"Happiness is a travel book with a story - it combines pleasing portraits and attractive landscapes with an interesting study into moral and social values around the world."

"They went round the globe in 56 days and combined their interviewee's thoughts with some splendid travel photographs of the people and places they visited."

The intrepid authors of this inspiring travel diary journeyed the world for 56 days in search of an answer. In New York they asked a cab driver, in Tokyo a hairdresser, and in Bangkok a street vendor. People readily offered illuminating opinions and anecdotes on what happiness means to them. The journey is recorded in fascinating snapshots from San Francisco, Bali, India, Laos and more, locating happiness in day-to-day life around the globe.