Those travel notes were gathered and first published in 1988 with an introductory note by Natale Tedesco, accompanied by a dense body of images made by Ferdinando Scianna. A jewel of text and picture: the series gives new life to the suggestions of two great tellers of our time. Spain, a land geographically so close to Sicily, kissed by the same sun and washed by the same sea, cannot but become a way of living rather than a place to visit with the hurried eye of a tourist — a land rich in history, literature, culture and tradition. The ten chapters written by Sciascia and the more than forty images make the account absorbing, never long-winded and of remarkable anthropological interest. "The pleasure of travelling," Sciascia writes, "is that of knowing, in the places one goes to, no one or very few; of having no letters of introduction to deliver and no appointments to keep; of having no engagements but with oneself, so as to see without haste the things we wished to see, which as a rule, at least for me, are not very many in a region or a city."