Swissness in a Nutshell
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This illustrated volume aims to answer a simple question: What is Switzerland?
The answer lies in the alpine nation's myths and landscape, its products and its icons, its embarrassing mistakes and its deserved successes. In this accessible guide's more than two hundred full-colour cartoons, photos, and works of art you'll find everything Swiss, from William Tell to Heidi, Swiss Army Knives to cheese, litter-free streets to punctual trains.
This volume is designed for both those new to Switzerland as well as anyone seeking to finally grasp Swiss identity. With delighful cartoons by famed Swiss cartoonist Mix & Remix, the book darts from Winkelried to Roger Federer, the Second World to chocolate, refugees to downhill skiing.
This is the third volume in Bergli Book's In a Nutshell series, which also includes "Swiss History in a Nutshell" and "Swiss Democracy in a Nutshell", and which is the best source for entertaining and illuminating guides to Swiss culture.
This illustrated volume aims to answer a simple question: What is Switzerland?
The answer lies in the alpine nation's myths and landscape, its products and its icons, its embarrassing mistakes and its deserved successes. In this accessible guide's more than two hundred full-colour cartoons, photos, and works of art you'll find everything Swiss, from William Tell to Heidi, Swiss Army Knives to cheese, litter-free streets to punctual trains.
This volume is designed for both those new to Switzerland as well as anyone seeking to finally grasp Swiss identity. With delighful cartoons by famed Swiss cartoonist Mix & Remix, the book darts from Winkelried to Roger Federer, the Second World to chocolate, refugees to downhill skiing.
This is the third volume in Bergli Book's In a Nutshell series, which also includes "Swiss History in a Nutshell" and "Swiss Democracy in a Nutshell", and which is the best source for entertaining and illuminating guides to Swiss culture.
Journal Entry 2 by jacajerezana at Tea-room Le Délice - rue de Bourg in Lausanne, Vaud Switzerland on Thursday, October 5, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (10/5/2017 UTC) at Tea-room Le Délice - rue de Bourg in Lausanne, Vaud Switzerland
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
- in the bookcases on the wall, beside the windows
"Originally, the Geneva fountain was not designed as a tourist attraction: a hydraulic factory was built in 1886 on the river Rhône to provide electricity to the city's manufacturing units and released excess water pressure at night when the workshops were closed. "
"Originally, the Geneva fountain was not designed as a tourist attraction: a hydraulic factory was built in 1886 on the river Rhône to provide electricity to the city's manufacturing units and released excess water pressure at night when the workshops were closed. "
