Magic Mountains: a Literary and Artistic Tour of Switzerland 2021
Magic Mountains: A Literary and Artistic Tour of Switzerland 2021 3 SEP – 23 SEP 2021 Code: 22128 Tour Leaders Susannah Fullerton, OAM, FRSN, Anne Harbers Physical Ratings Swiss mountains and lakes have attracted amazing writers. Explore places that influenced Byron, Shelley, Dickens, Twain, Conan Doyle, Hesse, Mann, Tolkien, several Swiss writers & fabulous art. Overview Learn about Swiss writers, past and present, familiar and unfamiliar, from literary expert Susannah Fullerton, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia. Susannah will be assisted by Anne Harbers, an experienced presenter and writer in Art History. Walk down mountain paths honouring Mark Twain ('Mark Twain Weg'), and Thomas Mann ('Thomas Mann Weg') and wander through the UNESCO heritage-listed vineyards of the Lavaux in the footsteps of Charles Dickens. Ascend Davos, setting for the Thomas Mann classic The Magic Mountain and the place where R.L. Stevenson completed Treasure Island. Enjoy a journey on the famed Glacier Express, and funicular and cog-railway trips up and down Swiss mountains. Visit the homes of Hermann Hesse, Einstein and Madame de Stael (the woman who terrified Napoleon!) Enjoy a literary walking tour of Basel (a town that has hosted Anthony Trollope, Patricia Highsmith, Thomas Mann, Stephen Crane and many others) with Padraig Rooney, author of The Gilded Chalet: Off-piste in Literary Switzerland. Take a day trip to see the Mer de Glace, the glacier that Mary Shelley used as a setting for the climactic scene in Frankenstein and see the Lauterbrunnen landscape Tolkien used in The Lord of the Rings. Spend a day following in the footsteps of James Joyce in Zurich.
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