Michael Jacobs's top 10 Colombian stories
The author recommends books to better understand a country whose traumatic history is balanced by life-affirming exuberance
Michael JacobsWed 5 Dec 2012 13.01 GMT
Alife-long passion for the Hispanic world first led me to Colombia, together with a fascination with the early explorers of the New World, from the conquistadors to the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt. The latter conveyed for me a sense of wonder and awe I would later find in the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, whose novels encouraged my belief in travel literature as a poetic transformation of reality.
