Author: Alfred Thomas Story
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267523863
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Excerpt from Swiss Life in Town and Country Romans remained for over three hundred years in the country, and doubtless left their permanent mark upon the population of the land, as well as upon its arts and customs. They at least intro duced the vine, and its cultivation has ever since been one of the leading features of Swiss industry. As the Empire began to totter to its fall, Helvetia was overrun by hordes of Alemanni and Burgun dians, who thenceforward became the permanent occupiers of the land. The former appear to have been the sturdier and fiercer people, and probably it was they who gave those tougher and more enduring elements to the character which we as sociate with the Swiss to the present time. They preserved their ancient tongue, while the Burgun dians, a milder race, adopted the language of the conquered people. Hence it arose that we have to-day the two broadly defined limits of the Ger man and the French-speaking cantons, or dis tricts, for the dividing line does not always coincide with cantonal boundaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Swiss Life in Town and Country (Classic Reprint)
Author: Alfred Thomas Story
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267523863
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Excerpt from Swiss Life in Town and Country Romans remained for over three hundred years in the country, and doubtless left their permanent mark upon the population of the land, as well as upon its arts and customs. They at least intro duced the vine, and its cultivation has ever since been one of the leading features of Swiss industry. As the Empire began to totter to its fall, Helvetia was overrun by hordes of Alemanni and Burgun dians, who thenceforward became the permanent occupiers of the land. The former appear to have been the sturdier and fiercer people, and probably it was they who gave those tougher and more enduring elements to the character which we as sociate with the Swiss to the present time. They preserved their ancient tongue, while the Burgun dians, a milder race, adopted the language of the conquered people. Hence it arose that we have to-day the two broadly defined limits of the Ger man and the French-speaking cantons, or dis tricts, for the dividing line does not always coincide with cantonal boundaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267523863
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Excerpt from Swiss Life in Town and Country Romans remained for over three hundred years in the country, and doubtless left their permanent mark upon the population of the land, as well as upon its arts and customs. They at least intro duced the vine, and its cultivation has ever since been one of the leading features of Swiss industry. As the Empire began to totter to its fall, Helvetia was overrun by hordes of Alemanni and Burgun dians, who thenceforward became the permanent occupiers of the land. The former appear to have been the sturdier and fiercer people, and probably it was they who gave those tougher and more enduring elements to the character which we as sociate with the Swiss to the present time. They preserved their ancient tongue, while the Burgun dians, a milder race, adopted the language of the conquered people. Hence it arose that we have to-day the two broadly defined limits of the Ger man and the French-speaking cantons, or dis tricts, for the dividing line does not always coincide with cantonal boundaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Swiss Life in Town and Country ... With twenty-five illustrations
Author: Alfred Thomas STORY
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Bookseller
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Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
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Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
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Pages : 1532
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Bulletin
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Pages : 112
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The Bookman
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Swiss Life
Author: Chantal Panozzo
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ISBN: 9780990315506
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Life in Switzerland. The not-made-for-TV version. In 2006, American Chantal Panozzo moved to a spa town near Zurich ready for a glamorous life as an expatriate. She would eat chocolate. She would climb mountains. And she would order cheese in four languages. Instead, she lived a life more in tune with reality than fantasy. Contrary to popular American belief, Switzerland isn't just a setting in a storybook called Heidi. It's a real place where someone with a master's degree in communications can't make a phone call, where you can be hired in one language and fired in another, and where small talk doesn't exist-but phrases like Aufenthaltskategorien von Drittstaatsangehörigen do. Swiss Life: 30 Things I Wish I'd Known is a collection of both published (The Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic Glimpse, Chicken Soup for the Soul Books, and Brain, Child) and new essays in which Chantal discovers that no matter how hard she wills her geraniums to cascade properly, she will never be a glamorous American expatriate-or Swiss.
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ISBN: 9780990315506
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Life in Switzerland. The not-made-for-TV version. In 2006, American Chantal Panozzo moved to a spa town near Zurich ready for a glamorous life as an expatriate. She would eat chocolate. She would climb mountains. And she would order cheese in four languages. Instead, she lived a life more in tune with reality than fantasy. Contrary to popular American belief, Switzerland isn't just a setting in a storybook called Heidi. It's a real place where someone with a master's degree in communications can't make a phone call, where you can be hired in one language and fired in another, and where small talk doesn't exist-but phrases like Aufenthaltskategorien von Drittstaatsangehörigen do. Swiss Life: 30 Things I Wish I'd Known is a collection of both published (The Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic Glimpse, Chicken Soup for the Soul Books, and Brain, Child) and new essays in which Chantal discovers that no matter how hard she wills her geraniums to cascade properly, she will never be a glamorous American expatriate-or Swiss.
Public Opinion
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Pages : 742
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The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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