- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (6 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006473342
- ISBN-13: 978-0006473343
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 304,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Another moving and heart-warming tale set in Merseyside from the author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey.
In the early years of this century, many Basques left their homeland in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, to seek a better life in the New World. Most passed through the great port of Liverpool on their way. The family of little Manuel Echaniz stayed.
The Liverpool Basque is the story of Manuel’s childhood and coming of age in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands. It is a story of poverty, comradeship, hardship and generosity. Brought up by women while the men are at sea, Manuel grows up with a fierce pride in his heritage and a powerful will to survive in an era of deprivation and unemployment. Against all odds, he gets himself an education of sorts and sets off on the long voyage of his life.
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In the early years of this century, many Basques left their homeland in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, to seek a better life in the New World. Most passed through the great port of Liverpool on their way. The family of Manuel Echaniz stayed.
'The Liverpool Basque' is the story of Manuel's childhood and coming of age in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands. It is a story of poverty, comradeship, hardship and generosity. Brought up by women while the men are at sea, Manuel grows up with a fierce pride in his heritage and a powerful will to survive in an era of deprivation and unemployment. Against all odds, he gets himself an education of sorts and sets off on the long voyage of his life.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ever heard of people known as Basques? By the time you have finished and enjoyed this vividly descriptive historical account by Helen Forrester, you will be sympathetically familiar with these hard working proud people whose background spans many centuries. Lying between France and Spain, the Pyrenees is their homeland!
After a necessary slow start, we are soon a fly-on-the-wall surveying the Echaniz family, who left their homeland to find a better life. This seafaring family disembark in Liverpool during the first decade of the 1900's. A staunch Catholic family, they find a house in the poorer end of Liverpool where parents, children, grand parents, uncles and aunts live under one roof, each one sharing the hardships as the first world war breaks out and bearing the dreadful fear for their men at sea. A fear too often realised by Liverpool dockland families.
Among tragedies, Tuberculosis, meagre food and inadequate warm clothing, a genuine friendship grows up between the young Manuel Echaniz and another young Basque lad he meets at School. This friendship is to last a lifetime.
A wonderfully told story based on true accounts, and brought to life by an author who's talent for the written word opens a window for which her reader can observe with wonder at a past-time unimaginable!
After a necessary slow start, we are soon a fly-on-the-wall surveying the Echaniz family, who left their homeland to find a better life. This seafaring family disembark in Liverpool during the first decade of the 1900's. A staunch Catholic family, they find a house in the poorer end of Liverpool where parents, children, grand parents, uncles and aunts live under one roof, each one sharing the hardships as the first world war breaks out and bearing the dreadful fear for their men at sea. A fear too often realised by Liverpool dockland families.
Among tragedies, Tuberculosis, meagre food and inadequate warm clothing, a genuine friendship grows up between the young Manuel Echaniz and another young Basque lad he meets at School. This friendship is to last a lifetime.
A wonderfully told story based on true accounts, and brought to life by an author who's talent for the written word opens a window for which her reader can observe with wonder at a past-time unimaginable!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A story that appeals to my heart
10 April 2001
Format:Hardcover
If you love stories that are based on humanity and the trials and triumphs of life, but most of all you just love a good read, then don't pass this book up. Helen Forrester is so perceptive to human nature, but her true talent is expressing it through her characters, making them live in your mind. This story is based in Liverpool, but you really become enveloped in the rich Basque culture. What this family experiences through the Great Depression, WW2 and beyond made me appreciate their lives, and my own. Truly, my words can't justify the greatness of this book. I also highly recommend Ms. Forrester's own accounts of her childhood and youth growing up painfully poor in Liverpool - they are truly stunning.
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