How To Academy event: River of Dreams with Wade Davis
The award-winning anthropologist and explorer, Wade Davis, shares his enthralling journey down Colombia’s Rio Magdalena – revealing its people, ancient past, and present rebirth after decades of conflict.
Heralded as a ‘rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all life’s diversity’ (David Suzuki), Wade Davis is the world’s pre-eminent living anthropologist and our most renowned documentarian of Indigenous cultures.
In 2015, Wade returned to the secretive place he had visited as a young ethnobotanist to discover a new present. Colombia was embarking on what had previously seemed to the world an impossible change: a life-affirming healing, spiritually and politically, alongside its Indigenous peoples; heart-warming portraits of unforgettable people; the beauty of forests, the power of the river.
He returns to the How To Academy to share his insights into a mythic place: the Rio Magdalena, the artery of Colombia. Wade has written a book ‘Magdalena: River of Dreams’ which is available for pre-order here.
