The Lords of Navarre: A Basque Family Saga

ISBN-13: 9780595662661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 432 str.

Josi Maria Lacambra-Loizu

Opis

An epic novel of breathtaking scope, "The Lords of Navarre" is skillfully conceived and masterfully written. It traces a Basque family's history from the last Ice Age to the present, an untold story of a people still speaking the haunting voices of its Cro-Magnon ancestors.

Lacambra-Loizu weaves a compelling chronicle of successive generations of Basque warlords who settle in the western Pyrenean uplands. Over the course of centuries, their destinies and fortunes become intertwined with those of Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, the Black Prince, Sancho "el Fuerte," Cesare Borgia, and Ferdinand and Isabel of Castile.

"The Lords of Navarre" is an authoritative, meticulously researched account of the Basques, their lives as early hunters and farmers, the dawning of Christianity in their land, their fierce battles to fend off Celts, Romans, Franks, Moors and Castilians from their beloved highlands.