Entertaining and instructive....he intersperses his political and military chronicle with lively anecdotes and digressions." —The New York Times Book Review. "By the time Mr. Kurlansky's lively, anecdotal, all-encompassing history of Basque ingenuity and achievement concludes, one is inclined to believe that all Spain would benefit if Basques were politely recruited to manage the country's finances and technology and otherwise left to do things their way on their home ground." —The Atlantic Monthly. "They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people," writes Mark Kurlansky. Living in seven provinces in a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, straddling the rugged Pyrenees Mountains, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction–they are Europe's oldest nation without ever having been a country. The Basque History of the World is the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Signs of their...
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Entertaining and instructive....he intersperses his political and military chronicle with lively anecdotes and digressions." —The New York Times Book Review. "By the time Mr. Kurlansky's lively, anecdotal, all-encompassing history of Basque ingenuity and achievement concludes, one is inclined to believe that all Spain would benefit if Basques were politely recruited to manage the country's finances and technology and otherwise left to do things their way on their home ground." —The Atlantic Monthly. "They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people," writes Mark Kurlansky. Living in seven provinces in a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, straddling the rugged Pyrenees Mountains, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction–they are Europe's oldest nation without ever having been a country. The Basque History of the World is the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Signs of their...