The author is a native of Sweden and knows the region intimately. Discover Scandinavia's pristine wilderness with suggestions on the best places to ski, hike, cycle, canoe and dogsled. In Sweden, half the country is forested and there are thousands of lakes. Northern Sweden has abundant moose, roe deer and reindeer.
This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great.
History is littered with cases of royal offspring who ascend to the throne totally ill-prepared and personally unsuited for the role of monarch. Christina, briefly Queen of Sweden in the 17th Century, was one such whom fate dealt a very difficult hand. No one seemed to regard her as suited to the throne at all her father would far rather she had been born a boy, her mother rejected her as ugly and her councillors manipulated and conspired against her at every turn. Yet she was a woman of remarkable talents and strong will who was portrayed on film by the great Greta Garbo. Sadly, Veronica Buckley's efforts to uncover her life are undermined by poor writing and bad editing.
Let "The Rough Guide to Sweden" shows you the very best this unspool country has to offer: from the style-conscious capital, Stockholm, with its magnificent archipelago, to the vast pine forests of Swedish Lapland. Spend a night in the world-famous Ice hotel inside the Arctic Circle or laze on the sunny, sandy beaches of the Baltic island of Gotland - Sweden is much more than flat-pack furniture and meatballs.
In the Shadows of Poland and Russia~The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden in the European Crisis of the mid-17th Century
This book examines and analyses the Union between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden signed in 1655 at K?dainiai and the political crisis that followed. The union was a result of strong separatist dreams among the Lithuanian-Ruthenian Protestant elite led by the Radziwi?? family, and if implemented it would radically change the balance of power in the Baltic Sea region. The main legal point of the Union was the breach of Lithuanian federation with Poland and the establishment of a federation with Sweden.
