Download or read book Switzerland as Described by Great Writers written by Esther Singleton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Switzerland as Described by Great Writers written by Esther Singleton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous Sculpture as Seen and Described by Great Writers written by Esther Singleton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wonders of the World as Seen and Described by Great Writers written by Esther Singleton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Switzerland Ad Described by Great Writers Classic Reprint written by Esther Singleton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Switzerland Ad Described by Great Writers T is inevitable that the author of a work on a country I that is variously known as the Playground of Europe and the Hotel of Europe, should approach his sub jcet in a holiday mood. Therefore, those who write about Switzerland rarely regale their readers with statistics of the country and the results of serious study of the inhabitants. Except in a few districts, which are difficult of access to the tourist, the ancient life and. Customs are rapidly disappearing, and in many places have given place to a rapacious class whose sole object in life is to fleece the foreigner both in town and village. The Oberland is now nothing but a panorama, a vast Show managed and exploited by hotel-keepers of every nationality. There is, however, another Switzerland of peaceful and patriarchal life, where the traveller does not encounter anything conventional, commercial, vulgar, or disturbing. In the following pages, I have endeavoured to do justice to both phases of Swiss life, in drawing on the writings of those who have described it with picturesque ness and sympathy after intelligent study. In the arrangement of the material I have followed the plan of my other books on Holland, Germany, japan and Russia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Gilded Chalet written by Padraig Rooney and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part detective work, part treasure chest, full of history and scandal, The Gilded Chalet takes you on a grand tour of two centuries of great writing by both Swiss and foreign authors and shows how Switzerland has always been at the center of literary Europe. Two centuries after the Romantics went there to invent Gothic horror, the lure of Switzerland hasn't left us. Writers from the Fitzgeralds to Fleming, Highsmith to Hemingway, Conan Doyle to le Carré, came to escape world wars, political persecution, tuberculosis. They came for sanctuary (from oppression or the tax man), for fresh air and nude sunbathing, for scenery resembling, as Rooney puts it, 'Mother Nature on steroids.' Patricia Highsmith spent her last years in a granite home in Ticino with a fridge containing little but peanut butter and vodka. Hermann Hesse had himself buried to the neck as a cure for alcoholism. Nabokov chased butterflies and played tennis on the hotel courts. When it comes to literature, it seems all roads lead to Switzerland. Padraig Rooney peers through the chalet windows and discovers how Switzerland has influenced some of the greatest authors and characters of literature.
Download or read book Report written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swiss Made written by R. James Breiding and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons others can learn and benefit from? Can the Swiss continue to perform in a hyper-competitive global economy? Swiss Made offers answers to these and many other questions about the country as it describes the origins, structures and characteristics of the most important Swiss companies. The authors suggest success is due to a large degree to sound entrepreneurial thinking and an openness to new ideas. And they venture a surprising forecast on the country's ability to keep pace in an age of globalisation.
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