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Whether you want to ski in Zermatt, eat fondue in Zürich, hike around Lake Luzern, or buy a luxury watch in Geneva, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Switzerland are here to help! Fodor’s Essential Switzerland guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with
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"Adrian Weynfeldt is an art expert in an international auction house, a bachelor in his mid-fifties living in a grand Zurich apartment filled with costly paintings and antiques. Always correct and well-mannered, he's given up on love until one night -- entirely out of character for him -- Weynfeldt decides to take home a ravishing but unaccountable young woman. The next morning, he finds her outside on his balcony threatening to jump. Weynfeldt talks...
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Five capitalist democracies around the world - Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Germany - all have health care systems that provide health care for everyone. They have higher life expectancies, lower infant mortality rates, and spend less money than the U.S. for health care. At any given time, at least 45 million Americans do not have health insurance. What lessons can the U.S. learn about health care from other countries? In this video...
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Way up in the Swiss mountains, there's an old grand hotel steeped in tradition and faded splendor. Once a year, when the famous New Year's Eve Ball takes place, and guests from all over the world arrive, excitement returns to the vast hallways. Sophie, who works at the hotel as an intern, is busy making sure that everything goes according to plan. But unexpected problems keep arising, and some of the guests are not who they pretend to be. Very soon,...
86) Red Monkey
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Max Stonecrop, venture capitalist, and Federica Ratzow, pre-med student and polyglot, meet on an overnight train to Venice and then re-connect seven years later when Stonecrop turns up as her patient at Universitätsspital, Zürich. As Stonecrop recovers from a climbing accident and a violent, traumatic experience in Mozambique, they grow close. Federica suddenly vanishes, prompting Stonecrop and Federica's criminal father to team up against Yakuza...
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This guide covers the 9 biking itineraries in Switzerland that are prepared and maintained by the Veloland organization.These touring itineraries include difficult mountain sections that require adequate preparation, but also easy sections that can be done by families with children.Each stage is described with highlights of the localities touched and with a diagram of the elevation for the section.
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"Pedal and Path - Across the Continent A Wheel and A Foot" is a fascinating and entertaining account of the author's seven-month trip across America. From the highlands of the Hudson River to the sprawling suburbs of Denver, the travails and vicissitudes of the author's two-wheeled adventure are here documented for the enjoyment of cycling enthusiasts past and present.
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This is an idyllic chronicle of a three-week-long bicycling holiday in Switzerland in 1896. The author and a companion travelled 1,000 kilometers around the beautiful Swiss countryside, their experiences and travails encapsulated within this profusely illustrated volume for the enjoyment and edification of cycling enthusiasts both contemporary and future. "A Pedaller Abroad" is highly recommended for modern cyclists and fans of classic travel writing...
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On the surface it is a story about a man and his dog traveling and discovering the world around them. But it is more than that. This story is about finding your way in a strange new place and trying to fit in as an outsider. It is about love and grand adventures filled with danger and excitement. It has times full of joy and fun, but it also deals with loss and difficulties.
Mostly it is a book about life, and will have you laughing, crying and glad...
91) Heidi
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An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion for an invalid.
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Roger Federer could live anywhere in the world, but he always returns to the place he loves most: Switzerland. Dave Seminara is a mad traveler and tennis lifer who has written about Federer for The New York Times and other publications. A pair of autoimmune diseases and a knee surgery kept Dave from playing tennis for years, but as he inched toward recovery, he had a bright idea: why not start his tennis comeback on hallowed ground-courts that his...
94) Youth
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Two longtime friends are vacationing in the Swiss Alps. Fred, an acclaimed composer and conductor, who brings along his daughter and best friend Mick, a renowned filmmaker. The two men reflect on their past, each finding that some of the most important experiences can come later in life.
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El descubrimiento de eventos históricos depende de la habilidad del investigador en encontrar documentación primaria de la época. Para este trabajo se han traducido documentos originales escritos en alemán entre 1856 y 1868, con el objetivo de exponer en el peligro de existencia y sobrevivencia en que se encontró la colonia suiza de Nueva Helvecia.
Muchos historiadores comienzan la historia de este pueblo con el Banco "Siegrist y Fender"...
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Le guide des bistrots genevois est de retour !
Le guide des bistrots de Nicolas Burgy et André Klopmann a fait référence durant douze ans. La recette ? Indépendance, ligne, anecdotes et style. En 2012, les compères ont choisi de prendre du recul. Aujourd'hui, les voilà qui reviennent… A trois.
Pour cette septième édition, ils s'adjoignent Marie Battiston. Le regard de cette jeune complice enrichit leur approche.
A travers les bistrots,...
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A meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey across Europe to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian revolution and forever changed the world. In the early spring of 1917, as the First World War stretched on and Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shock waves across Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. When the news reached him, Lenin immediately resolved to return...
100) Cinerama holiday
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Cinerama holiday intercuts between the adventures of two real-life, married couples. First are Switzerland's Fred and Beatrice Troller, who begin their panoramic tour of America in Las Vegas, then wind their way around the US, stopping in San Francisco, New Orleans, New York City, and New England. Meanwhile, Betty and John Marsh of Kansas City board a flight to Switzerland, commencing an immersive European vacation full of bobsled rides and ski trips...
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