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Healthy Living in the Alps - The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914 (Paperback) Loot Price: R674
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Healthy Living in the Alps - The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914 (Paperback): Susan Barton

Healthy Living in the Alps - The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914 (Paperback)

Susan Barton

Series: Studies in Popular Culture

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Healthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism. The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and were encouraged to take outdoor exercise as part of their cure regime. They also had healthy visitors and companions who sought recreation while the invalids were resting as part of the sanatoria routine. Demonstrating that this is not just part of the history of Switzerland but of Britain too, biographical backgrounds of British visitors to the resorts give depth and context to a history of health and winter sports tourism by looking at the kind of people who would spend months of the year in the Alps. A discussion of the application of modern technologies creates an overall view of the growth of health and sports tourism in Switzerland. -- .

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Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Studies in Popular Culture
Release date: June 2014
First published: 2008
Authors: Susan Barton
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-9565-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Winter sports > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN: 0-7190-9565-4
Barcode: 9780719095658

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