Many books were important for this project, especially:

• The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf.

• The River and The Magdalena by Wade Davis.

• La Escuela de la Sabana* (The School of the Sabana), about a school of painting akin to the Hudson School that flourished around Bogotá in the early XX century.  By Eduardo Serrano.

• Landscape Painting Now by Barry Schwabsky.

• La Sabana de Bogotá by Juan Ramón Giraldo Arciniegas.

• Biographies of Humboldt, Mutis, Bolívar, explorers, scientists and painters.

  *The city of Bogotá us surrounded by a beautiful high plateau of cool climate where fog is frequent at sunrise and sunset.