The Alps

Fülszöveg

"designed, and execut'd too in Fury," thought Englishman John Dennis in 1688, gazing on the tortured crags and precipices ofthe Alps. In the face of "Nature's extravagancies," he was fiiled with wonder and awe. Wonderful and awesome the Alps indeed are -a broken barrier of snow-frosted peaks stretching across Europe from Francé to Yugoslavia. Within their ramparts huddle villages and farms from the Middle Ages, and winter resorts as new as tomorrow. In The Alps National Geographic writers and photographers takeyouon a lighthearted tour of the Alpine countries, vacationland for multitudes in both summer and winter. In Switzerland, country of William Teli and Heidi, you jóin the jet set at St. Moritz and tread pastures rich with wild flowers. You take a nostalgic walk to the end of an era in Francé on perhaps the last officially permitted transhumance - the herding of a flock of sheep to their summer pasture in the Alps. Stop for postage stamps and a mountain stroll in Liechtenstein,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"designed, and execut'd too in Fury," thought Englishman John Dennis in 1688, gazing on the tortured crags and precipices ofthe Alps. In the face of "Nature's extravagancies," he was fiiled with wonder and awe. Wonderful and awesome the Alps indeed are -a broken barrier of snow-frosted peaks stretching across Europe from Francé to Yugoslavia. Within their ramparts huddle villages and farms from the Middle Ages, and winter resorts as new as tomorrow. In The Alps National Geographic writers and photographers takeyouon a lighthearted tour of the Alpine countries, vacationland for multitudes in both summer and winter. In Switzerland, country of William Teli and Heidi, you jóin the jet set at St. Moritz and tread pastures rich with wild flowers. You take a nostalgic walk to the end of an era in Francé on perhaps the last officially permitted transhumance - the herding of a flock of sheep to their summer pasture in the Alps. Stop for postage stamps and a mountain stroll in Liechtenstein, and visit Neuschwanstein, Mad Ludwig's fairy-tale castle in Bavaria. After journeying through Italy's Dolomites and lingering at a fishing village on Laké Maggiore, you arrive in Slovenia, northernmost republic of Yugoslavia, to sip homemade plum brandy and visit craftsmen fashioning cow bel Is and pearwood pipes. Finally, in Austria, you spend Christmas with a farm family, relax to Mozart in the afternoon in Salzburg, and share the exhilaration of skirting mountain peaks by sailplane. In The Alps you meet peasantsand princes, joyous children, elders sustained by memories; probe the mysteries of avaianches; scale Mont Blanc's gránité walls. More than 180 color photographs capture vividly both the grandeur of Alpine vistas and thewarmth and fascination ofthe people who live and work there. Vissza