"Springtime, after a winter cooped up, and everyone wants to hit the road," she writes, paraphrasing his zestful Canterbury pilgrims. Raised in Minnesota, educated by nuns, she long sought to reconcile her Roman Catholic school appreciation of the "inner voice" with her "native" Midwestern trait: "the desire to be elsewhere." Early in THE ART OF THE WASTED DAY (Viking, $26), she reaches back to Chaucer to grasp the roots of wanderlust. LIKE A LITERARY companion to Google Earth, a host of new books zero in on points across the globe from Alaska to Iran, the Middle East to Mesoamerica, Khartoum to Calcutta and, of course, Paris (we'll always have Paris), providing highly individual answers to the question: Why do we travel? Patricia Hampl isn't sure we should. Her engaging and elegant prose makes Alone Time as warmly intimate an account as the details of a trip shared by a beloved friend-and will have its many readers eager to set off on their own solo adventures"- more Rosenbloom incorporates insights from psychologists and sociologists who have studied solitude and happiness, and explores such topics as dining alone, learning to savor, discovering interests and passions, and finding or creating silent spaces. Each section spotlights a different theme associated with the joys and benefits of time alone and how it can enable people to enrich their lives-facilitating creativity, learning, self-reliance, as well as the ability to experiment and change.
The destinations-Paris, Istanbul, Florence, New York-are all pedestrian-friendly, allowing travelers to slow down and appreciate casual pleasures instead of hurtling through museums and posting photos to Instagram. Alone Time is divided into four parts, each set in a different city, in a different season, in a single year. y aware of the sensual details of the world-patterns, textures, colors, tastes, sounds-in ways that are difficult to do in the company of others.
Through on-the-ground reporting and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how being alone as a traveller-and even in one's own city-is conducive to becoming acutel. "A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of travelling solo In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when travelling. Alone time Four seasons, four cities, and the pleasures of solitude
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