Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)

'Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)' is a novel that follows the story of a sea captain named Ulysses from his childhood in Valencia to his youth in Barcelona and his career at sea. His father, Don Esteban Ferragut, lived near the cathedral, where he found inspiration in the Middle Ages. When Ulysses was younger, he would join him at mass but found himself bored and daydreaming of the lush green of the orchard and the steamships in the harbor.