The most incisive writing about Switzerland from the world’s most creative minds: from Tolkien to Tolstoy, Petrarch to Prince, Julius Caesar to George Sand. They wrote of wars and money, poverty and peaks, dances and prisons, wolves and fleas. “O Switzerland!” deftly weaves together over 450 first-hand accounts to paint a dazzling and disturbing portrait of an enigmatic land.

"2000 years of Swiss tourism: ‘O Switzerland!’ is an impressive and illuminating tour de force through time and space."

 -Wolfgang Koydl, bestselling author of Die Besserkönner: Was die Schweiz so besonders macht

Ashley Curtis was born in California in 1959 and became a Swiss citizen in 2013. He is the author of Irrtum and Verlust and Double, Double, and is the compiler of "O Switzerland!": Travelers’ Accounts 57 BCE to the Present from Bergli Books. From 2009 to 2014 he was Co-Director of the Ecole D’Humanité in Hasliberg, Switzerland