An exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombias Magdalena River exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk and how a country recovers from conflict. An American writer of Argentine Syrian and Iraqi Jewish descent Jordan Salama tells the story of the Ro Magdalena nearly one thousand miles long the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel Garca Mrquezs territoryrumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompoxas much as that of the M