The Winter Book of Switzerland

St Moritz, Davos, Arosa and Grindelwald appear as colourful mountain landscapes in Otto Martin Müller's ski-resort maps from...

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St Moritz, Davos, Arosa and Grindelwald appear as colourful mountain landscapes in Otto Martin Müller's ski-resort maps from The Winter Book of Switzerland, published by Kümmerly and Frey in Berne in 1949. The book carries the names of Doré Ogrizek and Jean Godefroy Rufenacht, with text and arrangement by Hans Kasser. The maps concentrate on the terrain skiers used, linking the resort villages with their slopes and valleys, and smaller destinations in the Vaud Alps, the Toggenburg and central Switzerland appear alongside the famous names. Müller puts the shape of the mountains first, so the geography of a winter holiday can be read at a glance, and the plates record the Swiss resorts of the late 1940s before later expansion transformed many of them.

St Moritz, Davos, Arosa and Grindelwald appear as colourful mountain landscapes in Otto Martin Müller's ski-resort maps from The Winter Book of Switzerland, published by Kümmerly and Frey in Berne in 1949. The book carries the names of Doré Ogrizek and Jean Godefroy Rufenacht, with text and arrangement by Hans Kasser. The maps concentrate on the terrain skiers used, linking the resort villages with their slopes and valleys, and smaller destinations in the Vaud Alps, the Toggenburg and central Switzerland appear alongside the famous names. Müller puts the shape of the mountains first, so the geography of a winter holiday can be read at a glance, and the plates record the Swiss resorts of the late 1940s before later expansion transformed many of them.

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