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To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on there, and, in Bogotá, it’s even possible to forget that war still ravages the countryside. This paradox of perceptions—outsiders’ fears versus insiders’ realities—drew June Carolyn Erlick back to Bogotá for a year’s stay in 2005. She wanted to understand how the city she first came to love in 1975 has made such strides toward building a peaceful civil society in the midst of ongoing violence. The complex reality she found comes to life in this compelling memoir. Erlick creates her portrait of Bogotá through a series of vivid vignettes that cover many aspects of city life. As an experienced journalist, she lets the things she observes lead her to larger conclusions. The courtesy of people on buses, the absence of packs of stray dogs and street trash, and the willingness of strangers to help her cross an overpass when vertigo overwhelms her all become signs of convivencia—the desire of Bogotanos to live together in harmony despite decades of war. But as Erlick settles further into city life, she finds that “war in the city is invisible, but constantly present in subtle ways, almost like the constant mist that used to drip down from the Bogotá skies so many years ago.” Shattering stereotypes with its lively reporting, A Gringa in Bogotá is must-reading for going beyond the headlines about the drug war and bloody conflict.

Nicholas Coghlan arrived in Bogota in 1997. A political officer for the Canadian government, it was his responsibility to report on Colombia's complex civil conflict, lobby the Colombian authorities on human rights, and provide visible moral support and other assistance to the victims of the war. Soon after he arrived it became apparent that he could not fulfill these functions from the relative peace and security of Bogota and he found himself traveling to remote and sometimes dangerous locations rarely visited by outsiders - the coca fields of Putumayo, the swamps of the Darien Gap, the vast savannahs of the Llano - meeting with everyone from impoverished inhabitants of the barrios to guerrilla leaders, from human rights activists to military commanders.

Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Colombia will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Colombia, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für \"Eine neue Karte des Alto Choco (Kolumbien, Südamerika) und deren Grundlagen\" verfügbar.

A inicios de 1868, los vulcanólogos alemanes Alphons Stübel y Wilhelm Reiss arribaron a la costa atlántica de Colombia, la primera estación de su estadía en América del Sur, que duró hasta 1877. En el transcurso del viaje, compraron miles de fotografías, principalmente de ciudades, paisajes y “tipospopulares\". Estas imágenes constituyen la colección más importante de fotografías de Sudamérica de mediados del siglo xix. En este estudio pionero, los historiadores Sven Schuster y Jessica AlejandraNeva Oviedo presentan las colecciones de Stübel y Reiss por primera vez en conjunto y se enfocan en las fotografías provenientes de Colombia. A partir de ello, el lector se enterará sobre cómo los viajeros alemanes usaron la fotografía en su obra científica y para documentar su viaje por los Estados Unidos de Colombia y, además, verá quiénes eran los fotógrafos encargados, cómo trabajaron y cuáles eran sus redes profesionales. En este sentido, el propósito de Colombia. Un viaje fotográfico es devolver las imágenesal contexto en el que fueron realizadas, y por ello incluye no solo 160 fotografías de alta calidad, sino también dibujos, litografías, mapas y pinturas. Así pues, esta se constituye como una obra fundamental para el estudio de la cultura visual del siglo XIX colombiano.

To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on there, and, in Bogotá, it's even possible to forget that war still ravages the countryside. This paradox of perceptions-outsiders' fears versus insiders' realities-drew June Carolyn Erlick back to Bogotá for a year's stay in 2005. She wanted to understand how the city she first came to love in 1975 has made such strides toward building a peaceful civil society in the midst of ongoing violence. The complex reality she found comes to life in this compelling memoir. Erlick creates her portrait of Bogotá through a series of vivid vignettes that cover many aspects of city life. As an experienced journalist, she lets the things she observes lead her to larger conclusions. The courtesy of people on buses, the absence of packs of stray dogs and street trash, and the willingness of strangers to help her cross an overpass when vertigo overwhelms her all become signs ofconvivencia-the desire of Bogotanos to live together in harmony despite decades of war. But as Erlick settles further into city life, she finds that \"war in the city is invisible, but constantly present in subtle ways, almost like the constant mist that used to drip down from the Bogotá skies so many years ago.\" Shattering stereotypes with its lively reporting,A Gringa in Bogotáis must-reading for going beyond the headlines about the drug war and bloody conflict.

José Gumilla was integrated into an expedition of Jesuit missionaries who traveled to the New Kingdom of Granada. After studying philosophy and theology at the Javeriana University in Bogota he traveled as a missionary and later he served as rector of the College of Cartagena.