About the Cover Illustration
The figure on the cover of Amazon Web Services in Action is captioned “Paysan du Canton de Lucerne,” or a peasant from the canton of Lucerne in central Switzerland. The illustration is taken from a collection of dress costumes from various countries by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810), titled Costumes de Différent Pays, published in France in 1797. Each illustration is finely drawn and colored by hand.
The rich variety of Grasset de Saint--Sauveur’s collection reminds us vividly of how culturally apart the world’s towns and regions were just 200 years ago. Isolated from each other, people spoke different dialects and languages. In the streets or in the countryside, it was easy to identify where they ...
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