Lying some thirty miles off the Dalmatian coast, the Croatian
island of Vis has a long and dramatic history bound up with various
European empires, from Ancient Greece and Rome through the Venetian
Republic and Austria-Hungary to fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in
the twentieth century. For forty years in the latter half of that
century it was a closed military base. Today the islands 4,000
inhabitants try to strike a balance between their traditional
agricultural livelihood and the pressures and temptations of
European tourism in an age of globalization. This book tells the
story of how a group of distinctly average cricketers became
unlikely sporting ambassadors and, quite by accident, helped
re-introduce an island to its forgotten past.
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