This compact softcover volume is the condensed version of two much larger works - the Basque-English Dictionary and the English-Basque Dictionary. Prepared by two Basque linguists, this streamlined guide is an aid for those who need to translate between Basque and English.

The first volume in Laxalt's Basque family trilogy, is the coming of age story of a boy named Pete. Too prone to dreams, Pete undergoes his rites of passage - cruelty and kindness, disillusionment, love and terror, pathos and hilarious adventure - and finally, a cautious understanding of his world.

This text tells the tale of a flea who wants to become a dancer and the journey she takes to Russia to the flea circus, and the fulfilment of her dream. This is aimed at children and adults interested in the literature of an ancient European culture.

This text tells the story of Karmentxu, a child who is mentally ill, and a friendly little ghost. Fearing she will be sent back to hospital, she runs away with the ghost to a festival. This award-winning tale speaks to the hearts and fears of children.

During the 1920s, a rabies epidemic swept across northern Nevada, decimating wildlife and livestock herds. This historic event is the background for acclaimed writer Robert Laxalt s brilliant new novella. Set on a sheep ranch in the desert foothills near Carson City, Time of the Rabiesfollows owner Pete Lorda and his family and ranch hands as the epidemic swirls around them, pulling humans and animals into a battle against an invisible but deadly foe. Beginning when a roving coyote is bitten by a rabid bat, the epidemic spreads like wildfire through the local coyote population, and...

An intimate Basque cookbook peppered with family stories and photos and jam-packed with delicious recipes. Mary Ancho Davis invites everyone to join her at her mother's table as she recalls her family's traditions and history and shares special memories from her mother Dominga's kitchen. From huge cream puffs filled with heavy cream skimmed from the top of raw milk, to recollections of ringing the large iron triangle hanging from a tree branch outside the kitchen door, in Chorizos in an Iron Skillet Ancho Davis offers wonderful details about life and meals on her family's Basque ranch. When...

Brothers John and Mark Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, a story that begins with a few solitary sheep-herders and follows their evolution into the prominent ethnic community they are today.

When "Amerikanuak" was first published in 1975, it was hailed as both a pioneering study of one of the American West's most important ethnic minorities and as an engaging, comprehensive survey of Basque migration and settlement in the Americas. Its value as an essential introduction to the history of the Basque people and their five centuries of involvement in the New World has not diminished in the thirty years since, and it remains the most accessible overview of the Basque diaspora in the Western Hemisphere. Research for the book took the authors through ten states of the American West,...

For this comprehensive biography of Anza, Garate spent more than ten years researching archives in Spain and Americas. The result is a striking and important account of the Spanish borderlands and the hardy, ambitious colonists who populated them.

A Travel Guide to Basque America--the first-ever guide to America's Basque-American communities, their history, culture, and festivals--has been a best-seller since it first appeared in 1998. This new edition updates the original, listing dozens of new restaurants, Basque cultural clubs and events, and hundreds of Basque-related Web sites that have appeared since 1998, as well as adding new information about recent cultural events in the Basque Country, their impact on Basque-Americans, and new cultural and community efforts to preserve Basque culture in America. This is the essential guide...