The Art of Travel
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9
Themes
All Themes The Familiar and the Foreign Expectations vs. Reality Art, Travel, and the Search for Happiness The Receptive Self
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Characters
All Characters Alain de Botton M. Duc des Esseintes Charles Baudelaire  Edward Hopper Gustave Flaubert Alexander von Humboldt William Wordsworth Edmund Burke God Job Vincent van Gogh John Ruskin Xavier de Maistre Friedrich Nietzsche Blaise Pascal
Terms
All Terms Traveling Places The Orient The Exotic Spots of Time The Sublime Word-Painting Aesthetic Traveling Mind-Set
Symbols
All Symbols Clouds
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The Art of Travel

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Alain De Botton

The Art of Travel Symbols

Clouds

Alain de Botton and his fellow travelers have sublime encounters with clouds throughout The Art of Travel, and these encounters demonstrate the overwhelming force of nature in addition to the myriad ways people can…

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