The land of my fathers : a son's return to the Basque country / Robert Laxalt ; illustrated with photographs by Joyce Laxalt.
Material type: TextSeries: Basque seriesPublication details: Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 144, [22] pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0874173388
- 9780874173383
- Laxalt, Robert, 1923-2001 -- Travel -- France -- Pays Basque
- Laxalt, Robert, 1923-2001
- National characteristics, Basque
- Pays Basque (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Basque Americans -- France -- Pays Basque -- Biography
- Mountain life -- France -- Pays Basque
- Basques
- Américains d'origine basque -- France -- Pays basque français -- Biographies
- Vie en montagne -- France -- Pays basque français
- HISTORY
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- Basque Americans
- Manners and customs
- Mountain life
- National characteristics, Basque
- Travel
- France -- Pays Basque
- 1900-1999
- 944/.79 21
- DC611.B319 L39 2000eb
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"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.
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
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
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
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