Majestic harbour that shaped history
A new book seeks to inspire new appreciation of Grand Harbour
The Grand Harbour has long been a place of extraordinary strategic importance.
One of the world’s deepest natural harbours, its location in the central Mediterranean has made the port a sought-after prize throughout the centuries.
On the natural grandeur of its rock faces have been built the fortifications of successive powers, all determined to bolster the defences of this country to repel other colonisers.
The Grand Harbour is so much more than can be expressed in words. And Miranda Publishers have come up with the perfect solution: a book of spectacular images by renowned photographer Kurt Arrigo, who, over three years, explored the majestic port’s details through his lens.
The images contained in the book – in Grand Harbour Malta – tell a story of a place that has been shaped by time but that has, in turn, also shaped history. The publishers would like the book to inspire readers to look at the Grand Harbour with new eyes and to appreciate it for the gem that it really is.
Grand Harbour experts Albert Ganado, Stephen Spiteri, Lino Bugeja and Joseph Muscat, were interviewed for the book, whose consultant editor is Timmy Gambin.
Miranda Publishers’ director Eddie Aquilina explains that some of the areas detailed in the publication, such as the breakwater, Dock 1 and the Marsa inner area, “will never be the same again. That is why Miranda Publishers have published the book this year. Surely, it is a collectors’ item”.
It is the first time in 21 years that Miranda Publishers and Mr Arrigo have teamed up to produce a publication of this calibre and Mr Aquilina noted that “it surely will not be the last”.
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