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(0)Ashley Curtis
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The most incisive writing about Switzerland from the world's most creative minds: from Tolkien to Tolstoy, Petrarch to Prince, Julius Caesar to George Sand. They wrote of wars and money, poverty and peaks, dances and prisons, wolves and fleas. "O Switzerland!" deftly weaves together over 450 first-hand accounts to paint a dazzling and disturbing portrait of an enigmatic land.
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What's the risk of a Swiss tsunami? Could Swiss gold sink the Swiss navy? How many lives does a tunnel cost? You might never have thought you wanted to know what happens to a corpse in a glacier, or how much heroin costs in Switzerland, but once you dip into these 66 fascinating Q&As, you won't be able to put them down.