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CLASSIC SWISS ALPS
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Cadogan Guide Switzerland
• Norman Renouf
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 316 PAGES
Completely redesigned with full-color touring maps, new introductions and two-color layout, this new Cadogan Guide Switzerland combines personality, in-depth knowledge and hand-picked sights and recommendations.
(SWZ72, $21.95) |
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Daisy Miller
• Henry James
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 126 PAGES
This classic story of a young American woman's innocent flirtation and its misinterpretation by a sophisticated European man is set in Lac Leman and Chillon. This is James' first fictional work to gain mass popularity and one of his great American female portraits. Daisy, the young American tourist, baffles her Continental lovers with her ingenuousness and blatant honesty. Misunderstandings ensue when the formal, prim Winterbourne misconstrues her innocent flirtations.
(SWZ09, $7.00) |
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I'm Not Stiller
• Max Frisch
LITERATURE •
1994 •
PAPER
• 384 PAGES
Now published for the first time in its entirety, this haunting story of a man in prison who claims not to be himself raises disturbing questions of identity and self-acceptance. A masterpiece of post-World War II fiction, it commands attention from the first sentence and explores many layers of meaning as a Swiss who expatriated himself to America returns home under a pseudonym and denies his Swiss origins in an exercise of self-discovery.
(SWZ08, $27.95) |
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Mont Blanc, Discovery and Conquest of the Giant of the Alps
• Stefano Ardito
EXPLORATION •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 228 PAGES
• COMING IN
With color and archival photographs, historic paintings and illustrations, this handsome book celebrates the history of climbing at Mont Blanc.
(ALP37, $19.99) |
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The Night Manager
• John Le Carre
LITERATURE •
1994 •
PAPER
• 473 PAGES
This best-selling, post-Cold War thriller about ruthless arms dealers in Geneva is a gripping read. Carrying on the great Le Carre tradition of espionage, a man who essentially gave up living after a tremendous failure is given a costly shot at redemption. In the new world order, spies have become their own worst enemies.
(SWZ06, $7.99) |
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A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
• Dorothy Gilman
MYSTERY •
1995 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
A secret agent like no other, feisty grandmother Mrs. Pollifax goes to Switzerland to track down a missing package of plutonium -- just enough to make a small atomic bomb. The fourth in the series.
(SWZ65, $7.99) |
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Swiss Bernese Oberland
• Philip & Loretta Alspach
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 112 PAGES
A brief, illustrated guide to mountains, lakes and villages of the Bernese Oberland, especially valuable for the independent traveler. With 50 color pictures, maps and good information on food, drink, and the mountain villages of Interlaken, Grindelwald, Wengen, Murren and Kandersteg.
(SWZ38, $18.95) |
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Quest for the Sublime, Finding Nature's Secret in Switzerland
• Richard Bangs
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 260 PAGES
• COMING IN
Richard Bangs revisits the Swiss Alps, following the likes of Byron, Shelley, Keats and Wordsworth in an attempt to grasp the Sublime.
(SWZ66, $16.95) |
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