Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart
Author(s): Diccon Bewes
Travel writer Diccon Bewes embarks on a historical train ride following the route taken by Thomas Cook in the nineteenth century. Thomas Cook in June 1863 began his first ever, conducted tour - the round trip would take 3 weeks and was a rail journey travelling from London to Lucerne. The success of this tour meant that Cook became a household name and gave rise to modern mass tourism. With the aid of a diary written by a female passenger documenting the trip day by day, Diccon Bewes follows the footsteps of these early tourists.
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Diccon Bewes is a travel writer. A world trip set him up for a career in travel writing, via the scenic route of bookselling. After ten years at Lonely Planet and Holiday Which? Magazine, he decamped to Switzerland, where he has until recently managed the Stauffacher English Bookshop in Bern. As well as grappling with German, re-learning to cross the road properly, and overcoming his desires to form an orderly queue he has spent the last five years exploring this quirky country. Following the incredible success of Swiss Watching he is now a full time writer. See his website at www.dicconbewes.com
General Fields
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- : Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- : Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- : 01 November 2013
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Diccon Bewes
- : Hardback
- : Hardback
- : 914.940474
- : 914.940474
- : 320
- : 320
- : illustrations
- : illustrations