Swiss Watching

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Swiss Watching is a revealing historical journey around Europe's most individual and misunderstood country. From seeking Heidi and finding the best chocolate to reliving a bloody past and exploring an uncertain future, Swiss Watching proves that there's more to Switzerland than banks and skis, francs and cheese.
In Swiss Watching, Deacon Bewes looks inside Europe's landlocked "island" of Switzerland. Travelling around one of the most individual and misunderstood country in Europe, Bewes asks what lies beyond the emblematic stereotypes of the Swiss and what does life really look like from the inside?
In a land of cultural contradictions, where tradition and innovation are comfortable bed fellows, Swiss Watching proves that there is more to Switzerland than cheese, clocks, banks and army knives. It’s also the story of a country whose people have more power than their politicians but can’t speak to each other in the same language and of the place which, whilst being the HQ of the International Red Cross, reportedly owns more guns per head than the people of Iraq.
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Weight 0.365000
Author Bewes Diccon
Availability IP
Department Travel Writing
Edition 2nd ed
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781857885873
Pages 336
Published 22/03/2012
Publisher Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Section Travel Writing: General
Size Unfolded 13.5x21.5cm
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