Talk 'Mar de fons: voyages and expeditions The Arabs and the sea, behind the legend of Sinbad’, with Jordi Esteva
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Schedule
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Dilluns |
a les 18.30 h |
Entrada Gratuïta |
Biblioteca Les Corts - Miquel Llongueras
- Address:
- Travessera de les Corts, 58
- District:
- Les Corts
- Neighborhood:
- la Maternitat i Sant Ramon
- City:
- Barcelona
With Jordi Esteva, writer, photographer and film maker.
For centuries, Arab traders sailed across the Indian Ocean in great merchant ships driven by monsoon winds. From Arabia they would take salted fish, leather, wool, rugs, dried limes, dates and once they reached the coasts of China and India, they would exchange them for porcelain, silk and spices. When the wind changed direction, months later, they would sail to East Africa, from the Horn of Africa to present-day Mozambique, from where they would take wild animal skins, precious woods or slaves. Writer and photographer Jordi Esteva has travelled on numerous occasions to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in search of the memory of these Arab sailors following the legend of Sinbad.