The story of one man's vision to create a village in one of the most brutal environments in the world – the Colombian Llanos. The village would be able to sustain itself agriculturally, economically and artistically, demonstrating that if a community could survive here, then it could do so anywhere. Gaviotas is a book about people that dared to change their world, and in the process changed the world we all live in.
Author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller The World Without Us, Alan Weisman is an award-winning journalist whose reports have appeared in Harperis, the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Discover, and Orion, among others, and on National Public Radio. A former contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions and teaches international journalism at the University of Arizona. He lives in western Massachusetts.