Bruno Santurio (Xixón, 1972) He is a senior technician in Management and Organization of Natural and Landscape Resources, and a forestry agent of the Principality of Asturias. Passionate about the landscapes and countryside of the Cantabrian mountain range, this Friday he presents The Good Letter of Xixón “Where the mountains touch the sky”edited by Booksand in which there is as much nature as history, anthropology and ethnography.
Santurio makes it clear in the presentation of his work that it is not a mountain or route guide, but a travel book, and above all about travelers. The book covers more than two hundred years of stories from explorers, geologists, naturalists, mountaineers, hunters, engineers and many others who, for one reason or another, took care of the 480 kilometers of the Cantabrian mountain range and its inhabitants in the past, distributed in a strip that goes from the Basque Country in the East to Galicia in the West, also covering the mountains of León, Palencia and Burgos in the South.
Through the pages of “Where the mountains touch the sky” There are treasure seekers, wild beast hunters, reckless shepherds, ornithological princes and legendary mountaineers, as well as unusual stories, such as that of the man who made a granary sail, the English mountaineer who was wrong in his success, the French botanist who gave to smell flowers that erased memory or the extravagant English couple who lived in a cottage in one of the steepest corners of the Picos de Europa.
Far from the sporting and competitive outlook that in recent times accompanies the mountains and mountaineering, Santurio’s work is more related to the idea of geography as writing of the land, and with what was between the 19th and 20th centuries the look of romantic explorers at the Cantabrian peaks.
In the words of its author, it is “a tribute to the men and women who had to relate to the mountains in a much harsher and starker way than today.”
The Gijón presentation will take place at 7 p.m. and the author will be accompanied by the editor Ramon Villegas.
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