The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

As well as an exhilarating travel account, The Robber of Memories is a moving meditation on the nature of forgetfulness and forgetting ... A triumph --Daily Telegraph

Jacobs s writing deploys a poetic ear and painterly eye to achieve ruminations akin to those of Coleridge wandering Lakeland... we reach the point that no travel book is supposed to reach, whereby the snake eats its tail: instead of breaking free into the wild he adores and does often find, Jacobs gives the lie to travel writing in this shrunken world conquered by mobile phones, contempt for nature and the plague of tourism --Observer

An utterly beguiling amalgam of travel journalism and family history --Spectator

Travel writing at its best... pulses with an elegiac, penumbral light --Independent

A profound and moving meditation on memory loss... Jacobs wears his erudition lightly, and has some amusing encounters along the way... Entertaining, touching and quixotic --Literary Review

Jacobs' literary skill and passion for all things Latin makes this a must-read for anyone contemplating a trip to one of South America's most neglected yet enthralling destinations. --Lonely Planet guide

A fascinating vignette, describing a journey to the source of River Magdalena. --Tom Chesshyre, The Times

The Robber of Memories is a spell-binding journey to the source of the majestic Magdalena river ... Jacobs is much more than a travel writer. The Robber of Memories is literary adventure that uses the river to explore memory, the way the mind is sparked by travel. But it is the sadness of memory loss, however, that lingers. --Colombia Politics

Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, the Magdalena. Considered by some to be the most dangerous place in the world, travellers along the river - for centuries the only route into the vast South American interior - were at the mercy of tropical disease, dangerous animals and precarious barges. A third of the victims of 'la violencia', Colombia's period of civil conflict which began in the 1950s, ended up in its waters. Townships alongside it have experienced some of the worst massacres in South American history. In 2011, Michael Jacobs travelled its whole length to the river's source high up in Andean moorlands controlled by guerrillas. In spellbinding prose, he charts the dangers he negotiated - including a terrifying three day encounter with the FARC - while uncovering the river's history of pioneering explorations, environmental decline and political violence. As Jacobs delves into the history of destruction and decay along the river, he also makes a deeply personal exploration into memory and its loss: not far from the river's banks lies a group of townships with the highest incidence of early onset Alzheimer's in the world. Jacobs reflects on the lives of his father, and his mother - sufferers respectively from Alzheimer's and dementia - as he travels upstream towards what comes to seem like a heartland of mystery, magic and darkness.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.