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Bookends

Cantons and Cantonese

7 November 2013

3:00 PM

7 November 2013

3:00 PM

In 1863, the pioneering travel agent Thomas Cook took a group of British tourists on the first package holiday to Switzerland. One of them, a jolly young woman called Jemima Morrell, kept a diary — and 150 years later, English émigré Diccon Bewes has followed in her footsteps.

His Slow Train to Switzerland (Nicholas Brealey, £18.99)

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