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Author : T A Williams
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008182590
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book What Happens in the Alps... written by T A Williams and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling romantic comedy guaranteed to have you dreaming of the sunny slopes!
Author : Jim Ring
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571276490
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book How the English Made the Alps written by Jim Ring and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For English read British which is not to quibble with the title but, as Jim Ring himself explains, 'During the period on which this book focuses, it was the custom - in the words of a Scot - ''to let the part - the larger part - speak for the whole.'' Those countries which received them - France, Italy, Austria, Germany, and above all Switzerland - all talked of the English, and the presence of the English in the Alps was precisely so described. To use the term British would thus have been an anachronism.' The nineteenth century will forever be associated with the growth of the British Empire, but nearer home there was a quieter conquest taking place. Gradually the English were taking over the Alps, scaling their peaks, driving railways through them, and introducing both winter sports and those quintessential English institutions - tea, baths, lawn tennis and churches - to remote mountain villages. Jim Ring tells the remarkable story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings with the Romantic movement, when poets such as Byron and Shelly wrote of the mountains with awed delight, through the great days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing. Part history, part biography, How the English made the Alps brings the characters - the artists, the scientists, the gentleman-adventurers, the invalids, the aristocrats, eccentrics and mountain-scramblers - vividly to life. 'Jim Rings's book cannot be bettered.' Daily Mail 'Fascinating' Stephen Venables, Daily Telegraph 'Evocative and entertaining' Financial Times 'A comprehensive, well-written account of a fascinating subject' Guardian
Author : Melody Carlson
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1493431951
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Christmas in the Alps written by Melody Carlson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a time of heartache and loss, Simone Winthrop discovers a tantalizing letter from her French great-grandmother, which seems to suggest that she is heir to a family treasure. Ever practical, Simone assumes the claim is baseless, but her best friend encourages her to find out for sure. Despite her deep-rooted fear of flying, Simone boards a jet to travel to Paris at Christmastime to uncover the truth. During the long flight, Simone meets the charming Kyle Larsson, who's on his way to France to become an apprentice clockmaker. Though they abruptly part ways, an unexpected rendezvous in the French Alps at Simone's family's clock factory may lead to the discovery of the family treasure . . . and so much more. For anyone who is wearying of staying home, Melody Carlson invites you to spend Christmas with her in the beautiful French Alps this year. So pull on your mittens, tie your scarf tight, and prepare yourself for a magical mountain holiday.
Author : Sir William Martin Conway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Alps from End to End written by Sir William Martin Conway and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Alpine Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Apple
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307490521
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Schlepping Through the Alps written by Sam Apple and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties. When New York-based writer Sam Apple hears about this one-of-a-kind eccentric, he flies overseas and signs on as a shepherd’s apprentice. For thoroughly urban, slightly neurotic Sam, stumbling along in borrowed boots and burdened with a lot more baggage than his backpack, the task is far from a walk in Central Park. Demonstrating no immediate natural talent for shepherding, he tries to earn the respect of Breuer’s sheep, while keeping a safe distance from the shepherd’s fierce herding dogs. As this strange and hilarious adventure unfolds, the unlikely duo of Sam and Hans meander through a paradise of woods and high meadows toward awkward encounters with Austrians of many stripes. Apple is determined to find out if there are really as many anti-Semites in Austria as he fears and to understand how Hans, who grew up fighting the lingering Nazism in Vienna, became a wandering shepherd. What Apple discovers turns out to be far more fascinating than he had imagined. With this odd and wonderful book, Sam Apple joins the august tradition of Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson. Schlepping Through the Alps is as funny as it is moving.
Author : Stephen O'Shea
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634191
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond written by Stephen O'Shea and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries.” —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea ("a graceful and passionate writer"—Washington Post) takes readers up and down these majestic mountains. Journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia, he explores the reality behind historic events and reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture and society.
Author : Essie Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moon Over the Alps written by Essie Summers and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday romance turned sour and Penny returned home to Christchurch. She took a governess's post at a high-country station where she discovered that she was not free of her holiday romance after all.
Author : Sara Rosett
Publisher : Sara Rosett
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Murder in the Alps written by Sara Rosett and published by Sara Rosett. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cold-blooded killer lurks in the luxurious winter wonderland of St. Moritz . . . Switzerland, 1924. Lady sleuth Olive Belgrave is set to enjoy a holiday of ice-skating and snowshoeing in the glamorous alpine setting of St. Moritz, but her plans are rudely interrupted when an unfortunate accident takes place. It quickly becomes clear that the tragic event was a carefully concealed murder. Olive isn’t one to shy away from a challenge, and with her sharp intuition and knowledge of the high society set, she uncovers motives among the elite guests. However, this case is one of the most challenging she’s faced. Her suspects include a famous lady mountaineer, an up-and-coming fashion designer, a mousy lady’s maid, and several gentlemen sportsmen who seem to be only interested in tobogganing, ice-climbing, and the new sport of skiing down the mountain slopes. Can Olive find the cunning killer and solve the impossible crime before it’s too late? If you enjoy puzzling mysteries set among the glitz and glamor of the 1920s, you’ll enjoy Murder in the Alps, the latest installment of USA Today bestselling author Sara Rosett’s High Society Lady Detective series.
Author : Johanna Spyri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Heidi written by Johanna Spyri and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
