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Laughing Along with the Swiss (Paul Bilton) - Published in Switzerland by Bergli, this is an often side-splitting outsider’s handbook to the oddities of Swiss life. As Bilton points out, only the Swiss could ‘make the Germans look untidy and the Texans poor’. Some overly-worn clichés aside, there are plenty of amusing truths (or near truths) in this light tome.
Stamping Grounds: Liechtenstein’s Quest for the World Cup (Charlie Connelly) - Taking football as the centre pitch from which to launch a whimsical exploration of the little principality, Connelly has pulled off the remarkable trick of writing an engrossing account of this curious countryette.
Switzerland: A Village History (Paul Birmingham) - Birmingham takes a different look at the balloon town of Château d’Oex, tracing its history as a rural village, through the impoverishment in the wake of the Napoleonic invasions and back to prosperity in the tourist age.
Ticking Along with the Swiss (Dianne Dicks) - Dicks has collected 49 short stories on Switzerland by authors from as far afield as Australia, Canada, the USA and Ethiopia.
Culture Shock – Switzerland (Shirley Eu-Wong) - A curious and at times amusing look at how things are done in Switzerland, this book is part of a series and something of an etiquette guide.
Take Me to Your Chalet (Eugene Epstein) - The American-born writer has written several humorous accounts of life in Switzerland. A highly personal take on the country’s idiosyncrasies, his books also include such titles as Once Upon an Alp and Lend Me Your Alphorn.
The White Spider (Heinrich Harrer) - A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the account of a young climber and his ascent of the north face (the first ever) of the Eiger peak in 1938.
Little is the Light (Vitali Vitaliev) - The Ukrainian-born journalist in this book takes an almost serious look at various European mini-states, including Liechtenstein.
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