Slow train to Switzerland, one tour, two trips, 150 years -- and a world of change apart, Diccon Bewes
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Slow train to Switzerland, one tour, two trips, 150 years -- and a world of change apart, Diccon Bewes
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Bibliography: pages 291-294
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non fiction
Main title
Slow train to Switzerland
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Diccon Bewes
Sub title
one tour, two trips, 150 years -- and a world of change apart
Summary
It was the tour that changed the way we travel. In the summer of 1863 seven people left London on a train that would take them on a thrilling adventure across the Alps. They were the Junior United Alpine Club and members of Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. For them it was an exciting novelty; for us it was the birth of mass tourism, and it started with the Swiss. A century and a half later travel writer Diccon Bewes set off on the same three-week trip. His quest: follow their itinerary, stay in the same places, and discover how much has changed. And how much hasn't. His guide was Miss Jemima, a member of that Club who wrote a diary as she travelled - a diary that was lost for decades but survived as a unique record of a historic tour...Slow Train to Switzerland is the fascinating account of both trips from London to Lucerne. It's a revealing look at the early days of tourism, when going abroad meant 18-hour days and wearing the same clothes for weeks. And no toilets on the trains! It's also the story of how a nostalgic tour surprised an expat author, revealing a Switzerland very different from the present - and a stunning and unexpected personal connection with the past...That first trip saw the end of travel for a privileged few and the start of tourism for the masses. It also helped transform a poor Switzerland into one of the wealthiest countries on earth. And now it gives us a second chance to experience travel the way it used to be: slow
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adult
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- Switzerland -- Description and travel
- Railroad travel -- Switzerland
- Cook, Thomas, 1808-1892 -- Travel -- Switzerland
- Bewes, Diccon, 1967- -- Travel -- Switzerland
- Railroad travel -- Switzerland -- History -- 19th century
- Nonfiction
- Morrell, Jemima, 1832-1909 -- Travel -- Switzerland
- National characteristics, Swiss
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- Classification1
- Creator1
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- Switzerland -- Description and travel
- Railroad travel -- Switzerland
- Cook, Thomas, 1808-1892 -- Travel -- Switzerland
- Bewes, Diccon, 1967- -- Travel -- Switzerland
- Railroad travel -- Switzerland -- History -- 19th century
- Nonfiction
- Morrell, Jemima, 1832-1909 -- Travel -- Switzerland
- National characteristics, Swiss
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- Author1