5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk's home-sharing marketplace — enabling homeowners to rent their spaces to travelers — one of the companies that defined the 'sharing economy' and the platform model for physical-world services.
Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 memoir of a year spent in Italy, India, and Indonesia after a painful divorce and depression — eating in Italy, meditating in an ashram in India, and finding love in Bali — one of the bestselling memoirs of the 21st century.
Greek historian from Halicarnassus known as the Father of History — who wrote the Histories, tracing the origins of the Persian Wars from the conflict between East and West through the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea — combining the first systematic historical inquiry with ethnographic curiosity about foreign peoples.
Annual guide published by Michelin since 1900 — originally a free booklet of maps, gas stations, and restaurants to encourage motoring — which evolved into the world's most prestigious restaurant rating system, where receiving or losing a Michelin Star is a career-defining event for chefs.
Marco Polo's account (dictated to Rustichello da Pisa while in Genoese prison) of his travels through the Mongol Empire and China — the first detailed European account of East Asian civilization — which introduced the wealth of China, Persia, and the Mongol Empire to Western readers.