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 (A Practical Introduction) by Alan R. King

Basque Nationalism by Stanley G. Payne

Basque Violence (Metaphor and Sacrament) by Joseba Zulaika

The (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 (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