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Travel the world with Eric Weiner, the New York Times best-selling author of The Geography of Bliss, as he journeys from Athens to Silicon Valley - and throughout background, too - to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel article writer Weiner sets out to analyze the bond between our surroundings and our most ground breaking ideas. He explores the annals of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, historical Athens, Tune Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban adjustments are conducive to ingenuity. And, with his trademark insightful humor, he strolls the same pathways as the geniuses who flourished in these adjustments to see if the nature of what encouraged figures like Socrates, Michelangelo, and Leonardo remains. In these places, Weiner asks, "What was in the air, and can we bottle it?" This link can be tracked back through background: Darwin's theory of progression gelled while he was operating in a carriage. Freud performed his best thinking at his favorite coffeehouse. Beethoven, like many geniuses, preferred long strolls in the woods. Clear and provocative, The Geography of Genius redefines the argument about how exactly genius came to be. His reevaluation of the value of culture in nurturing creativeness is an knowledgeable romp through background that will surely jump-start a national conversation.
