The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner shows a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. In Switzerland, Weiner travels the country by train. The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is.

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The Geography of Bliss is a tough book to nail down. In the Netherlands, Weiner visits Ruut Veenhofen, who researches what makes people happy.

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." In The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World he plots a map of happiness (for lack of a better description) and then travels to some of the happiest countries in the world to find out why their people are happy. In his 2008 nonfiction book, The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner travels the world in search of happiness. The Geography of Bliss. It is all of those things, and more. Weiner then produces an atlas of happy places to visit.

Book Summary. Mr. Weiner’s findings reveal, that government of Switzerland makes decisions based upon happiness and the well being of their country.

The book takes a reader through various locations in the world, from the America to India to Switzerland in search of happiness, or as the author puts it, moments of “un-unhappiness.” I like to think of it as a philosophical humorous travel memoir. Introduction The Geography of Bliss is the title given to a book written by Erick Weiner and published in 2009 by Grand Central Publishing. It defies categorization. While in the Netherlands, Weiner smokes hashish.