All the best in Switzerland / Sydney Clark. With illustrations and maps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Sydney, 1890-1975.

Contributor:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Sydney Clark travel book

A Sydney Clark travel book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Switzerland--Description and travel.

Switzerland.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

[Second print.].

Place of Publication:

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954.

Contents:

The Foreground of the Picture. Heaven is in Europe; Gates without locks; The facts of lodging and living; Knowledge in advance; Electrified rails to everywhere; Lake and river steamers; Gabriel's Horn on Alpine roads; General and holiday abonnement tickets

The Background of the Picture. Fact and legend of the past

Yourself in the Picture. Geneva and its crescent lake; Climbing the Rhone to its ice cradle; Berne, the hub of holiday; Interlaken and its orbit; Lucerne, still the reigning queen; Zurich, metropolis on the Limmat; Ticino, where Switzerland speaks Italian; The Canton of the Gray Leagues; The principality of Liechtenstein, a marvelous midget; The memory chest.

Notes:

Map on lining papers.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

OCLC:

1334945464