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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 which 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. In the process, he gained rare insight into the nature of the Basques and the isolated, beautiful mountain world where they have lived for uncounted centuries. 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, 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. Photography by Joyce Laxalt.
Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Author's Note
A Flight of Doves
Words
On Market Day
Common Goal
The Fishing Fleet
Law
Invaders
Tree of Gernika
Tragedy
Weakness
Fete Dieu in Iholdy
Basque Troubadours
Good and Evil Joust on a Wine Glass
Contrabandiers
Frills and Fancy
High Mountain Chapel
Curiosity
The Pilgrimage
A Mean Woman
Open Doors
High Country / Low Country
The Priest at Arneguy
An Auction
Duty
Sorgina
Work
The German Occupation
Penance for a Collaborator
The Street of the Americans
Reputation
A Lion Tamer
The Village Gossip
Let It Go By
Pantasha
Bohemes
Arretalepho
Drink
The Brotherhood of Shepherds
The Basque Character
Fishwives
The Wind and the Rain
Dawn
Station
Marriage
Winter
Contraband: Matching Wits and Wiles
Old Woman's Admonition
Neither a Basque Heart Nor Song
Old Woman with a Car
A Diffusion of Light
The Man at Aldudes
The Land Is Their Life
Equality
A Complicated Transaction
Village Churchyards
A Bargain with the Devil
Pace of Life
A Bond of Blood
Betrayal
The Founding Father
The Grand Chateau
Trust
Duty
Poor and Proud
Epilogue: Agur
An Album of Photos from the Basque Country
