Literary places in Magdalena River

The General in His Labyrinth

Gabriel García Márquez

The last months of Simón Bolívar, in 1830, as the sick and disillusioned Liberator makes his final journey out of Bogotá and down the Magdalena River toward the sea and death, his dream of a united Spanish America in ruins. García Márquez follows the real route: the descent from Bogotá to the river port of Honda, the long boat journey down the great Magdalena, the colonial town of Mompox, and the hacienda at Santa Marta where he dies.

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