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The Basque Country by Paddy Woodworth, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Paddy Woodworth

Current price: $48.50
The Basque Country by Paddy Woodworth, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
The Basque Country by Paddy Woodworth, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The Basque Country by Paddy Woodworth, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Paddy Woodworth

Current price: $48.50
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Size: 33 x 137 x 470

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The Basque Country is a land of fascinating paradoxes and enigmas. Home to one of Europe's oldest peoples and most mysterious languages, with a living folklore rich in archaic rituals and dances, it also boasts a dynamic modern energy, with the reinvention of Bilbao creating a model for thetwenty-first-century city. In The Basque Country, Paddy Woodworth takes us on a sweeping tour of this enchanting land. We discover a small territory which abounds in big contrasts, ranging from moist green valleys to semi-desert badlands, from snowy sierras to sandy beaches, from harsh industrial landscapes to bucolic beechwoods. The book reveals how this often idyllic scenery forms the backdrop for a land of ancient and modern culture, where Basque poets still compose spontaneous stanzas in public contests and where strange age-old sports-rock lifting, goose decapitation-are still held at fiestas. Likewise, theregion has made important contributions to modern culture, through novelists like Bernardo Atxaga, sculptors like Eduardo Chillida, painters like Zuluoaga, and cineastes like Julio Medem. And of course Bilbao's flagship museum, the Guggenheim, designed by Frank O. Gehry, may be the best work ofarchitecture of the last century. Here then is a marvelous guide to the culture and landscape of one of the most intriguing places on Earth. | The Basque Country by Paddy Woodworth, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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