Interview with Alain de Botton
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.13.03 | 4:22 PM ET
Alain de Botton, author of last year’s highly-praised book “The Art of Travel,” spoke with Terry Gross on the public radio program Fresh Air on Tuesday. The refreshing twenty-minute long conversation—perhaps the longest radio or television interview with a travel book author I’ve heard or seen since we launched this travel media weblog almost two years ago—covered a wide range of travel topics, including de Botton’s book, the lure of travel brochures and how travel expectations are often far different from the reality of experiences.