Larry Yaskiel’s book ‘The British Connection with Lanzarote’ was presented at Playa Blanca

Larry Yaskiel, accompanied by Mario Ferrer, responsible of Ediciones Remotas and in charge of translating his speech into Spanish, presented ‘The British Connection with Lanzarote’ through brushstrokes on the book beginning with the conquest of the Normans to the Canary Islands in 1,402 and the arrival with them Anglo-Normans and English gentlemen.

Larry Yaskiel, in 1985, searched for documentation in the British Library of London on that first link of the Canary Islands and the British Isles. The writer also examined in Playa Blanca the link between the Normans and the Genoese navigator Lanzarotto Molocello, from which Lanzarote takes its name.

The following centuries were marked by the rivalry between England and Spain in the control of routes and business with America, in such a way that there were several naval attacks that the Canary Islands suffered at the hands of English navigators, however, as they were decreasing maritime hostilities began to flourish commercial relations, which have been very intense in recent centuries in various sectors: wine, fruit, shipping, industry and, of course, tourism.

Yaskiel reviewed the British connection with Lanzarote and the Canary Islands between the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries and how the evolution of his literary, commercial and especially tourist relations has been during so many years, with the British market heading the number of visits to the Islands, without losing sight of the relations accentuated by the coexistence of British citizens in the Canary Islands with first and second residence in the Islands. In Lanzarote currently live about 6,000 Britons, of which 1,665 reside in the municipality of Yaiza.