Stephen Armstrong 
The White Island 

The White Island is, and always has been, a magnet for hedonists. Its history reads like a history of pleasure itself. It is also a story of invasions and migrations, of artists and conmen, of drop-outs and love-ins.
The Carthaginians established a cult to their goddess of sex there, and named the island after Bez, their god of dance. Roman centurions in need of a bit of down time between campaigns would go to Ibiza to get their kicks. And over the centuries, cultures around the Med have used the island either as a playground or a dump for the kind of people who didn“t quite fit in back home, but who you“d probably quite like to meet at a party…
This is the history of Ibiza, the fantasy island, framed by one long, golden summer where anything can happen – and it usually does.