The Art of the Wasted Day -- Patricia Hampl

#ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial:https://mediabooks.space/il-3905/Title: The Art of the Wasted Day Author: Patricia Hampl Narrator: Patricia Hampl Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins Release date: 04-17-18 Ratings: 4.1 out of 5 stars, 48 ratings Genres: Authors Publisher's Summary: The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated 18th-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind.