In search of happiness
January 21, 2008 § Leave a comment
As a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, Eric Weiner has spent much of his career traveling to some of the world’s least happy places — Iraq and Afghanistan among them. With his first book, “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World,” he decided it was time for a change of approach. “What if, I wondered, I spent a year traveling the globe, seeking out not the world’s well-trodden trouble spots but, rather, its unheralded happy places?” he writes …
In Brief: “The Geography of Bliss” (The Barnes & Noble Review)