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    ‘Magdalena’ meanders enjoyably down Colombia’s largest river

    Jul 16, 2020 3 minutes

    You can’t read Wade Davis without thinking of Joseph Conrad’s fictional narrator, Charles Marlow, as the two men share the same fascination for adventure into terra incognita. “Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration,” reminisces Marlow in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” 

    But that’s where their commonality ends. Where Marlow describes the wild and remote places and peoples of

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