Postcards from the Basque Country

by Beth Nelson

A travel guide and a journal of one traveler's journey, here is an intimate look at a singular place. The record of a four-month stay in the Basque Country, traveling from Biarritz to Bilboa, Postcards is anecdotal and inspirational. Written as if it were a series of postcards and letters from the author to the reader, this book immediately engages readers as they are drawn into the experience of the journey.
Postcards celebrates both the ordinary and the extraordinary and looks at the familiar in the foreign. Nelson's writings cover various aspects of events and terrain in this fascinating and romantic region-covering topics specific and abstract, such Dreams, the Sea, the Heart, Parades and Fiestas,
and Food.

Genres: Travel

104 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1999

Reviews

[Tamara Santos · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked up this book because it looked promising as a short travelogue. The Basque region is of interest, and I’d recently visited Basque areas in Boise. It fell flat though. It wasn’t clear if the entries were the entire journal written during her trip, or just select passages (and if the latter, why these passages were selected in the first place as there was very little depth and a lot of repeated themes).

[T. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Completely whimsical. I love it for many personal reasons.