Life at the Airport (and some flying)
I have a fascination with airports. The combination little kid interest in planes combined with a young adult romance of far away destinations collected on one big board. Airports have become micro-cities that provide all the services you could want and serve as a setting for daily human drama. In monster-sized airports like Frankfurt Rheim/Main you can go grocery shopping, have an emergency root canal done by the on-site dentist or even find adult entertainment. Some of the most most gifted travel writers have used their talents to describe the life of the airport. (By including an article from the Atlantic Magazine, this entry goes against my rule of limiting entries to books only.) 1. A Week at the Airport, Alain De Botton (2009). De Bottom is a gifted writer who can describe the infrastructure of Heathrow Airport while bringing the full set of human emotions and drama into its stark setting. (Jan Morris, a doyen of trave...