'Maybe it was the best adventure I ever had.' - Manu Chao Colombia,
November 1993: A reconstructed old passenger train, bespangled with
yellow butterflies, is carrying one hundred musicians, acrobats and
artists on a daring adventure through the heart of a country soaked
in violence. The intention is to put on free shows for locals at
railway stations along the way: vibrant spectacles involving music,
trapeze, tattoo-art, an ice museum and, star of the show, Roberto
the fire-breathing dragon. Leading this crusade of hope is Manu
Chao with his band Mano Negra. Ramon Chao is on board to chronicle
the journey. As the train climbs 1,000 kilometres from Santa Marta
on the Caribbean Coast to Bogota in the Altiplano, Ramon keeps one
eye on the fluctuating morale of the train's eccentric cargo, and
the other on the ever-changing physical and social landscape. As
the papa of the train, he endures personal discomfort, internal
strife, derailments, stowaways, disease, guerrillas and
paramilitaries.When the train arrives in Aracataca, the real-life
Macondo of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Mano Negra disintegrates,
leaving Manu to pick up the pieces with those determined to see
this once-in-a-lifetime adventure through to the end. "The Train of
Ice and Fire" is a book about hope and dreams in troubled times. It
is about a father accompanying his son through an experience which
will change his life. But most of all it is about Colombia, the
flora, the fauna, the history, the politics and, more than any of
that, it is a book about people.
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