The Geography of Bliss is a great read for those who are interested in exploring the idea of happiness beyond what is conventionally known. The author travels to different parts of the world to understand the nature of happiness and its cultural context. An enjoyable blend of humor, travelogue, and self-help, the book offers readers a fresh perspective on the idea of happiness and what it means to live a good life.

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• Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2008)

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe 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, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy?In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

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