Only a group of islanders mad about the islands could have
concocted a book like this. The photographer Sebastià Torrens (Inca, 1964) and
writers Miquel Rayó (Palma, 1952), Ponç Pons (Alaior,
1956), Jean Serra (El Biar, Algeria, 1952; the son of an exiled
couple from Ibiza) and Antoni Vidal Ferrando (Santanyí,
1945) have conjured up the four elements that in ancient
times were believed to shape the world: air, earth, water and
fire / light, showing us, through these elements, the nature
and landscape of the Balearic Islands. The extraordinary
photographs by Sebastià Torrens of the wildlife and
landscape of Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera and
Cabrera, sometimes so delicate and other so striking, are a
manifesto in favour of conserving a beauty that only human
stupidity would dare to destroy. And Rayó, Pons, Serra and
Vidal Ferrando, with their poetic texts that emerge as the
fruit of their radical status of islanders, allow us to share and
admire the deep and unconditional love they all feel for the
Balearics.
Size: 18.5 x 24.5 cm; colourful pictures and photographs; in English, Catalan, Spanish, and German; hard cover.