#yann iv

[dustyspines]

I miss the gang and am obviously obsessed with how you write them, do you have any thoughts or snippets you’d like to share?? <3

many sorrys it took me so long to get to this but because it's you i wanted to put in some extra effort!!! so YES i have snippets and many thoughts so under the cut here i present to you: pinterest board screenshots and gang snippets from my currently unnamed (tentatively titled the dictionary) fic <3

karl. beloved. he's the sweet muggle-born hufflepuff who has an affinity to charms, specifically in the modification/adaptation of charms to make household items more useful. he works in a little trinkets shop in diagon alley where people bring in misbehaving items that need fixing, or to request an adaptation to something they need help with. he charms quills to write in different colours so those with colour-blindness can see. he charms teapots to chime when they reach the boil so those a little more forgetful don't set their houses on fire. he did a year's training the the misuse of muggle artefacts department before taking up the job, and it's the joy of his life <3

outside of work he plays the piano, he loves music and finding funky jumpers in charity shops that are to big but are cosy for all seasons. he loves animals, and his second best subject was magical creatures, but he needs socialisation with people more than he does animals which is why he's so outgoing and friendly and sickeningly loyal to his friends (to a point where he sometimes oversteps but it isn't intentional)

craig. another BELOVED. outspoken but respectful half-blood slytherin with a passion for football that he used to provide tactics for the quidditch team at hogwarts. he's the shortest of the group but is nimble and fast which is why nobody cares, nor does he. he likes coffee in a Proper way, and is very passionate about the brewing of certain kinds (a point of contention with yann who doesn't give af and will use instant coffee powder just to tease him). he works as a speech therapist/mind healer hybrid at st. mungo's, specifically working with kids with traumatic childhoods who need help with their speech before they go to hogwarts. he has a good base knowledge in both magical and muggle medicine practices so is usually the mom friend of the group, but he doesn't mind.

he likes friendship bracelets (because the kids he works with will make him loads of the thread-knot kind) and he forces his friends to go on jogs with him when he thinks they've been inside for too long.

POLLY beloved!!!!! back in school she started a student radio broadcast (thanks to karl's charms skills where he found a way to connect the gramophones/record players in the castle together to work without electricity). she loves music of all eras and is chronic for being a bit of a know-it-all. after school she took up an assistant position in the biggest magical radio broadcasting company and has been hosting the breakfast show for a while now where she plays a mix of muggle and magical music.

she loves rings and mismatching nail polish but the paint is always chipped because she's so hands on with everything. her hair is perpetually braided because she can't be bothered to keep tucking it behind her ears all the time. she has a slight mean streak and knows it but it always comes from a place of care because she just can't stand people who beat around the bush instead of being honest with each other. yann is obsessed with her n they've been living together since they left school but she pretends to be cool about it just so he looks like the crazy one.

yann <3 he wears glasses, he has lovely wavy hair. you'll never catch him dead in a pair of jeans. he's a pureblood from france who went to hogwarts because he'd been living with his grandmother in london since he was a kid and decided staying in the uk would be better in the long run. he works in madam malkin's as a tailor but focuses on male silhouettes, and most of the clothes he wears are made by him. his grandmother taught him everything he knew and he decided he didn't care enough about magic to take up a magical career, hence why he went into tailoring instead.

he has the whole tall and handsome and mysterious thing going on (he's the tallest of the bunch) but it's ironic because he's the most open of them all when you get to know him. super smart but you'd never know because he's very quiet about it. keeps secrets the best because he understand the value in having a person to trust and talk to, but gives the best advice so people don't end up upset. refuses to listen to any criticism of polly because she's always nice to him; doesn't realise it's only him she's always nice to because they're together. has big tunnel vision when it comes to her.

^ that board is just called vibes because it's just capturing the Essence. they start age 20/21 and it goes until they're 24/25, so it's a good four years of their life post-hogwarts.

it's very right where you left me LOL. friends break up friends get married etc. etc.

i haven't written too much that is super Finished, the doc is at 30k-ish words right now. but there are two Gang-centric scenes so here are some lines from those that i really like :)

aaaand that's The Gang. for now. it's fun to know where they're going to end up without really knowing how they get there.

