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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
58, 1998
For the Bookshelf
by William A. Douglass
The latest publication of the Basque Series of the
University of Nevada Press has something for everyone. Nancy
Zubiri’s A Travel Guide to Basque America. Families,
Feasts and Festivals (Reno: University of Nevada Press,
1998. 555 pages, $18.95) lives up to its ambitious title.
With a fine journalistic eye and appealing writing style,
the author takes us on a step-by-step (state-by-state)
journey throughout Basque America. At each stop along the
way we are entertained and educated with personal anecdotes,
fascinating family history, and historical facts. By
journey’s end we have a comprehensive view of late
twentieth century Basque-American reality, particularly as
expressed in its hotels and restaurants, monuments and
museums, festivals and dance groups. We also know how to
order wines from the Rioja and sign up for a study tour in
the Basque country, as well as where to buy the best Basque
bread here in the United States. This is a book to savor in
your easy chair and to carry in your car’s glove
compartment when travelling anywhere in the American West
(although there is even a chapter on Basque activities on
the East Coast). If you buy it for someone as a Christmas
present you had better order two copies since you won’t
part with one of them!
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