A week at the airport
Subtitle: a Heathrow diary
By: Alain de Botton ; photographs by Richard Baker.
Publisher: Profile
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9781846683596
Subjects: Heathrow Airport (London, England); Airports -- England -- London -- Social aspects
Description: In the Summer of 2009 Alain de Botton was given unprecedented access to Heathrow. He has produced this extraordinary meditation upon the nature of place, time and our daily lives. He explores the magical and mundane, personal and collective experiences and the interactions of travellers and workers all over this familiar but mysterious site.