Joan Marín y Balmas (Barcelona, 1890-1945) was a businessman and a keen traveller. Educated in La Salle, he presided the Asociación Bosanova until 1993. In 1929 he wrote De París a Barcelona pasando por Honolulu, an account of his trip around the world by boat, that we publish in a new edition. It is the only book published by Joan Marín, who nevertheless gave numerous lectures and conferences about his journeys, and about exotic religions he came across and analysed from the perspective that his own deep religious sentiment gave him.