Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart - Paperback
by Diccon Bewes
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Nicholas Brealey PublishingISBN-13:9781857886511ISBN-10:1857886518UPC:9781857886511Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Europe, Essays & Travelogues, Special InterestBook Topic:Switzerland, LiterarySize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC22DGFT7B
"Bewes' breezy prose makes him a pleasant traveling companion ... he clearly knows Switzerland inside and out." - The SpectatorIn June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half later, travel writer Diccon Bewes, author of the bestselling Swiss Watching, decided to go where she went and see what she saw....
Language:EnglishPublisher:Nicholas Brealey PublishingISBN-13:9781857886511ISBN-10:1857886518UPC:9781857886511Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Europe, Essays & Travelogues, Special InterestBook Topic:Switzerland, LiterarySize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC22DGFT7B
Diccon Bewes is a travel writer. A world trip set him up for a career in travel writing, via the scenic route of bookselling. After ten years at Lonely Planet and Holiday Which? Magazine, he decamped to Switzerland, where he managed the Stauffacher English Bookshop in Bern. In addition to grappling with German, re-learning to cross the road properly, and overcoming his desires to form an orderly...
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