A Week at the Airport Contributor(s): de Botton, Alain (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307739678 ISBN-13: 9780307739674 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2010 Click for more in this series: Vintage International |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Aviation - Commercial - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
Dewey: 387.736 |
LCCN: 2010024511 |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.22" W x 8.12" L (0.37 lbs) 112 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2010 Library Journal 09/01/2010 pg. 111 Booklist 09/15/2010 pg. 26 Entertainment Weekly 10/01/2010 pg. 78 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
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