Slow Train to Switzerland

One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart

Diccon Bewes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2014
Nicholas Brealey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85788-625-2 (ISBN)

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Slow Train to Switzerland

Diccon Bewes

2016

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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.

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 of two trips through the Alps: hers glimpsing the future of travel, his revisiting its past. Together they make a journey to remember. This is a tale of trains and tourists, of the British and the Swiss, of a Victorian traveller and a modern-day Englishman abroad. It is the story of a tour that changed both Switzerland and the world of travel forever.

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 line, he has spent years exploring Switzerland. Following the incredible success of Swiss Watching he is now a full time writer. See his website at www.dicconbewes.com

Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Schweiz
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Schweiz; Reise-/Erlebnisber.
ISBN-10	1-85788-625-9 / 1857886259
ISBN-13	978-1-85788-625-2 / 9781857886252
Zustand	Neuware