| Introduction: The View from the Junfraujoch |
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| Part One Landscape |
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"Wriggling rock conundra" |
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3 | (3) |
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"Badly-made lasagna, buckled in the cooking" |
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6 | (3) |
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"A terrible noise that frightens the neighbourhood" |
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9 | (8) |
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"The smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom" |
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17 | (4) |
| Part Two History |
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In the Beginning: Ötzi the Ice Man |
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21 | (3) |
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24 | (1) |
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The Celts and the Coming of the Romans |
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25 | (3) |
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28 | (4) |
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The Beginnings of Christianity |
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32 | (2) |
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The Holy Roman Empire: Castles, Dukes and Princes |
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34 | (5) |
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Liechtenstein: the Last Remaining Princedom |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (3) |
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43 | (3) |
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The Viscontis and the Venetians |
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46 | (2) |
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The Rise of the Habsburgs |
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48 | (5) |
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A Man, a Boy, an Apple and an Arrow |
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53 | (2) |
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The Creation of Switzerland |
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55 | (4) |
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59 | (5) |
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Switzerland after William Tell |
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64 | (4) |
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Missionaries and Monasteries |
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68 | (5) |
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The Monastery at the Summit of the Great St. Bernard Pass |
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73 | (4) |
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77 | (1) |
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78 | (5) |
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Napoleon and the French Revolution |
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83 | (5) |
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88 | (3) |
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91 | (2) |
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"Utterly careless of the fate of empires": Peasant Lift |
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93 | (4) |
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97 | (3) |
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100 | (3) |
| Part Three Imagination |
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The Ultimate Fairy-Tale Castle |
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103 | (5) |
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Immortal Ghosts and High-Flying Giants |
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108 | (2) |
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Religion, Magic and the Medieval Imagination |
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110 | (2) |
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112 | (4) |
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116 | (4) |
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New Ways of Seeing Mountains: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Albrecht von Haller |
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120 | (4) |
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The Sublime and the Romantic |
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124 | (3) |
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English Romantics in the Alps: Words worth, Byron and Shelley |
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127 | (7) |
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Mary Shelley and Frankenstein |
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134 | (2) |
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John Ruskin: the Alps in Art |
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136 | (4) |
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140 | (4) |
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The Alps in Nazi Ideology |
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144 | (4) |
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148 | (7) |
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155 | (3) |
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158 | (3) |
| Part Four Visitors |
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161 | (72) |
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161 | (2) |
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The Coming of Mass Tourism |
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163 | (3) |
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Lucerne: "out come the backward sons" |
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166 | (3) |
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"It is difficult to procure beds, food o even attention" |
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169 | (3) |
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"The luxury of tea may always be had in perfection" |
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172 | (2) |
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"The strange shifting of the compass" |
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174 | (6) |
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180 | (4) |
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184 | (3) |
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187 | (5) |
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Musicians and Artists: "that serene and glorious Switzerland" |
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192 | (2) |
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Tobogganing and Skating: "A new excitement to the lift of man upon his planet" |
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194 | (4) |
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Henry Lunn and the Development of Skiing |
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198 | (9) |
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The Monarch of Mont Blanc 202 Mountain Mania in London |
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207 | (2) |
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"Better knowledge of the mountains through literature, science and art" |
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209 | (1) |
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The Matterhorn and the Eiger |
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210 | (16) |
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"Those mysterious impulses which cause men to peer into the unknown" |
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219 | (4) |
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The Lake Geneva Smart Set |
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223 | (10) |
| Bibliography and Further Reading |
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233 | (4) |
| Index of Literary, Mythical, Scientific & Historical Names |
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237 | (4) |
| Index of Places & Landmarks |
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