How Basel changed the world

by Matthias Buschle, Daniel Hagmann

This book is all about events, discoveries and ideas which may have seemed small and insignificant at the time but later changed the world. DDT and LSD, Frick & Frack, the Basel Mission and the Zionist World Congress, Tadeus Reichstein and Friedrich Nietzsche, the first printed edition of the Koran and much else provide the stuff of which exciting stories are made in Basel, the hub of the universe.

140 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2011

Reviews

[Maria João · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s a small book of about people, inventions or events that either originated or are linked with Basel and had their influence in any way or form beyond Basel’s and Switzerland’s borders. I learned many things, but there was something off with this English edition: either the original German version has very weird sentence structure, or the translation is not great.

[Jenny · Rating 2 out of 5]

easy to read because short essays, but very bad English translation.