[weidli]

tatort: gefallene engel // yann tiersen: sur le fil

in honor of the one-year anniversary of me watching this episode <3

[farawayfarleyfan]

abby is definitely trans, and while of course there are an infinite amount of ways she realises this (not counting the unhinged ones which are even more infinite) but i think i just came up with my 2nd funniest idea for how she realises it, which is that she gets jealous of how trix gets to be a "Cool Tgirl™" and tries to get in on this action by trying to fake being trans and coming out to everyone, who all wholeheartedly accept them, and of course, this then goes exactly how one would expect it to go. with her at one point going to trix to cry about it for so long while she stands there unblinking at what might be the worlds most convoluted way for someone to accept they are trans

[shiteatinggrin]

yo do any of you guys know about life of pi? its an insane book about a guy trapped on a lifeboat with a tiger

[rowrowronnie]

CRINGE ALERT!!! i feel the need to share songs i associate w/some of my fav dano characters sooo:

louis ives:

louis to me, is definitely a french enjoyer!! she loves all things french- the music, the movies, the art. i wanna believe she once had a dream of moving to france and living in montmarte, surrounding herself with a revolving platter of different creatives… basically living the dream of previous 19th century artists lol

i also think of her whenever i hear any sappy 60-80s love songs so erm.. (i am enamoured with her...)

• The Girl - Theme by Trevor Duncan

• Can’t Take My Eyes Off You by Frankie Valli

• The Lady In Red by Chris de Burgh

• Chanson de Delphine by Anne Germain

• C’est pas prudent by Alice Dona

edward nashton:

eddie’s stuff varies between incomprehensible noise, to classical music, to any song about obsession and love, etcetera.

i almost put she by tyler the creator on here but i held myself back because that song’s more incel type vibes, and i don't think eddie's an incel; but the stalker/voyeuristic stuff tyler goes into is sooooooo him, like actually!!!

anyways.. felt the need to mention that because it felt wrong not to, esp with a song so eddie coded

• Eternal Flame by The Bangles

• E[N]IGMA by Yann Robin and João Barradas (this is literally just discordant accordion sounds for 14 minutes and it literally works so well w/him, i love it)

• String Quartet No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 9 by Antonín Dvořák

• Bells (Excerpt) by Albert Ayler Quintet (this feels like his mind to me, i love avant garde jazz!!!)

• While I’m Still Here by Nine Inch Nails

alex jones/barry milland:

barry my love... a lot of the songs i think he'd like and also associate with him, are ones with beautifully lonely guitar stuff and lyrics about nature, mental health- basically anything with a melancholic sort of vibe.

i like to think he listens to music when he's camping in his rv, a window rolled down so the cool yet sticky humidity makes the car smell less stale.. the slight rustle of leaves, the shine of the moon in the rear window... y.. yeah.g..

• Parking Lot by Pavlov’s Pasta Dogs (honestly a lot of songs by ppd feel very barry coded)

• Help Is Round the Corner by Coldplay

• 2001 by Poor You

• Justice of the Hood by Dead Sullivan

• Moon, I Already Know by Mount Eerie

[fatherramiro]

ive said this about twenty times but the fact they didn't do chemistry reads for 1899 is wild to me because the entire cast has insane chemistry. im not just talking about the main pairings (though special shout outs to emily and andreas, mathilde and yann, and of course josé and miguel for having the best chemistry in terms of romance on the show) but also the series showcased that if you put any two actors in a scene together, they’d play off each other amazingly. literally no weak links in the cast, 10/10 where is season two

[i-sveikata]

Oh my gosh I loved Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat!! I'm so excited you like it too. If you have any other recs besides that one, please share! Also can't wait for the next chapter too!

