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"Synopsis: Eric Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio in the US. He has been based in New Dehli, Jerusalem and Tokyo and has reported from more than thirty countries. He's also served as a correspondent for NPR in New York, Miami and, currently, Washington D.C. Weiner is a former reporter for the New York Times and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. After travelling the world, he has settled quasi-happily, in the Washington area, where he divides his time between his living room and his kitchen. What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between...After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. ·He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one)·He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. ·He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness!·He asks himself why the British don't do happiness?In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier. The grumpiest man on the planet goes in search of the happiest place in the world "Part travelogue, part personal-discovery memoir and all sustained delight, this wise, witty ramble reads like Paul Theroux channeling David Sedaris on a particularly good day...Fresh and beguiling."" * Kirkus Reviews * Eric Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio in the US. He has been based in New Dehli, Jerusalem and Tokyo and has reported from more than thirty countries. He's also served as a correspondent for NPR in New York, Miami and, currently, Washington D.C. Weiner is a former reporter for the New York Times and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. After travelling the world, he has settled quasi-happily, in the Washington area, where he divides his time between his living room and his kitchen. What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between...After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. *He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one) *He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. *He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! *He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik.Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier"

""In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization located deep in the deadly wilderness. He never returned. In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann tells the epic story of Fawcett's quest for this 'Lost City of Z," and unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century."--page 4 of cover"

"ABSTRAKDalam skripsi ini dibahas mengenai gambaran perempuan Belanda di Hindia Belanda pada akhir tahun 1930 melalui kisah perjalanan Eens op Java en Sumatra 1948 karya Mary Pos, perempuan penulis dan jurnalis Belanda. Dalam karyanya, Mary Pos terutama menyoroti kehidupan kaum perempuan Belanda di Hindia Belanda. Penggambaran perempuan Belanda yang dituliskan oleh Mary Pos ini berbeda dari karya perempuan penulis perjalanan Belanda sebelumnya. Perempuan Belanda dalam kisah perjalanan ini digambarkan lebih aktif dan banyak disibukkan dengan berbagai kegiatan. Misalnya dalam buku ini dibahas mengenai berbagai pekerjaan yang dilakukan perempuan Belanda seperti pegawai di sebuah kantor, tenaga medis, tenaga pendidik, aktivis gerakan sosial maupun aktivis dalam bidang penyebaran agama, dan bahkan beberapa dari mereka memiliki jabatan tinggi di dalam pekerjaannya. Dengan mengacu kepada konsep mengenai perempuan Belanda di Hindia Belanda awal tahun 1900-an oleh De Wever 2003 dan Gouda 2008 , serta penerapan metode penelitian sejarah serta artikel-artikel dari surat kabar sezaman, maka dianalisis berbagai penggambaran kehidupan perempuan Belanda menurut Mary Pos.

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ABSTRACTThis thesis discusses the description of Dutch women in the Dutch East Indies in the late 1930s through the travel writing of Eens op Java en Sumatra 1948 by Mary Pos, Dutch writer and journalist. In her work, Mary Pos primarily highlighted the lives of Dutch women in Dutch East Indies. In contrast to the work of previous Dutch female travel writers, Dutch women in this travel story are described as being more active and more preoccupied with various activities. One of the example is this book discusses about various Dutch women rsquo s jobs such as employees in an office, medical personnel, educators, social movement activists and activists in the field of spreading religion, and even some of them have high positions in their job. Referring to the concept of Dutch women in the early Indies of the 1900s by De Wever 2003 and Gouda 2008 , also the historical research methods and articles from contemporary newspapers, then various depictions of Dutch women 39 s life according to Mary Pos were analyzed. "