Bocas de Ceniza -- Alto Magdalena -- Fountain of the world -- San Agustín -- Valley of sorrows -- Giradot and Honda -- The miracle of Murillo -- Medio Magdalena -- The forgotten land -- City of eternal spring -- Cauldron of war -- Sisters of mercy -- The nameless dead -- Morita of the manatees -- Bajo Magdalena -- The river of Cumbia -- Land of a thousand rhythms -- A great republic of nature -- The general and his labyrinth -- A geography of hope

"The award winning writer, photographer, filmmaker, and ethnographer--a longtime Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society--recounts an enthralling journey down Colombia's Magdalena River that illuminates the country's rebirth after decades of political violence, drug cartels, and guerrilla warfare"--