River of Dreams: Wade Davis

Wade Davis and Bob Ramsay

River of Dreams: Wade Davis

Wade Davis and Bob Ramsay

3:30pm

Thursday, October 29, 2020

45 mins

Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. In his newest book, Magdalena: River of Dreams, Davis vividly bring the story of the great Rio Magdalena to life. Journey to Colombia’s complex past, present and future, through this illuminating conversation.

Interviewer: Bob Ramsay

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Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. In his newest book, Magdalena: River of Dreams, Davis vividly bring the story of the great Rio Magdalena to life. Journey to Colombia’s complex past, present and future, through this illuminating conversation.

Interviewer: Bob Ramsay

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Wade Davis is the author of 20 books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, which won the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top award for literary nonfiction in the English language. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018, he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.

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Bob Ramsay is a communications consultant, writer and founder of the speaker series RamsayTalks. He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2015 and the Bernier Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographic Society in 2017. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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3:30pm

Thursday, October 29

45 mins

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