Healthy living in the Alps

Healthy living in the AlpsHealthy 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

This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry

online databases and nature documentaries

and oral culture

John Harvey

The first substantial study of multilingual film in France

Sylvia Grey

new translations

songs and oral legends of Native American tribes from around the country

both the film and television industries of New Zealand have been the source of significant achievements and cultural influence

Silver City

The volume offers new methodologies to approach the political aesthetics of the border and related issues such as borderland identities and border-crossings

attitudes and style