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Slow Train to Switzerland

Paperback • 2016 • English

Slow Train to Switzerland

By Diccon Bewes

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9781857886511

Publisher

John Murray Press

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Slow Train to Switzerland

Format

Paperback

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