The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton

ON THE TRAVELING PLACE

The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away- to go, as he concluded"anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world! "

<ON THE SUBLIME>

At the beginning of the 18th century, a word came to prominence by means of which it became possible to indicate a specific response towards precipices and glaciers, night skies and boulder-strewn deserts. In their presence one was likely to experience, and could count on being understood if one reported that one had felt, a sense of the sublime. 

<ON THE COUNTRY AND CITY>

Regular travel through nature was a necessary antidote to the evils of the city. 

by WANGQI