed “chronic grump” takes readers on an unforgettable journey in search of the happiest place on earth.

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.

About the Author

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. (Representation: Sloan Harris, ICM).

 

GIVEAWAY

Courtesy of the publisher, I have one copy of this book to giveaway. List price of this book is $25.99.

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The deadline to enter this giveaway is Monday , January 14th @ 11:59 pm EST.

I will drawn one winner at random on Tuesday and announce it here on my blog as well as notify the person via email.

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