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|title=Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart

|author=Diccon Bewes

|publisher=Nicholas Brealey Publishing

|date=November 2013

|summary=A book that revisits a very early package tour diary with the modern-day equivalent, and one that is a charming yet educational delight, especially for fans of this pocket of Europe.

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After several years in my position in relation to the book industry (on the periphery but left a bit – and round the bend a lot) I am never surprised at what has a market. Every niche has either been filled, or is getting there. So when I found in looking into this book that the author has written several before now, all extolling the virtues of Switzerland, I was not surprised. I was only regretting he hadn't chosen a cheaper country for us to likewise fall in love with. Still, all power to the author's elbow, as regardless of any other journalism he has produced from exploring the country, here he writes about one lengthy trip around the more popular parts with fresh and new-seeing eyes, helped by those who really were seeing it for the first time, a century and a half ago.