Ticking Along with the Swiss

This popular book contains a delightful collection of personal experiences of English-speaking writers, journalists, translators, teachers and business people of many different nationalities who live and work with the Swiss. They record their impressions, wonder, perplexity and assimilation in essays, poems, anecdotes and letters. There is an A to Z on customs and foibles, a report of being in the Swiss army without knowing a Swiss language and many entertaining observations of national and l ocal character traits.