The Basque Country (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Excerpt from The Basque Country

T is a far cry to the days of the eighteenth century when every traveller, safely returned from the grand tour in posting-chaise and diligence, felt'it his duty to write his personal impressions of the journey. To-day the whole world travels, and description savours of impertinence. We expect everyone to have seen at least as much as we have seen. Yet, strangely enough, though the Basque country is within a well-travelled zone, no single book can be found in English to answer the questions that the traveller, charmed and interested by this little people, is sure to ask. This, then, is our excuse for adding one more to the already long list of place-books, that while we can claim no pretension to special knowledge of a subject which has long proved one of dissension to the learned, we yet hope to give some information and pleasure to the traveller who, like ourselves, may come to this fascinating country.

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