Books about the Basque People
The following books (except A Shepherd Sings) are in the Basque Series from the University of Nevada Press. For further information on the books please contact the University of Nevada Press at 877-682-6657, FAX 775- 784-6200 or write to University of Nevada Press; Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076
(I’m not sure exactly where this list came from but I am guessing that I – John Holte – put it together a number of years ago… I would also guess that there is now an email address for the University of Nevada Press…)
Arriaga, The Forgotten Genius (The Short Life of a Basque Composer) by Barbara Rosen
Basque-English Dictionary by Gorka Aulestia
Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary by Gorka Aulestia and Linda White
Basque Family Trilogy by Robert Laxalt: The Basque Hotel; Child of the Holy Ghost; The Governor's Mansion
The Basque Language (A Practical Introduction) by Alan R. King
Basque Nationalism by Stanley G. Payne
Basque Violence (Metaphor and Sacrament) by Joseba Zulaika
The Basques (The Franco Years and Beyond) by Robert P. Clark
Bilbao's Modern Business Elite by Eduardo J. Glas
A Book of the Basques by Rodney Gallop
The Circle of Mountains (A Basque Shepherding Community) by Sandra Ott
Contemporary Basque Fiction (An Anthology)
A Cup of Tea in Pamplona (a novella) by Robert Laxalt
The Dancing Flea (children's book) by Mariasun Landa
The Deep Blue Memory by Monique Urza
English-Basque Dictionary by Gorka Aulestia and Linda White Escape Via Berlin (Eluding Franco in Hitler's Europe) by Jose Antonio de Aguirre
Essays in Basque Social Anthropology and History edited by William A. Douglass
The Guernica Generation (Basque Refugee Children of the Spanish Civil War) by Dorothy Legarreta
Hills of Conflict (Basque Nationalism in France) by James E. Jacob
Home Away From Home (A History of Basque Boarding Houses) by Jeronima Echeverria
Improvisational Poetry from the Basque Country by Gorka Aulestia
Karmentxu and the Little Ghost (children's book) by Mariasun Landa
Korrika (Basque Ritual for Ethnic Identity) by Teresa Del Valle
The Land of My Fathers (A Son's Return to the Basque Country) by Robert Laxalt
Negotiating with ETA (Obstacles to Peace in the Basque Country, 1975- 1988) by Robert P. Clark
Portraits of Basques in the New World edited by Richard W. Etulain and Jeronima Echeverria
A Rebellious People (Basques, Protests, and Politics) by Cyrus Ernest Zirakzadeh
A Shepherd Sings by Louis Irigaray
Solitude (Art and Symbolism in the National Basque Monument) by Carmelo Urza
Sweet Promised Land by Robert Laxalt
A Time We Knew (Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland) by Robert Laxalt
Traditional Basque Cooking (History and Preparation) by Jose Maria Busca Isusi
A Travel Guide to Basque America (Families, Feasts, and Festivals) by Nancy Zubiri
A View from the Witch's Cave (Folktales of the Pyrenees) edited by Luis Barandiaran Irizar
Vizcaya on the Eve of Carlism (Politics and Society) by Renato Barahona