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A Week at the Airport

Paperback • 2010 • English

A Week at the Airport

By Alain de Botton

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9780307739674

Publisher

Vintage International

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

A Week at the Airport

Format

Paperback

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