yeah omg i LOVED it was so well done and im so keen for the next one. oh sure here's a list of some of my absolute favourite books in no particular order:

all for the game series- nora sakovic

the graceling series- by kristin cashore

mo dao zu shi- by mo xiang tong xiu

the binding- by bridget collins

iron widow- by xiran jay zhao

the folk of the air series- by holly black

the queen's thief series- by megan whalen turner

she who became the sun- by shelley parker chan

six of crows series- by leigh bardugo

red white & royal blue- casey mcquiston

a great and terrible beauty series- by libba bray

warm bodies- by isaac marion

the mediator series & 1800 where are you series- by meg cabot

the song of achilles- by madeline miller

captive prince trilogy- by cs pacat

life of pi- by yann martel

howls moving castle- by diana wynne jones

deltora quest series- by emily rodda

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the hidden universe- by benjamin alire saenz

educated by tara westover

all our shimmering skies- by trent dalton

the priory of the orange tree- samantha shannon

red queen series- by victoria aveyard

release- by patrick ness

dark places- by gillian flynn

the invisible life of addie la rue- by ve schwab

leviathan series- by scott westerfeld

im sure there's plenty here you already know but some of these i've come back to reread time and time again and others ive only just read and loved. lol but most of these are currently sitting in my bookshelf

[cardinalvalentino]

☁️ tag 9 people to get to know them better! ☁️

i was tagged by @belledamn thank youu ♡

last song: arthur plantagenest by tri yann

currently watching: ive been rewatching this way up, other than that im currently searching for a new show to watch

three ships: remarkableeeee honestly ship of all time. enjoltaire will forever have a place in my heart. last time i did this i said exactly these and then wangxian so lets try to say smth different this time. ive watched the terror as of late big fan of it and really enjoying fitzier

favourite colour: pastel blue

first ship: not something tumblr would be pleased to hear about. so lets go with percabeth

current location: in class deeply bored

relationship status: married to jesus

tagging: @fangedsaint @gotyouanyway @ahomeboylives nd @evakant if you feel like it <3

[freebooter4ever]

my music repeats playlist:

moral of the story - ashe (got no excuse for this one, sigh)

moves - suki waterhouse (ha yeah THIS one started my obsession with suki's music, also relates to someone i want to put moves on lolllll)

never been in love - gatlin (i think the general theme for this almost entire year coming up in october has been my general anger at love)

cognitive dissonance - sophie holohan (dancey dancey we wont talk about the number of times ive jumped around my living room to this song)

stay - gracie abrams (omg OBSESSED. look singing along with this song is an emotional experience. 'if i woke up with you in the morning id forget all the ways we were broken i dont care if youve changed'. yeah no this has been on repeat for months at this point)

wolves - grace davies (lmao pure dancey dancey, that beat, i am not immune to some country sounding nonsense)

till forever falls apart - ashe, finneas (IF THE TIDE TAKES CALIFORNIA, IM SO GLAD I GOT TO HOLD YA, AND IF THE SKY FALLS FROM HEAVEN ABOVE, I KNOW I HAD THE BEST TIME FALLING INTO LOVE, we've been living on a fault line, and for a while you were all mine, i spent a lifetime giving you my heart, i swear that i'll be yours forever till forever falls apart!!!)

new romantics - taylor <3 (the best people in life are free ;))

wish on an eyelash - malrat (replacement for the number of times i played Charlie on repeat straight, charlie's love is pure)

the chain - fleetwood (daisy jones has my entire heart. 'AND IF YOU DONT LOVE ME NOW YOU WILL NEVER LOVE ME AGAIN')

bonus: ive never been there - yann tiersen (i used this as my running song non stop the entire time i was in ohio, i have no idea why, ohio drives you to do crazy shit)

yeah my repeats are either songs i dance to or songs i sing along with loudly with themes of romantic at heart who has never been fucking in love 🤣 thanks @rimouskis for the tag! i tag @gordiemeow @the-real-ramimalekpeen @quietpainter @born-on-a-beach-teach @kreiderrider @artemistlbreadco

[tokyonymph]

goddess of the hearth & home: a hestia playlist

a playlist dedicated to hestia: greek goddess of the hearth, home, domesticity, family, and the state. featuring a mix of soft folk and indie music perfect for sitting by the fire.

