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1 online resource (xv, 144, [22] pages) : illustrations |
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The Basque series |
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Basque series
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Author's Note; 1. A Flight of Doves; 2. Words; 3. On Market Day; 4. Common Goal; 5. The Fishing Fleet; 6. Law; 7. Invaders; 8. Tree of Gernika; 9. Tragedy; 10. Weakness; 11. Fête Dieu in Iholdy; 12. Basque Troubadours; 13. Good and Evil Joust on a Wine Glass; 14. Contrabandiers; 15. Frills and Fancy; 16. High Mountain Chapel; 17. Curiosity; 18. The Pilgrimage; 19. A Mean Woman; 20. Open Doors; 21. High Country / Low Country; 22. The Priest at Arneguy; 23. An Auction; 24. Duty; 25. Sorgina; 26. Work; 27. The German Occupation |
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28. Penance for a Collaborator29. The Street of the Americans; 30. Reputation; 31. A Lion Tamer; 32. The Village Gossip; 33. Let It Go By; 34. Pantasha; 35. Bohèmes; 36. Arretalepho; 37. Drink; 38. The Brotherhood of Shepherds; 39. The Basque Character; 40. Fishwives; 41. The Wind and the Rain; 42. Dawn; 43. Station; 44. Marriage; 45. Winter; 46. Contraband: Matching Wits and Wiles; 47. Old Woman's Admonition; 48. Neither a Basque Heart nor Song; 49. Old Woman with a Car; 50. A Diffusion of Light; 51. The Man at Aldudes; 52. The Land Is Their Life; 53. Equality; 54. A Complicated Transaction |
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55. Village Churchyards56. A Bargain with the Devil; 57. Pace of Life; 58. A Bond of Blood; 59. Betrayal; 60. The Founding Father; 61. The Grand Chateau; 62. Trust; 63. Duty; 64. Poor and Proud; Epilogue Agur |
| Summary |
"In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could about the ancient and mysterious people from whom he was descended and about the country from which his parents came. Thanks to his Basque surname and a wide network of family connections, Laxalt was able to penetrate the traditional reserve of the Basques in a way that outsiders rarely can." "Based on Laxalt's personal journals of this and a later sojourn in 1965, The Land of My Fathers is a moving record of a people and their homeland. Through Laxalt's perceptive eyes, and his wife Joyce's photographs, we observe the Basques' market days and festivals, participate in pilgrimages to remote mountain chapels, join their dove hunts and harvests, share their humor and history, their deep sense of nationalism, their abiding pride in their culture and their homes, and discover the profound sources of the Basques' strength and their endurance as a people."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Laxalt, Robert, 1923-2001 -- Travel -- France -- Pays Basque
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Laxalt, Robert, 1923-2001 fast |
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National characteristics, Basque.
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Basque Americans -- France -- Pays Basque -- Biography
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Mountain life -- France -- Pays Basque
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HISTORY.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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Basque Americans
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Manners and customs
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Mountain life
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National characteristics, Basque
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Travel
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Pays Basque (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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France -- Pays Basque
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99034731 |
| ISBN |
0874173388 |
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9780874173383 |
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