Port Maó

Port Maó is not strictly an essay, nor a history book, nor a conven-tional guide, but rather a kind of stroll that, through rich narrative prose, Josep M. Quintana invites us to take along this port, by the shores of which he has lived for more than forty years.

The author aims to show the reader this splendid geographical location through his eyes and the eyes of the writers and researchers who have described it, who have made it literature, or who have spoken about it throughout history.

The reading of the book invites the reader to walk through it, on foot, by boat, or simply with their imagination, to help them discover many of the aspects presented by this port, one of the most notable in the Mediterranean: the geological, historiographical, political, commercial and economic, literary, artistic, tourist, and recreational aspects, in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of what it has been and what it is today. We therefore present an original work that does not resemble any of the publications to date and which, complemented by abundant graphic information from both the past and present, we believe may be of interest to the general public and, in the future, become a refe-rence work.