The Art of Travel

Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.

From the ordered streets of Amsterdam to the wilderness of the Sinai desert, Alain de Botton transports the readers to a wide array of sights with a unique group of guides consisting of artists, philosophers, explorers, and authors (leading the way of course by himself.)
A mix of travel memoir and philosophy with a dash of history, I felt that this book was made for travelers through and through. More than just the destination, De Botton reflects on everything from why we go traveling in the first place, to what our expectations of our journeys might be, and what we might end up facing in the end.
A funny, gripping, reflective piece of writing.