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Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart
Diccon Bewes
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Description for Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart
Paperback. This is the 'fascinating and charming' (Spectator) account of two trips, one glimpsing the future of travel, one revisiting its past. It is the story of a tour that changed both Switzerland and the world of travel forever. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
In 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. Guided by her diary, he followed the same route to discover how much had changed and how much hadn't. She went in search of adventure, he went in search of her, and found far more than he expected. Slow Train to Switzerland is the captivating account ... Read more
In 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. Guided by her diary, he followed the same route to discover how much had changed and how much hadn't. She went in search of adventure, he went in search of her, and found far more than he expected. Slow Train to Switzerland is the captivating account ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857886511
SKU
V9781857886511
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Diccon Bewes
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart
A delightful accessible throw-away style which is both amusing and endearing.
The Cultural Traveller
This book gives an excellent history of our favourite country, not the usual battle of this or war of that, but at the much more personal level of the common people's everyday lives. Even those of us who think we know a lot about ... Read more
The Cultural Traveller
This book gives an excellent history of our favourite country, not the usual battle of this or war of that, but at the much more personal level of the common people's everyday lives. Even those of us who think we know a lot about ... Read more