Art of Travel Gandalf the wizard suggests an

Gandalf the wizard suggests an unlikely accomplice: Bilbo Baggins

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Art of Travel Gandalf the wizard suggests anA 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