[listen on spotify]

tracklist:

i. the earth prelude – ludovico einauldi ii. this house – japanese breakfast iii. milk & honey – billie marten iv. bind us all – the festival v. sons and daughters – allman brown ft. liz laurence vi. skinny love – birdy vii. cherry wine (live) – hozier viii. la valse d’amélie (piano ver). – yann tiersen ix. i see fire – jasmine thompson x. safe & sound – taylor swift ft. the civil wars xi. rose hip november – vashti bunyan xii. to build a home – the cinematic orchestra ft. patrick watson xiii. runaway (guitar acoustic) – aurora xiv. come home to me – léon xv. together we will live forever – clint mansell

[jkgnggj]

debated posting this or not cuz my art has improved a lil since the new year (i hope) and somehow i thought this was a lot cuter in my memory but now looking at it i can see a bunch of things I can fix and should fix so i didn't wanna post it anymore but !! it's the only torikei art ive ever drawn so i figured id post it anyways >///<

it's a piece i made for a new years art trade with @yeageryann <333 keitaro is an oc that belongs to yann, i just ship him and tori bc i think they'd be cute together, i mean just look at themmm

[dearest-angel]

The ones Ive read bolded behind the cut.

Note: I was an English major 20-something years ago. There are a few I haven't bolded that I think I may have read but don't actually recall if I did.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - not bolding this one. I OWN the complete works, I've read a fair few, but not ALL.

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis - why is this separate from No.33?

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

OK, so that makes 32 I can remember reading (even if I dont remember the story). Gonna say another 2 or 3 I'm so unsure about I didn't bold them.

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[formularunning]

Pedro Serrano, el náufrago español que sobrevivió 8 años en una isla caribeña: inspiró a Robinson Crusoe.

Espasa edita La mitad del mundo que fue de España relato dedicado a las hazañas marítimas de la corona española, de la mano del economista e historiador Ramón Tamames.

La fascinación de García Márquez en su Relato de un náufrago o la más reciente Vida de Pi, de Yann Martel, beben de un antecesor, un libro que sirvió para asentar los rasgos y narrativa del náufrago: Robinson Crusoe. En un periodo de expansión por mar de todas las potencias europeas, las malas condiciones del viaje y los peligros constantes en el camino, hacían de este tipo de travesías empresas muy arriesgadas, en las que el naufragio era una posibilidad constante.

Aquellos que sobrevivían al hundimiento y alcanzaban tierra llevaban la marca de la espera sobre sus cuerpos hasta que la casualidad atrajese a otro barco cerca de su posición. No es de extrañar que las historias de quienes después volvían a la civilización, ya salvados, alimentasen los sueños de miles de escritores.

¿Pero quién era realmente el protagonista de la novela de Defoe? La historia de Alexander Selkirk en 1704 alimentó a los tabloides europeos durante meses y se entiende como una fuente de inspiración directa de Robinson Crusoe. Sin embargo, hubo otro caso que dejó una profunda impronta en el imaginario colectivo, casi dos siglos antes.

El historiador y economista Ramón Tamames acaba de publicar La mitad del mundo que fue de España: Una historia verdadera, casi increible (Espasa), un libro que da buena cuenta de una época en la que la Monarquía Hispánica se lanzó al mar en busca de nuevos horizontes y territorios para el Imperio. Un relato ágil y entretenido que pone atención en episodios olvidados de nuestra historia, como la caravana de vacunas de Carlos IV o la historia de Pedro Serrano, el náufrago español en el que Defoe basó su Robinson Crusoe.

El banco de arena

En 1526, Pedro Serrano recorría la distancia que separaba La Habana de Cartagena de Indias, una región del Caribe repleta de atolones y pequeños archipiélagos. Serrano, de origen cántabro, servía como capitán de un patache, una nave pequeña con solo dos mástiles. Durante el viaje, una tormenta sorprendió a la embarcación, que no pudo aguantar el envite de la borrasca y acabó hundiéndose. Serrano, único superviviente, consiguió nadar hasta un banco de arena cercano.

El desolador paisaje se extendía unos cuantos kilómetros a la redonda, conformado por playa en su mayoría. Solo una pequeña franja del atolón contaba con la vegetación suficiente de palmeras y arbustos secos para poder protegerse. Un lugar inhóspito que recibiría el nombre de su más célebre habitante, el Arenal Serrana o Banco de Serrana.

