Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money
We all know that Switzerland gave us the world of cuckoo clocks, triangular chocolate and penknives, but how about the Toilet Duck, Velcro and LSD? Europe s landlocked island is a great subject for a cultural anthropologist and Bewes is a perfect guide.(Financial Times)Bewes has an engagingly light and comic touch. The narrative moves with ease between subjects as diverse as graffiti and recycling, and it s easy to dip in and out of.(Sunday Telegraph)"Informative and Entertaining."--Harry Ritchie,The Mail on Sunday"It's a real page turner, a treasure trove. Absolutely jam-packed with fascinating facts that really got me thinking." --Margaret Oertig-Davidson, author ofBeyond Chocolate"Everything you wanted to know about Switzerland, and then some. Not just a travel book,Swiss Watching is a no-stone-unturned exploration of what makes (and has made) this enigmatic country tick' --Peter Kerr, author of theSnowball Orange seriesof five books"A fascinating book, teeming with facts, figures, and anecdotes which even the Swiss don t know. A journalist, anthropologist and satirist, Diccon Bewes gives us a book that is serious without being academic and funny without ever falling into caricature." --L Hebdo