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Noray

by Juan Valbuena

Photographs: Juan Valbuena

Text: Juan Valbuena

Publisher: Phree

128 pages

Pictures: black& white and color illustrations

Year: 2012

ISBN: 978-84-940288-2-3

Comments: Hardcover with dustjacket, 200 copies, english, 10 X 165 mm

NORAY (origin unknown)
Nautical 1. Bollard, a thick post on a ship of wharf, used for securing ropes and hawsers. 2. Smallest possible port. 3. Juan Valbuena´s favorite word. 4. Book of travels through The Wide Frontier, a territory which coincides approximately with the Mediterranean Sea.

The Wide Frontier is a place with such a strong identity that it has become an intermediate continent within a space that assumes centuries of crossings where thousands of stories are told and hundreds of trips evoked.

The book includes different visual sources (contemporary images, old pictures, video and travel journals) to summarize over ten years drifting from Cadiz to Beirut, through mythical ports as Marseille, Naples, Alexandria and Istanbul...

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