Author: Melinda|Schoutens Schoutens (Robert)Publisher:
ISBN: 9783907293508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fresh Air Kids Switzerland 2
Author: Melinda SchoutensPublisher:
ISBN: 9783907293232
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Dieses Buch ist der ideale Reisebegleiter fur Familien mit alteren Kindern, die Ausfluge in den Schweizer Alpen suchen. Mit 32 Wanderbeschreibungen zu Hutten und mehrtagigen Abenteuern werden Familien inspiriert, mehr Zeit in der Natur zu verbringen. Das Buch enthalt Karten, Diagramme und alle notigen Infos fur eine erfolgreiche mehrtatige Route. Das letzte Kapitel ist voller Ideen, um Kinder jeden Alters auf den Wanderungen zu beschaftigen und zu unterhalten. Blattern Sie einfach durch die Seiten, wahlen Sie eine Wanderung aus und schnappen Sie sich Ihren Rucksack. Gehen Sie in dieser Wandersaison mit Zuversicht auf die vorzuglich ausgeschilderten Wanderwege und erleben Sie wunderbare Erlebnisse und unglaubliche Ausblicke.
Author: LAUREN. HOUGHThe Gilded Chalet
Author: Padraig RooneyPublisher: Nicholas Brealey
ISBN: 1473645026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Part detective work, part treasure chest, full of history and scandal, The Gilded Chalet takes you on a grand tour of two centuries of great writing by both Swiss and foreign authors and shows how Switzerland has always been at the center of literary Europe. Two centuries after the Romantics went there to invent Gothic horror, the lure of Switzerland hasn't left us. Writers from the Fitzgeralds to Fleming, Highsmith to Hemingway, Conan Doyle to le Carré, came to escape world wars, political persecution, tuberculosis. They came for sanctuary (from oppression or the tax man), for fresh air and nude sunbathing, for scenery resembling, as Rooney puts it, 'Mother Nature on steroids.' Patricia Highsmith spent her last years in a granite home in Ticino with a fridge containing little but peanut butter and vodka. Hermann Hesse had himself buried to the neck as a cure for alcoholism. Nabokov chased butterflies and played tennis on the hotel courts. When it comes to literature, it seems all roads lead to Switzerland. Padraig Rooney peers through the chalet windows and discovers how Switzerland has influenced some of the greatest authors and characters of literature.
Basel's Hidden Stories
Author: Jeanne DarlingPublisher:
ISBN: 9783038690740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Set children on the tracks of Basel's best ghosts and monsters with this thrilling tour of Basel's old town. Six stories lead through the narrow alleys to a basilisk, a magic swan, a medieval duel and much more, while engaging maps feature what still remains of the old city. Accompanying activities give kids a chance to add their own creativity to the fun. So take this book an head to Basel's streets - all you need is a pencil. Have fun!
Heidi
Author: Johanna SpyriPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539191896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Detie in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Detie's sister and brother-in-law). Detie brings 6-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from D�rfli. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. This has earned him the nickname Alm-Uncle. He briefly resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl's evident intelligence and cheerful yet unaffected demeanor soon earn his genuine, if reserved, affection. Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbors, young Peter the goatherd, his mother, Bridget, and his blind maternal grandmother, who is "Grannie" to everyone. With each season that passes, the mountaintop inhabitants grow more attached to Heidi.
Author: National Geographic KidsThe Monster Book of Switzerland
Author: Jeanne DarlingPublisher: Bergli
ISBN: 9783038690245
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Switzerland is a monstrous place! Will the terrifying Tatzelwurm eat your pigs and dogs? Can fearless Hannah defeat the dismembered ghost that guards the Aargau treasure? And will Basel's kids be turned to stone? In eight stories and 36 fact-filled pages, Switzerland's monsters come to life, accompanying readers on a tour of topics that range from how to dig a tunnel through the mountains to what makes Swiss chocolate unique. Age 4 and up.
Couples
Author: John UpdikePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679645721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
“Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death.”—Time One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias, this one’s existence is brief and unsustainable, but the “imaginative quest” that inspires its creation is eternal. Praise for Couples “Couples [is] John Updike’s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust.”—The New York Times Book Review “Ingenious . . . If this is a dirty book, I don’t see how sex can be written about at all.”—Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Times Book Review
Author: Diccon Bewes