Switzerland

Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Switzerland
Kendall Hunter
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Paperback
Not defined - 200pg
1 Jul 2020 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781787028609
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Set aside your preconceptions of postcard scenery, chocolate, cheese, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is anything but bland. This small, multilingual, and fiercely independent country in the heart of Europe is full of surprises. Culture Smart! Switzerland reveals the human dimension of this enigmatic country. It provides a historical overview, explores Swiss values and attitudes, and looks at the cultural continuity of festivals and traditions.
Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers, - Sunday Times Travel the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries, - Global Travel full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas, - Observer as useful as they are entertaining," - Easy Jet Magazine" offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world, - New York Times.
Kendall Hunter is a Canadian freelance journalist, author, photographer, and entrepreneur. A graduate in Political Science from the University of Calgary, she has lived in South Africa, England, Wales, and Switzerland. Her first book, Black Taxi: Shooting South Africa, describes a year she spent working as a news photographer in Johannesburg during that country s first democratic elections. Kendall subsequently lived for ten years in Zurich. Married to a Swiss citizen and with two daughters in the Swiss school system, she wrote a regular column for an expat parenting magazine about raising children in Switzerland. She now lives in Toronto and is the founder and CEO of Culture Dock, a crowd-sourced global travel app.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781787028609
Published: 1 Jul 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Kuperard
Publisher: Kuperard
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200

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