Gottland : Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia

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Gotlands Marindistrikt – Visbyavdelningen (Vba) – 1931–1956" [Gotland Navy District – Visby section – 1931–1956].

The winner of the 2009 European Book Prize, Gottland has just been released in the United States, translated wonderfully by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.You’ll find 92 medieval churches – dating from the 12th to the 15th centuries – dotted around Gotland (approximately the size of Long Island). If you prefer wines, book a guided tour around Långmyre Vineri’s vineyard where you also get to taste some of their frequently sold-out wines. Prague used to be the capital of Bohemia, a kingdom that became hereditary in the Habsburg family and therefore part of the Holy Roman Empire. The city of Visby and rest of the island were governed separately, and a civil war caused by conflicts between the German merchants in Visby and the peasants they traded with in the countryside had to be put down by King Magnus III of Sweden in 1288.

A number of asteroids in the main-belt are named after places on Gotland or Gotlanders, such as 10795 Babben, 3250 Martebo and 7545 Smaklösa. Gotland prospered as a major trade center of N Europe, but internal strife between the Hanse merchants and local tradesmen weakened the county. It was a major training and storage facility for the Gotland garrison during its existence, and was still occasionally used for training by various elements of the Armed Forces since the garrison was shut down in 2005. Gotska Sandön National Park is the most isolated island in the Baltic Sea, located some 40 kilometres north of Fårö.Furthermore, if those who decide the allocations of the real and unreal are cruel, mad or colossally wrong, what then?

And unfortunately there are very little if no chances at all that Gottland will become a movie one day with, say, Leonardo Di Caprio performing Tomasz Bata, Natalie Portman putting herself in the shoes of Lida Baarova and Vaclav Havel starring as himself. They shredded my copy of T Although nominally belonging to Sweden, Gotland was in fact an independent republic with its own municipal law.At Katthammarsviks Rökeri on the east coast, you can create your own plate of piping fresh delicacies from the sea. Gottland is so new and inventive, it feels like a milestone of both journalism and creative nonfiction — and much credit has to go to the translator Lloyd-Jones and the publisher Melville House, who brought the book to the United States to begin with. You’ll also find plenty of micro-breweries – look out for Barlingbo, Hop Shed Brewery and Snausarve Gårdsbryggeri, to name a few.