Grumpy journalist travels the globe investigating the happiest nations, blending travel memoir, psychology, science, and wry humor.
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Grumpy journalist travels the globe investigating the happiest nations, blending travel memoir, psychology, science, and wry humor.
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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Brief mention of visiting strip clubs in Bangkok; no explicit sex.
Violence & gore
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No violence or gore depicted
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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Recurring alcohol use; heavy drinking and drunkenness in Iceland.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Meditation in India; Buddhist culture in Bhutan; spiritual practices.
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Democracy, wealth, and national happiness policies across cultures.
Self-harm / suicide
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Notes high suicide rates in some of the world’s happiest nations.
Abuse & suffering
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