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Tuesday, 27 April, 2010
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 1929
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
The Alps, a Culural History by Andrew Beattie (Oxford University Press 2006)
Early Travellers in the Alps by Sir Gavin de Beer, 1930
Time Capsule: Literary trails through Switzerland
Historian Natasha Proietto takes a look at the Western and Central Switzerland through the eyes of literary greats such as Lord Byron and his poem of Chillon Castle:
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Some great literary and cultural references:
Historic and Cultural Walking Trails all over the country
Further reading:
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 1929
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1818
The Alps, a Culural History by Andrew Beattie (Oxford University Press 2006)
How the English Made the Alps by Jim Ring (John Murray London, 2000)
Early Travellers in the Alps by Sir Gavin de Beer, 1930
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