Author : James D. Dana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1332191940
Route for a Month's Tour Through the Alps of Switzerland (Classic Reprint) by James D. Dana Pdf
Excerpt from Route for a Month's Tour Through the Alps of Switzerland By the route here described the tourist (whether man or woman) may visit, in thirty or thirty-five days, the points of special interest on the principal passes of the Alps, its grandest glaciers included, besides the lakes and much of the scenery of lower Switzerland. The plan in its principal points was laid out for the writer in i 860, by Prof. H. de Saussure of Geneva. Only the names of the passes and the prominent places are mentioned below, as all details as to excursions about each place, even to the names of hotels and expenses of horses and guides, may be learned from the guide-books, either Murray's, published in London, or Baedeker's, which is far preferable, and may be had in German, French, or English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."