by Pío Baroja · ESPASA-CALPE / AUSTRAL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423902064
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«Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía», a maritime adventure novel by Pío Baroja, published by Espasa-Calpe in the Colección Austral as a paperback.
The novel narrates the experiences of Shanti Andía, a Basque sailor who in his old age reviews the fragments of a diary written at different stages of his life. Through his childhood in a coastal village of the Basque Country, his youth in Cádiz and his travels as a frigate captain, the work portrays his fascination with his uncle Juan de Aguirre, a former Basque sailor, and the nostalgia for a sea and a way of life that were disappearing.
Containing 269 pages in this Spanish-language edition, the book belongs to the series «El Mar» (volume 1), from Espasa-Calpe's Colección Austral.
Recommended for readers of Spanish literary classics and maritime adventure tales.
Pío Baroja y Nessi was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family. His brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja, son of his younger sister Carmen who was a goldsmith, was a well-known anthropologist.
