Basque Firsts: People Who Changed the World (The Basque Series)

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Throughout history, Basque women and men have made contributions in navigation, education, science, fashion, politics, and lots of other fields. Too incessantly these achievements have been overpassed, or have been claimed as the accomplishments of others. Basque Firsts: People Who Changed the World profiles seven remarkable Basques who were the first in their fields to do something—something strange—that had a dramatic affect on others who followed them. The profiles use primary sources to tell fresh stories and offer a wonderful variety, showing the astonishing breadth of Basque contributions. They include Juan Sebastían Elcano, the first person to circumnavigate the earth; St. Ignatius of Loyola, the first Jesuit to seed a around the world movement in education; Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Father of Neurology and a Nobel laureate; Cristóbal Balenciaga, the king of high fashion; Paul Laxalt, one of Ronald Reagan’s closest friends in politics; and Edurne Pasaban, the first woman to climb the world’s fourteen tallest mountains. Basque Firsts provides a rare take a look at a culture’s people, revealing the significant contributions they’ve shared.

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