A Week at the Airport

A VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL, SEPTEMBER 2010

Copyright © 2009 by Alain de Botton

Photographs copyright © 2009 by Richard Baker

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books Ltd, London, in 2009.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

De Botton, Alain.

A week at the airport / Alain de Botton ; photographs by

Richard Baker.

p. cm.

1. Heathrow Airport (London, England). 2. Airports—England—

London—Social aspects. I. Title.

HE9797.5.G72L625 2010

387.73609421—dc22

2010024511

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