Joseph Zabalo shows us an exhaustive biography of the one who is considered the Basque nationalism precursor by many people. He is a mysterious and attractive character from the research and our own history knowledge point of view. Xaho, an antithesis of the Sabinian nationalism, a philosopher, a poet, a pamphleteer, a novelist, a journalist, a linguist, a folklorist and a historian was above all an involved political man and critical with his age which, like many others has been inexplicably and unfairly forgotten in history.