As I make my way from Iceland (one of the world’s happiest countries) to Bhutan (where the king has made Gross National Happiness a national priority) to Moldova (not a happy place), I call upon the collective wisdom of “the self-help industrial complex” to help navigate the path to contentment. Using the ancient philosophers and the much more recent “science of happiness” as my guide, I travel the world in search of the happiest places and what we can learn from them. But for The Geography of Bliss, I decided to tell the other side of the story by visiting some of the world’s most contented places. It is all of those things, and more.įor years, as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, I covered a multitude of catastrophes, natural and man-made. I like to think of it as a philosophical humorous travel memoir. The Geography of Bliss is a tough book to nail down.
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