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- catalog abstract ""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."--BOOK JACKET. "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.".
- catalog contributor b11333821.
- catalog coverage "Pays Basque (France) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog 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."--BOOK JACKET. "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.".
- catalog extent "xv, 144 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Land of my fathers.".
- catalog identifier "0874173388 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Land of my fathers.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Basque series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press,".
- catalog relation "Land of my fathers.".
- catalog spatial "France Pays Basque".
- catalog spatial "France Pays Basque.".
- catalog spatial "Pays Basque (France) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog subject "944/.79 21".
- catalog subject "Basque Americans France Pays Basque Biography.".
- catalog subject "DC611.B319 L39 1999".
- catalog subject "Laxalt, Robert, 1923-2001 Journeys France Pays Basque.".
- catalog subject "Laxalt, Robert, 1923-2001 Travel France Pays Basque.".
- catalog subject "Mountain life France Pays Basque.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, Basque.".
- catalog title "The land of my fathers : a son's return to the Basque country / Robert Laxalt ; illustrated with photographs by Joyce Laxalt.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".