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Based on dozens of interviews with men and women who have relocated to Switzerland for their partners' career, The Trailing Spouse Reimagined explores the real challenges and true joys of life abroad as a trailing partner. Expat readers everywhere will be inspired by the personal and professional dexterity of these often-invisible travelers. Swiss readers will learn about their neighbours from abroad. This book is for anyone who has ever moved...

Finally, the real history of Switzerland for clever kids and clever kids-at-heart: dukes slaughtered by filthy peasants, innocent "witches" hung up by their necks, buried gold, female mountaineers and, of course, all those murderous cows... Not the fake history of Heidi and William Tell, but 'Swisstory' - from ancient mountain people right up to women's right to vote. Hilariously illustrated by bestselling Swiss artist Michael Meister (The Mon...

The Landscape of Swiss Wine' introduces readers to Switzerland's wines and the extraordinary landscapes that give rise to them. Sue Style explores how vine cultivation has shaped the landscape down the centuries, and introduces the reader to Switzerland's best winemakers. The most comprehensive guide to Swiss wine and vineyards available in any language An unbiased and authoritative survey of Switzerland's finest vintages Featuring over 60 vin...

For nearly twenty years, Margaret Oertig-Davidson's 'Beyond Chocolate' has stood as the definitive guide to living and working among the Swiss. Now comes an all-new edition, for an all-new Switzerland-a country that has firmly arrived in a multicultural, globalised age. Oertig-Davidson examines the Swiss through the eyes of hundreds of people who have lived and worked here, and her insight will help any reader gain respect and understanding fo...

Bergli Book's Hoi Guides are the best-selling Swiss German guides of all time, now with over 50, 000 copies in print. The original English-Swiss German survival guide has been completely updated for this tenth anniversary edition, which features a larger format and all new-cartoons. Now you too can enjoy speaking Swiss German. With this survival guide's over 200 cartoons and 2000 words and phrases, it's not just easy, it is downright fun.

Featuring 52 gardens open to the public across Switzerland, Gardens Schweiz / Suisse / Switzerland is the perfect book for avid gardeners, keen botanists, or simply anyone who loves the outdoors. Each garden entry includes a description in English, French and German, as well as important visitor information, must-see recommendations, and more than 100 lush colour photos. Garden designer and journalist Hester Macdonald enlightens readers with d...

SOMETIMES THE BEST QUESTIONS ARE THE ONES YOU NEVER THOUGHT TO ASK Could a tsunami strike Switzerland? Do Swiss cows commit suicide? Do you need a Phd to vote in Swiss elections? Could the whole world sleep in Switzerland? Is Swiss hydropower really clean? What happens to a corpse in a crevasse? These and 60 other questions open like trapdoors on a bizarre and bewitching Switzerland. Why Do The Swiss Have Such Great Sex? provides the answers-a...

Wild Swim guides you to nearly 100 alpine plunges, urban floats, and forest dips across Switzerland. With swim descriptions in English, German, and French, as well as convenient maps and practical insights into transport, safety and access, Wild Swim makes a new kind of summer adventure possible, from glacial dives to safe, family fun.

Pilgrims and traders, soldiers and refugees, scientists and artists, alpinists and invalids: Switzerland has enticed them for more than two millennia. They have loved it and hated it, cursed it and sung its praises, they have made war and made love, reported on its food and its religion, its peaks and its poverty, its dances and its prisons. In 20 thematic chapters, "O Switzerland!" evokes a complex, ever-surprising nation in the words of over...

[Export edition: for Hardback Swiss edition please order from Switzerland] Switzerland is a mystery right at the heart of Europe. Bestselling author and cartoonist Sergio J. Lievano (Hoi - your Swiss German Survival Guide) joins forces with Weltwoche journalist Wolfgang Koydl (Die Besserkönner) to unravel the enigmas.