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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
61, 1999
For the Bookshelf
by William A. Douglass
I would imagine that most of the recipients of this
newsletter have dined (and maybe even slept) in a Basque
hotel somewhere in the American West. We now have a
wonderful study of these ostatuak, their genesis, structure
and function at various stages within the century-and-a-half
Basque-American saga. If you have ever wondered who founded
the Basque hotels (and why), who patronized them (and why)
and what are their prospects then Jeronima Echeverria's
richly-illustrated Home Away from Home: A History of
Basque Boardinghouses belongs on your bookshelf. In it
the author takes us on a comprehensive tour of the Basque
hotels of California, Nevada, and Idaho. Along the way we
meet many of their fascinating proprietors, and particularly
the unsung heroines, or etxeko amak (house mothers),
who made the establishments truly a home away from home for
their largely bachelor sheepherder clientele. After reading
this book your next trip to a Basque hotel will likely be
your first, at least in the sense of a heightened
understanding and appreciation of a truly rich
legacy.
Available for $44.95 (plus shipping and handling
from:
University of Nevada Press/166
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno NV 89557-0076
(toll-free phone: 1-877-NVBOOKS
website: www.nevada.edu/press)
at a cost of $29.95 each (plus shipping and
handling.)
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