The geography of bliss : one grump's search for the happiest places in the world / Eric Weiner.
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book 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 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 darn happy? NPR correspondent Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780446580267
- ISBN: 0446580260
- ISBN: 9780446698894
- Physical Description: x, 329 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2008.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Chapter 1 Netherlands: Happiness Is a Number 5 -- Chapter 2 Switzerland: Happiness Is Boredom 27 -- Chapter 3 Bhutan: Happiness Is a Policy 49 -- Chapter 4 Qatar: Happiness Is a Winning Lottery Ticket 97 -- Chapter 5 Iceland: Happiness Is Failure 141 -- Chapter 6 Moldova: Happiness Is Somewhere Else 185 -- Chapter 7 Thailand: Happiness Is Not Thinking 219 -- Chapter 8 Great Britain: Happiness Is a Work in Progress 245 -- Chapter 9 India: Happiness Is a Contradiction 275 -- Chaprer 10 America: Happiness Is Home 307 -- Epilogue: Are We There Yet? 321.
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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book 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 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 darn happy? NPR correspondent Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.--From publisher description.