La única compañía del marinero durante cuatro largos años fue la de las tortugas y cangrejos que llegaban a la arena. De la sangre de las primeras obtuvo bebida, usando los caparazones para recoger agua de lluvia y almacenarla. Con corales y rocas construyó una torre desde la que mandar señales a los barcos que pudiesen pasar cerca.

Viernes

Cuando se cumplía casi un lustro desde su naufragio, Serrano vio que otro cuerpo llegaba a la orilla, otro ser humano que había sido víctima de las tormentas tropicales. Asustados ambos de la presencia del otro, Serrano recitó el credo para demostrarle que era "buen cristiano", según los cronistas de la época.

El recién llegado, español también, convivió con el cántabro durante años, repartiéndose las tareas que les ocupaban en su supervivencia. Con la madera de los restos de otros navíos desafortunados encendían fogatas con las que enviar señales de humo; recogían marisco y peces para comer; así como tortugas y aves extraviadas. De la misma forma que Crusoe tuvo su Viernes, Serrano convivió durante cuatro años más con un compañero, cuyo nombre no sobrevivió hasta nuestros días.

Salvación

En aquel lugar apartado, los barcos rara vez pasaban cerca y los pocos que lo hacían no se aventuraban hasta el lugar por miedo a encallar en la arena. En 1534, un galeón, que hacía la misma travesía que el patache del español antes de hundirse, vio las señales desde la orilla y mandó un bote al rescate.

Ambos hombres fueron llevados a bordo y trasladados a España, un viaje que el compañero de Serrano no pudo completar, muriendo durante la travesía, antes de llegar a puerto. El capitán fue llevado rápidamente a Alemania, en presencia de Carlos V, que escuchó su relato sorprendido por lo ocurrido y por la enorme barba que portaba el cántabro.

El monarca, conmovido por la historia le adjuntó una pensión de cuatro mil pesos, una suma considerable para la época que creció con lo que ya ganaba de población en población contando su historia. Tamames en su investigación sobre el náufrago cita publicaciones de la época en las que se describe a Serrano como "animador de fiestas cortesanas" en las que contaba "la odisea de su supervivencia".

Una vez cansado de ser un "mono de feria", decidió emprender rumbo a Perú. Allí le esperaba "un retiro de 4.800 ducados otorgados por su majestad. Sin embargo, el cántabro nunca llegó a su destino y murió al desembarcar en Panamá.

Un Crusoe español

La fama de Serrano se extendió aún más con la publicación en 1609 de los Comentarios Reales de los Incas , del cronista Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. La suerte quiso que Daniel Defoe viajase en 1661 por España y Francia. La azarosa vida del escritor le condujo hasta el norte de la Península, que recorrió durante varios años. De los conocimientos adquiridos en ese tiempo dio buena cuenta en Las memorias de guerra del capitán George Carleton, una novela basada en la vuelta a Inglaterra de un capitán ficticio en plena Guerra de Sucesión española.

Defoe llenó esta novela de aventuras de detalles de la orografía pirenaica, dejando nombres como Tafalla u Olite desperdigados por el relato. No es de extrañar que el escritor llegase a estar en contacto con la historia de Pedro Serrano durante sus viajes, quizás escuchándolo en alguna taberna, quizás incluso cerca de donde nació el náufrago cántabro.

El lago español

"Pero a mí nada me entusiasmaba tanto como el mar, y dominado por este deseo, me negaba a acatar la voluntad de mi padre y a escuchar las súplicas y ruegos de mi madre", escribía Defoe sobre el sentimiento que el mar había causado en Crusoe. Un mar que como también decía el escritor americano Herman Melville: "Atrae a las personas".

De esa atracción se llenan las páginas de La mitad del mundo que fue de España. Su autor, Ramón Tamames, establece un relato histórico coherente sobre la historia de la navegación a partir de la conquista del Nuevo Mundo. Una epopeya con el océano Pacífico en su centro, el spanish lake o lago español.

Una época que tuvo capítulos tan interesantes como el de la Expedición Balmis, llamada así en honor al médico español que llevó vacunas por todo el Nuevo Mundo en una expedición de tres años. A bordo del María Pita viajaron más de 30 niños, portadores de anticuerpos, así como cargamentos de linfa con el objetivo de vacunar de la viruela a la población civil por todo el globo.

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