num_pages: 184
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Land Of My Fathers: A Son'S Return To The Basque Country
titlecomplete: The Land Of My Fathers: A Son'S Return To The Basque Country
ratings_count: 27
publisher: University of Nevada Press