Hugh Thomson

She just keeps rollin’ along: Colombia’s Magdalena River

Like the Mississippi, the magnificent Magdalena has inspired songs, books and entire river culture, according to Wade Davis

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issue 29 August 2020

As Colombia comes out of 50 years of civil war and into a still precarious peace, with some 220,000 dead, this timely book explores one of the few dividends to emerge from such a terrible conflict.

Large areas of the country were isolated by the war, and so spared the ravages of modern development.

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