A Week at the Airport
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A Week at the Airport by Alain De Botton
From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization.Given unprecedented access to one of the world's busiest airports as a "writer-in-residence," Alain de Botton found it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of the modern world--from our faith in technology to our destruction of nature, from our global interconnectedness to our romanticizing of the exotic. He met travelers from all over and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots to the airport chaplain. Weaving together these conversations and his own observations--of everything from the poetry of room service menus to the eerie silence in the middle of the runway at midnight--de Botton has produced an extraordinary meditation on a place that most of us never slow down enough to see clearly. Lavishly illustrated in color by renowned photographer Richard Baker, A Week at the Airport reveals the airport in all its turbulence and soullessness and--yes--even beauty.
Alain de Botton is the bestselling author of How Proust Can Transform Your Life, as well as a number of other fiction and nonfiction works. He is well-known for making difficult philosophical and artistic topics understandable to a broader audience. De Botton established the School of Life, a series of lectures in London that aims to apply academic knowledge to real-life situations. Following the school's popularity, the concept was expanded into The School of Life book series. De Botton is a British author who lives and works in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307739674 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307739678 |
| Title | A Week at the Airport |
| Author | Alain De Botton |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2010-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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