unseen Colombia

Geography is a mirror: every nation sees itself in its natural places. Here are a naturalist-photographers most beautiful faces: These are Andrs Hurtado Garcias best images of a half-century of looking intensely at the land that is Colombia; a wilderness tour that includes close photographic details like cryptic aboriginal hyeroglyphics on giant rocks as well as sweeping views of the alta montana. Hurtado is a South American Edward Weston a self-taught nomadic photographer. Here are the most exciting places he has discovered in decades of wandering: hidden beaches remote lakes and unnamed volcanic craters; the little-explored rivers of the Amazon; seductive landscapes of the Orinico. Naturalists and travelers will discover here a South America only Hurtado knows intimately: photographs that capture all the seductive landscapes of Colombia