These unpublished chronicles of poet Josep Maria Sala-Valldaura, dating from 1969 to 1984, roam a Mediterranean that embraces from Turkey and Iraq to Tunisia and Morocco, but also Italy, Greece and the Balearics, and they do so with the perplexity ? and, quite often, ignorance ? of the traveller, with an open and congenial attitude. An exceptional look at the years of change through the prose of one of the great contemporary Catalan poets