Switzerland with adjacent Italy, Savoy & Tyrol

Alpine passes, lakeside routes and mountain resorts are mapped in close detail in Switzerland with adjacent Italy, Savoy &am...

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Alpine passes, lakeside routes and mountain resorts are mapped in close detail in Switzerland with adjacent Italy, Savoy & Tyrol, the Baedeker travel guide whose editions here date from 1889–1913. The sheets cover St Gotthard, Pilatus, Grindelwald, Engelberg, Lake Lucerne and Schaffhausen, each concentrating on a single district rather than the country as a whole, so a resort can be read in relation to the valleys and routes around it. They belong to the touring culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and to the history of guidebook cartography.

Alpine passes, lakeside routes and mountain resorts are mapped in close detail in Switzerland with adjacent Italy, Savoy & Tyrol, the Baedeker travel guide whose editions here date from 1889–1913. The sheets cover St Gotthard, Pilatus, Grindelwald, Engelberg, Lake Lucerne and Schaffhausen, each concentrating on a single district rather than the country as a whole, so a resort can be read in relation to the valleys and routes around it. They belong to the touring culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and to the history of guidebook cartography.

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