A captivating new book from Wade Davis --award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade--that brings vividly to life the Story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia\'s complex past, present, and future Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free.
In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia..
In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
About author(s): WADE Davis is the author of twenty books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, which won the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top award for literary nonfiction in the English language.
At once an absorbing adventure and an inspiring tale of hope and redemption, Magdalena Braids together memoir, history, and journalism to tell the epic Story of Colombia.
And yet, always, it returns as a River of life.
Both a corridor of commerce and a fountain of culture, the wellspring of Colombian music, literature, poetry, and prayer, the Magdalena has served in dark times as the graveyard of the nation.
Only in Colombia can a traveler wash ashore in a coastal desert, follow waterways through wetlands as wide as the sky, ascend narrow tracks through dense tropical forests, and reach verdant Andean valleys rising to soaring ice-clad summits.
Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet.
Now in a masterly new book, Davis tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the River that made possible the nation.
For Wade Davis , it was Colombia.
A captivating new book from Wade Davis --award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade--that brings vividly to life the Story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia\'s complex past, present, and future Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free
