Jordan Salama

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2021

Jordan Salama is a writer and journalist whose first book, Every Day the River Changes, chronicles a journey down Colombia’s legendary Río Magdalena. His writings on nature, history, and culture in the Americas appear in National Geographic, the New York Times, Smithsonian, and more.

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Soriano and Beto, one of his two burros, set out into the Magdalena countryside with books for children who live on isolated farmsteads.

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Luis Soriano Had a Dream, Two Donkeys, and a Lot of Books

The schoolteacher’s long-running Biblioburro program delivers reading materials to children in Colombia.

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