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...

Travel the world with Eric Weiner, the New York Times bestselling author of The Geography ofBliss, as he journeys from Athens to Silicon Valley—and throughout history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places ...