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Only a group of islanders mad about the islands could have concocted a book like this. The photographer Sebastià Torrens (Inca, 1964) andwriters Miquel Rayó (Palma, 1952), Ponç Pons (Alaior, 1956), JeanSerra (El Biar, Algeria, 1952, the son of an exiled couple from Ibiza) and Antoni Vidal Ferrando (Santanyí, 1945) have conjured up the fourelements that in ancient times were believed to shape the world: air,earth, water and fire / light, showing us, through these elements, the nature and landscape of the Balearic Islands. The extraordinaryphotographs by Sebastià Torrens of the wildlife and landscape ofMajorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera and Cabrera, sometimes so delicate and other so striking, are a manifesto in favour of conserving abeauty that only human stupidity would dare to destroy. And Rayó,Pons, Serra and Vidal Ferrando, with their poetic texts that emerge as the fruit of their radical status of islanders, allow us to share and admire the deep and unconditional love they all feel for theBalearics.
