The Basque History of the World

"A lively, anecdotal, all-encompassing history of Basque ingenuity and achievement." — Atlantic Monthly From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod , Salt , Birdseye , and Paper —the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction—they are Europe's oldest nation without ever having been a country. No one has ever been able to determine their or