The Art of Travel Fiction_Gift_Guide Picking up where Rise of

Picking up where Rise of the Wolf leaves off

And when the queen’s soldiers—led by a paranoid prince—catch up to Vesper’s father after twelve years on the run

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is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance

The Art of Travel Fiction_Gift_Guide Picking up where Rise ofA wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will give one an expansive sense of wonder (The Baltimore Sun). Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of