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The Alps A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond ~ The Alps A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond OShea Stephen For centuries the Alps have seen the march of armies the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineersand some 14 million people live among their peaks today

The Alps A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and ~ The Alps A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond A perfect blend of travel writing and history OShea first showed himself a master of the genre in his 1997 Back to the Front and he continues here in fine style sharing an idiosyncratic and highly personal tour of the Alps from west to east

The Alps A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond ~ In the summer of 2014 popular historian O’Shea The Friar of Carcassonne traversed six of Europe’s seven alpine countries France Switzerland Italy Germany Austria and Slovenia he

The Alps a human history from Hannibal to Heidi and beyond ~ The Alps a human history from Hannibal to Heidi and beyond Stephen OShea Robert Fass For centuries the Alps have seen the march of armies the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers and some 14 million people live among their Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript

The Alps A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and ~ He explores the circumstances behind Hannibal and his elephants’ famous crossing in 218 BCE he reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture from Heidi to The Sound of Music and he visits iconic sites including the Reichenbach Falls where Arthur Conan Doyle staged Sherlock Holmes’s death scene with Professor Moriarty Caporetto the bloody site of the Italians’ retreat in World War I and the Eagle’s Nest Hitler’s aerie of a vacation home

The Alps A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and ~ A meandering trip through the history and geography and many many hairpin turns of the Alps from Switzerland to Slovenia although we dont see much of Slovenia The pace changes partway through as the history gives way more and more to the travelers tale which was more interesting to me


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