Our reading area, called The Mirror of The Sea, contains a small library of the finest world literature on the sea in the original languages. Authors featured include Homer, Captain Cook, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, Josep Plá, Robert L. Stevenson, Pío Baroja, Blasco Ibáñez, Joseph Conrad, Ignacio Aldecoa, Jack London, etc.


We also stock the best first-hand accounts of seafarers such as Captain Cook, Sir Francis Chichester, Eric Tabarly, Julio Villar, Ellen MacArthur, Pigafette, Bernard Moitessier, etc.


The library also has books on the relationship between the Basques and the sea.