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With the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers -- including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth and Van Gogh -- Alain de Botton's bestselling THE ART OF TRAVEL provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing.

The perfect antidote to those guides that tell us what to do when we get there, THE ART OF TRAVEL tries to explain why we really went in the first place -- and helpfully suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.