A wayfarer in Switzerland / by James F. Muirhead, with twenty-four illustrations and an end-paper map.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton), 1853-1934.

Contributor:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Switzerland--Description and travel.

Switzerland.

Travel.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C., [1926]

Contents:

Introductory sketch

Bâle

Soleure, Liestal, and a poet

Berne, the confederate capital

The Bernese Oberland

Neuchâtel and about there

Geneva, the international city

Lausanne, Gibbon, and the Lake of Geneva

Castles in Vaud

Zermatt

Lucerne and the forest cantons

Two lovely and motor-free valleys

Zurich, a city of light and learning

Schaffhausen, St. Gall, and Appenzell

Vulcan and Mæcenas in Winterthur

A small but sturdy canton

Italian Switzerland

The Grisons

Switzerland by courtesy

The last load

Sport in Switzerland

Mountaineering

Switzerland and tuberculosis.

Notes:

Map on front lining-paper.

"First Published in 1926."

"This little volume is not a guide-book and not a compendium, but something of each ... the author has dealt with those Swiss places and themes that most interested him, especially when they seemed among those least adequately handled by previous English writers."--Preface.

Includes index.

Publisher's advertisements: [8] pages at end.

Local Notes:

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

Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

4282648