by Germán Castro Caycedo · Planeta · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789586145367
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«El alcaraván», by Germán Castro Caycedo, is a nonfiction work about the history of aviation in Colombia (Planeta, hardcover, in Spanish).
«El alcaraván» reconstructs the history of aviation in Colombia through its pilots and the accidents that marked that era. The Douglas DC-3 occupies a central place: it was the aircraft that sustained air transport in remote regions, and the work also portrays life on the Colombian frontier.
First edition published in 1996 in Santa Fe de Bogotá by Planeta Colombiana Editorial, S.A. The work includes illustrations and maps.
For readers interested in the history of aviation, Colombian nonfiction, and frontier stories.
Germán Castro Caycedo was a Colombian journalist and writer. Castro Caycedo's topics revolve around the Colombian reality, under the parameters of the cultural identity and its social and economic phenomena.
