The Basque History of the World - Brossura

Kurlansky, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0676973663 ISBN 13: 9780676973662

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2001

Riassunto

"They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people," writes Mark Kurlansky. Settled in seven provinces in a corner of France and Spain in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, separated by the daunting Pyrenees, the Basques are a nation without a country, with an ancient and dramatic story that illuminates Europe's own saga. In prose alive with anecdote (and recipes), Kurlansky unearths the obscure origins of the Basques and charts their clear and remarkable contributions to world history.

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Recensione:

"This wildly informative work is a marvel of clarity, glittering with unusual facts and marked by penetrating insights into a people always making complex choices about the degree of independence that was needed to preserve their way of life." -- Publishers Weekly

"An accessible book with an encyclopedic sweep and a delight in digression. Like Cod... it's a fugue, with historical narrative and cultural study weaving through geography, myth mixing with social history and politics, cookery abutting commentary." -- The Globe and Mail

L'autore:

Mark Kurlansky is the author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, a Canadian and international bestseller. He is also the author of A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, and A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry. He lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0676973663
• ISBN 13: 9780676973662
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400