Alain De Botton's The Art Of Travel

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Alain De Botton’s novel ‘The Art of Travel’ follows the structure of a journey with influential figures taking readers on a metaphoric and literal exploration of landscapes. The author explores how landscapes can influence individual’s mindset and inversely, an individual’s mindset can impact on their experience of the landscape.
The motivation to explore new landscapes may be deceptive as expectations do not match reality. Botton employs verisimilitude to represent how advertisements for the travel industry turn ‘readers … into prey by photographs whose power insulted the intelligence and contravened any notions of free will’. These types of advertisements show how people’s imaginations and emotions are manipulated by the desire to seek new
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