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<\/a>This book report will dispell any illusions you might have had, gentle reader, that I have to actually read<\/em> a book to count it as a book I’ve read over the course of a year (unless you remember Hand Shadows to be Thrown Against the Wall<\/em><\/a>). This volume, unlike the hand shadows book, does have text. But it is in German. So I could pick through some of it, but not enough to get what the preface\/introduction conveys. Probably something about the history of Innsbruck, Austria, which is what the book is: A collection of photographs, probably sold to tourists, of Innsbruck and its environments in the early 1960s.<\/p>\nSo the images definitely have that going for it: Not only is it another place, but it is another time<\/em> in that place. The photos include old cars and fashions, but in a foreign land. It’s like watching one of those post-World War II Americans Abroad films (such as Three Coins in the Fountain<\/em>). Except with no Americans.<\/p>\n But the book does anticipate American or Britsh readers: Although the preface is in German, the captions for the photos are in German, French, Italian, and English. So I was able to learn what I was looking at, but not much of it was that helpful as I have not been to Innsbruck.<\/p>\n But, still, many old fascinating buildings in the 1960s. Mountain back drops. Actual cable cars.<\/em>. How cool is that?<\/p>\n Someday, I might actually want to travel to Europe. I’ll have to build up some cardio-vascular super strength, though. Not because I’m afraid of the Alpine heights, but because some of these vistas are breathtaking, and too much of it, and I’ll be flopping on the ground like a fish out of water.<\/p>\n Oh, and check out the inscription. In German. Sentiments from Europe in 1967:<\/p>\n
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