In The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner set out to visit the happiest places on the planet. As a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, he'd covered a multitude of catastrophes and maladies from more than 30 countries over the past two decades, and he decided it was time to investigate the other side of the story.
Using the ancient philosophers and the much more recent "science of happiness" as his guide, Mr. Weiner traveled the world in search of the happiest places.
He made his way from Iceland (one of the world's happiest countries) to Bhutan (where the king has made Gross National Happiness a national priority) to Moldova (not a happy place). He traveled to Switzerland, where he discovered the hidden virtues of boredom; to the tiny—and extremely wealthy—Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, where the relationship between money and happiness is laid bare; to India, where Westerners seek their bliss at the feet of gurus; to Thailand, where not thinking is a way of life; to a small town outside London where happiness experts attempt to "change the psychological climate."
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