The Geography of Bliss

Eric Weiner 지음

Transworld 2014년 10월 30일 출간

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What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between...After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. 쨌He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one)쨌He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. 쨌He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness!쨌He asks himself why the British don't do happiness?In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.

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"Part travelogue, part personal-discovery memoir and all sustained delight, this wise, witty ramble reads like Paul Theroux channeling David Sedaris on a particularly good day...Fresh and beguiling.""

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저자(글) Eric Weiner