The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place"

"An exploratory journey through the airport"--

In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in

The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before ... Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying mach

The people of Playtown are out and about at the shops, the park, the airport and more in this highly detailed lift-the-flap board book. Each of the busy scenes