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Kartan ar en av dem baste som ja ha sett! Jag tycker att ni skulla upskatta detta vigtiga och fint exampel av nagon kartan nagonstans!

Having to read this book as a review for my studies I found it very interesting and easy to comprehend. Childs seems very intune with Sweden where his travels have given him many stories and experience.

It is a 170 pages long and deals with Sweden as being in the middle of two extremes, Capitalism and Communism. For years Social Democratic policy has meant a healthy living but this has meant increased costs in the way of high taxes.

In 1976 during a deep recession a new coalition government came to power on the back of the energy issue. And here is where Childs displays his enormous knowledge of Swedish politics and of the common person. It was also interesting to read of Sweden's neutrality during WW2 and the implications this had during and after.

In short a recommended book for anyone interested in Swedish and Scandianvian social and polictal history.

This colorful book is a very good introduction to Sweden. It is divided into seven chapters that cover everything from the geography and history of Sweden, though the arts, politics and everyday life of the modern Swedes. The book is chocked full of color maps and pictures, and ends with an excellent "Mini-Facts at a Glance," which contains a selection of useful facts and figures.

This book is very well put together, and makes a great introduction to readers both young and old. My one complaint against this book is that it was published in 1985, which means that in some places its information is out of date. That said, I would still recommend this book as a starting point for anyone interested in learning about Sweden.

These tales were originally published by Baron Djurkou in the 1880's, but Hippocrene Books Inc. has chosen to republish this translation by H.L. Braekstad, which was first printed in 1901. We are entertained by stories like "Lars, My Lad." These words call a little Swedish genie to do the bidding of a duke who has Lars build him a palace and thereby wins the daughter of the king who lives nearby. We catch a rare glimpse of the genie himself and of the wagonloads of shoes he has worn out in service to the duke and others who have called him over the centuries. "St. Peter and the Two Women" gives the same wish to two women, but there couldn't possibly be more difference in the way the wish is carried out--one woman is lucky, the other unlucky. But a wisher does to a certain extent make her own luck, and in "The Old Woman and the Fish" the old woman's wish brings her bad luck indeed. In "The Valient Chanticleer" a cockerell born to a poor woman insists he will marry the king's daughter--and does, once she has wrung his neck and turned him into a handsome prince. A very learned king issues an edict: anyone so learned he could stump king and council can have his daughter and half the kingdom. A farmer's son uses his native intelligence and his gift for making up words to stump the king. Typically Swedish, these stories and the rest of the 18 stories in the book entertain us with their innate good sense.

This is a terrific cookbook for anyone interested in Swedish cuisine. The recipes are clear and easy to follow, and they include wonderful tips and photos. The book also has a very nice summary of Swedish history and culture, and descriptions of the origin of the recipes and how they relate to Swedish life. Great fun!

For almost a hundred years from the middle of the eigthteenth century, a little-known and very beautiful art flourished in Scania, the southernmost region of Sweden. This was expressed in small textile panels that were mostly made for wedding ceremonies. Marriage rituals have always been of great importance to small communities, and for each wedding in Scania an extensive dowry composed of many kinds of woven textiles was created by the bride-to-be. The colours and the appeal of the designs remain as fresh and vibrant today as when these beautiful weavings were created during the high period of the art, over 150 years ago. Each textile is a work of art in its own right. The extraordinary patterns are not only of interest to collectors, connoisseurs and contemporary weavers - appealing to lovers of both traditional and contemporary taste - but also represent an authoritative design source. Swedish Textile Art is the first book for more than a decade to present some of the best examples of textile art from southern Sweden. The 95 textiles from the Nasser D.

Sir Peter Tennant was the Press Attache at the British legation in Stockholm, Sweden, during the Second World War. This meant his own taking an active part in the various efforts from the side of the Allied powers to sway the Swedish public in favour of their cause against Hitler. It also included countering the quite intensive Nazi propaganda in Sweden. In the same time, he also worked for SOE (Special Operations Executive), being involved in the blockade-running of industrial products, notably SKF ball bearings, essential for the war industry in Britain.

Sir Peter was in an unusual position to write this unique memoir as an inside outsider or outside insider in Sweden, at that married with the daughter of a prominent Swedish scientist.

Recent critical reconstruction of the history of Swedish foreign policies and politics during WWII, has depicted quite a number of prominent Swedes, both politicians of the time, and actors in the higher realms of finance and business, notably the formidable Wallenberg brothers, Jacob and Marcus of Stockholms Enskilda Bank, as part villains.

In the light of this, Tennant's book with its realistic, yet humorous description of wartime Sweden, is a most interesting supplement to that history. It is full of detail and names and biographic sketches of people, whom many of my Swedish countrymen and -women, who grew up during the war years, would recognize and remember.

For being written many decades after the events, the book seems to be remarkably accurate. The most zealous nitpicker would find little to remark on. There is hardly even one mis-spelled name.

The constant drama of the mutual stalking of each other's spheres of political interest, between the agents of the Axis and those of the Allied side, provides for quite thrilling reading. The interest of Tennant's tale is not necessarily limited to what happened in neutral Sweden in the see-saw of war action around that small and rather isolated country on the outskirts of Europe. "Touchlines of War" is as good a case study as any, for the ways, means and effects of psychological warfare and the competition for the souls of a reasonably innocent people anywhere in the world.

The book has a lot of good data. However, it seems as if the author may have rushed to get it into print, as the text wasn't as polished as it could have been.

In the years 1948-50, while researching the Swedish emigrants to the United States, Vilhelm Moberg wrote a number of articles for several Swedish newspapers. This book contains eight of those articles. Chapter one focuses on what the emigrants knew about America and where they learned it. Chapter two focuses on a fascinating journal kept by a nineteenth century Swedish emigrant, a journal that was apparently one of the cornerstones of Moberg's Emigrant series. The third chapter discusses what he found in a Swedish-American cemetery, while the fourth focuses on the Swedish language newspaper Hemlandet. Chapter five looks at the Church in America (he didn't like it much, but he didn't like the Church in Sweden either). Chapter six discusses what Swedes and Swedish-Americans know about either other, while seven gives his impressions on meeting some Swedish-American relatives, and eight is a rather unfocused explanation of how Swedes have fared in their new country.

The final chapter was written some twenty years after the other eight, and has an entirely different mindset. While he previously liked the United States, he now believes the freedom is dying there, and America is doomed to be a source of emigrants, rather than a destination for them. Finally, he expresses his opinion that American intervention in Vietnam will inevitably result in World War 3, waged between the unfree U.S., and the Soviet Union.

I enjoyed the first chapters of this book. Moberg's observations are quite fascinating, and speak quite clearly to me as an American of Swedish descent. Also, if you are a fan of the Emigrant books, then this book makes quite a fascinating addition, giving you great insights into the origin of those books.

The pill in this book is the final chapter. The first chapters and the Emigrant series were written in the 1950s, while the final chapter and A Time On Earth were written in the 1960s. It is obvious that his mindset was quite different by then (he committed suicide in 1973); his writing was rambling, with a decidedly pessimistic overtone.

So, let me recommend that you get and read this book, but that you feel free to skip the last chapter. Overall, I give this book a somewhat qualified recommendation.

Very thorough info on the early ABU line. I learned a lot of things, goes into depth, only wish there was more on the baitcasting line of reels. A lot of the info is in reference to other styles of reels which naturally is good for people collecting different styles. I only had wished that it had covered the 2500 line of reels more in depth. The info on the Record line, early Garcia line of 5000's, etc. is very good.