Life on a Basque Mountain - My Life on a Basque Mountain

Life on a Basque Mountain is an inspiring - but also humorous - memoir of an English single mother who exchanges the comforts of suburban life for a tiny, isolated barn on top of a mountain in the Basque Pyrenees. Here, buoyed by the support of local shepherds, lumberjacks and smugglers, she builds an internationally successful business from little more than an idea on a scrap of paper. Effortlessly weaving historical research with lively behind-the-scenes vignettes of daily life, the book offers a rare and comprehensive perspective on all things Basque (history, politics, traditions, language, mythology etc), while threading into the narrative a rhapsody on the theme of identity. The book follows the adventures of an outsider: a single mother, linguist, cosmopolitan nomad and cultural chameleon, who paradoxically makes her home amongst an indigenous people deeply rooted in their land, with a language and culture dating back to stone-age times. Unwittingly, she repays their hospitality