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The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond

Shortlisted for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.The Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers-and some 14 million people live among their peaks today. In The Alps, Stephen O`Shea takes readers up and down these majestic mountains, journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia. He explores the reality behind Hannibal`s crossing; he reveals how the Alps have influenced culture from Frankenstein to Heidi and The Sound of Music; and he visits the spot of Sherlock Holmes`s death scene, the bloody site of the Italians` retreat in the First World War and Hitler`s notorious Eagle`s Nest. Throughout, O`Shea records his adventures with the watch makers, salt miners, cable-car operators and yodelers who define the Alps today.

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