Diccon Bewes: 4 books
Slow Train to Switzerland
One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
"Bewes' breezy prose makes him a pleasant traveling companion ... he clearly knows Switzerland inside and out." - The Spectator
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...
Swiss Watching
Inside the Land of Milk and Money
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
New updated edition, new statistics and Epilogue One country, four languages, 26 cantons, and 7.5 million people (but only 80% of them Swiss): there's nowhere else in Europe like it. Switzerland may be almost 400 km from the nearest drop of seawater, but it is an island at the centre of Europe. Welcome...
False Friends
51 Ways to Be Misunderstood
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Wenn ein englischer 'chef' ein 'preservative' verwendet, ist das nicht dasselbe, wie wenn ein Chef ein Präservativ benutzt. Falsche Freunde (auf Englisch false friends) wie diese sind die Fettnäpfchen einer Fremdsprache: Wörter, die zwar ähnlich klingen wie die, die wir kennen, die jedoch eine ganz...
Swisscellany
facts & figures about Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Fact lovers will enjoy this treasure-trove of serious and not-so-serious facts and figures about Switzerland - a collection of lists that will amuse and enlighten you with things you never dreamed you'd enjoy knowing. You can learn how to play Hornussen, be able to sing along to the Swiss National Anthem...