Duncan J. D. Smith - Urban Explorer, Travel Writer, Historian, Photographer

Summary:

• A comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 80 fascinating and unusual historical sights in Switzerland‘s
largest city

• Ancient walls, secret gardens, curious museums, converted factories, and shops with a difference

• From Roman Turicum and the Old Swiss Confederacy to the Helvetic Republic and the Industrial Revolution

• A most complicated clock, an elephant in the woods, the emperor’s paddle steamer, and the original ‘Dark Restaurant‘

• Coffee with Lenin, the forgotten Mrs. Einstein, in the footsteps of James Joyce, and a martyr to the Reformation

• Recommended for visitors to Zurich wishing to discover something a little different, as well as for inhabitants who perhaps thought they already knew the city

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A reader:
Your book has helped me see Zurich through a fresh lens.

Hidden Europe magazine (Issue 26, May-June 2009)
In a world where places seem to become ever more similar, it was an absolute joy to stumble on the "Only in..." series of guidebooks written by Duncan J. D. Smith. Each guide identifies 84 distinctive sights within a particular city. Duncan Smith brings to the "Only in..." series the gaze of the enquiring outsider. His approach to places and history appeals to us a lot. The ‘Only in...‘ series is a refreshing antidote to the prevailing tide of uniformity favoured by too many travel guides.

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