"The Nobel prize Camilo José Cela, a descendant of the English corsairs of the Trulock family, outlines in this book the history of some of the people whose lives and deaths revolve around the sea.
Complementing his words, a series of hard, yet beautiful images - evocative of Galicia, of whales, of Mallorca, of fishermen and oil tankers, of shipwrecks and smugglers - illustrate this book, an offering from the writer to the sea and its people".